Creative+Writing

__ENGLISH 2116/2117 - CREATIVE WRITING__

**__SYLLABI:__** Syllabus for Spring 2012:

__ASSIGNMENTS__
 * __Poetry Assignment: [[file:ghc - 2116 poetry prompts.rtf]]__
 * __Fiction Assignments: [[file:ghc - 2116 Fiction Assignment.rtf]]__
 * __Review Assignment: [[file:ghc - 2116 Rvw Asgnmt.rtf]]__
 * __[|Purdue OWL's Guide to Writing a Review]__
 * [|Alan Sepinwall's Television Reviews]
 * [|AV Club's Book Review Section]
 * [|AV Club's Steve Heisler Reviews The Legend of Zelda]
 * [|A. O. Scott, Movie Reviewer for the NY Times]

**__Literary Magazines and Journals__**

 * [|The Georgia Review]
 * [|The Southern Review]
 * [|The Yalobusha Review]
 * [|New South]
 * [|Five Points]
 * [|The Gettysburg Review]
 * [|Prairie Schooner]
 * [|Dead Mule School of Southern Literature]
 * [|American Short Fiction]
 * [|The Kenyon Review]
 * [|The Oxford American]
 * [|Black Warrior Review]

**__ONLINE TEXTS__**
 * [|"35/10" by Sharon Olds]
 * [|"At Darien Bridge," James Dickey]
 * [|"Atlantis--A Lost Sonnet," by Eavan Boland]
 * [|"Daddy," by Sylvia Plath]
 * [|"Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg," by Richard Hugo]
 * [|"Grief Calls Us to the Things of this World," by Sherman Alexie]
 * [|"Homage to Mississippi John Hurt," by Rodney Jones]
 * [|"I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down," William Gay]
 * [|"In Response to a Rumor that the Oldest Whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia has been Condemned," by James Wright]
 * [|"Love Calls Us to the Things of This World," by Richard Wilbur]
 * [|"Maybe Dats Your Pwoblem Too," by James W. Hall]
 * [|"Night Song of the Los Angeles Basin," by Gary Snyder]
 * [|"Slam, Dunk, & Hook," by Yusef Komunyakaa]
 * [|"We Didn't," read by Stuart Dybek]
 * [|"wishes for sons," by Lucille Clifton]



__**Poem**__ Caili

**__Story #1__** Ch

**__Story #2__** Wil

**__Review__** Dav

**__VOCABULARY__** ** Alliteration ** : the repetition of initial identical consonant sounds, or of any vowel sounds, in successive or closely associated syllables/words.

** Caesura ** : a pause or break within a line of verse.

** Chekhov’s Gun ** : a literary technique in which a seemingly irrelevant element is introduced into a story, often early in the narrative, the significance of which only becomes clear later in the narrative. The concept is named for Russian writer Anton Chekhov, and is often seen as a means of foreshadowing, but can also be interpreted as an instruction to make all elements of the story relevant to the action/plot.

** Elegy ** : a sustained and formal poem the main point of which is a meditation on death or another serious theme. This meditation is often inspired by the death of a particular person, but it may be a more general observation or expression of a solemn mood.

** Encomium ** : a composition in praise of a living person, object, or event (but not a higher power). The encomium originally served as a celebration of a hero at the end of Greek Olympic games.

** First-person Narration ** : in fiction presented in the first person, the “I” who tells the story is the narrator; the narrator may be in any of various relations to the events described, ranging from being their center (//protagonist//) through various degrees of importance to being merely a witness.

** Flashback (Analepsis ** ): In classical terminology //analepsis// referred to a type of vision or trance in which something from the past or the unconscious mind is restored to vivid life in the present or conscious mind. In contemporary terms, a //flashback// is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story. Flashbacks are often used to relate events that happened before the story’s primary action or to give relevant [|backstory].

** Foreshadowing ** : the presentation of material in a work in such a way that later events are prepared for. Foreshadowing can result from the presentation of mood, events, or physical objects in the narrative.

** Enjambment ** : the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction of a line of poetry on to the next line or verse. Enjambment occurs in run-on lines and is in contrast to end-stopped lines.

** Peripateia ** : the reversal of fortune for a protagonist—possibly either a fall, as in a traditional tragedy, or a success, as in a traditional comedy.

** Personification ** : a device that endows animals, ideas, abstractions, and inanimate objects with human form and/or characteristics. This device involves the representing of imaginary creatures or things as having human personalities, intelligence, and emotions.

** Second-person Narration ** : in fiction presented in the second person, “you” is used to tell the story. Again the narrator may be in any of various relations to the events described, ranging from being their center (//protagonist//) through various degrees of importance to being merely a witness.

** Third-person Limited Narration ** : the author acts as the narrator here, but the scope of their narration, and of their commentary/insight into it, is, to varying degrees, limited.

** Third-person Omniscient Narration ** : the author again acts self-consciously as the narrator, recounting the story and freely commenting on it.