Understanding various forms and types
- 1. Understanding Various Forms and Types CREATIVE NON-FICTION
- 2. PERSONAL ESSAY • A piece of writing, usually in the first person that focuses on the topic through the lens of the personal experience of the narrator. • It can be narrative or non-narrative, it can tell a story in a traditional way or improvise a new way for doing so. • Ultimately, it should always be based on true, personal experience.
- 3. The Memoir •Is a longer piece of creative nonfiction that delves deep into a writer’s personal experience. •It typically uses multiple scenes/stories as a way of examining a writer’s life (or an important moment in a writer’s life). •It is usually but not necessarily, narrative.
- 4. Literary Journalism • Uses the techniques of journalism ( such as interviews and reviews) in order to look outside of the straight forward, objective world that journalism creates. • It uses literary practices to capture the scene/settings of the assignment of the persona of the person being interviewed. • It can often be narrative or heavily imagistic.
- 5. • Another important aspects of literary journalism is that it often stretches the idea of “objective facts” in order to better reflect the real life and real people. • In other words, while journalism is about being completely objectiveness literary journalism says the people can’t be objective because they already have their own subjective views about the world.
- 6. •Therefore, by taking the “objectiveness” out of the journalistic process, the writer is more being truthful.
- 7. Lyric Essay • Similar to the personal essay in that it also deals with a topic that affects the reader. • However the lyric essay relies heavily on descriptions and imagery. • Lyrical suggest something poetic, musical or flowing (in a sense). This type of piece use a heavily descriptive, flowing tone in order to tell the story.