Creative Writing Vocab (21-22, 2nd Semester)

A recurring dominant idea or repeated piece of symbolism within a story.

A stereotypical and purposefully cliched character.

A series of events showing a theme or time passing.

An often quoted piece of advice that becomes cliche or not meaningful.

A character experiencing a problem or conflict with something like a creepy clown, a ghost, or a vampire.

A major subsection of a play (script). Like parts in a novel.

When Voldemort FINALLY got killed off and got what was coming to him after all the evil he did...

A character dealing with an issue like artificial intelligence becoming TOO intelligent.

Informal or everyday-sounding language.

Representing an idea or a feeling with something else.

A character dealing with something like a Sharknado, a zombie outbreak, being lost in the wilderness alone.

Secondary stories woven throughout the main plot.

A story meant to explain an origin (or part of a cultural tradition) that people know isn't true.

When an author literally TELLS you about a character (this is the more boring method).

A character dealing with racism, sexism, ageism, religious prejudice, etc.

Stories that may or may not be true, but are told as historical fact.

A perfect, almost dream-like world.

When something doesn’t logically follow what came before it.

A phrase made up of two contradictory terms.

When the narrator tells the story directly to the reader/audience (hint: you/your).

A narrator you can't totally trust because they are biased or crazy.

A character who DOESN'T go through an important internal change during the story.

A character dealing with an issue like a sword fight, a rival team, a student vs. a teacher.

The way a character develops over the course of a story

A character within the story telling events from their point of view (hint: I, me, my).

The use of “we” by an individual person instead of “I”

A reference to a book, movie, etc. within another book, movie, etc.

When two unlike things are close together (either written or visual), it creates cool contrast.

When a character talks directly to the audience or reader.

Experimental, futuristic, radical, unorthodox art and writing.

Fatal flaw.

The subsection of an act

A character battling with decision making, overcoming something personally difficult, overcoming personal prejudices.

One word made up of two different words smushed together.

When an author SHOWS you things about a character over time, not just all at the beginning.

Mimicking something in order to create comedy.

A character who DOES go through an important internal change during the story.

The silent flow of thoughts through a character’s mind.

A very typical example of a certain thing (like setting, situation, theme, action, character)

Vocab to a specific to a group or profession.

A gentler way of saying something blunt or offensive.

A perfect world gone bad.

Something with a double meaning or open to interpretation.

A narrator outside the story who knows the thoughts/feelings/emotions of EVERYONE/EVERYTHING.

A blend of unharmonious sounds.

Making fun of a specific person or idea for the purpose of changing peoples' minds (usually to sway political opinions).