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Writing Skills: Creative Writing

CBSE · Class 11 · English

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Card 1Imagination in creative writing

What is the most important element in creative writing?

Answer

Imagination is a very important element in creative writing. It shapes the writer’s perspective, choice of words, comparisons, images, tone, and novelty of ideas.

Card 2Word association

How does a writer’s own experience affect word meaning?

Answer

Each person reacts to words according to personal experience. A word may create a literary meaning for one person, while another may connect it with an everyday object or activity, as seen in the stud

Card 3Factual vs creative writing

What happens when factual writing is compared with creative writing?

Answer

Writing about factual information is usually similar across writers because facts stay fixed. Creative writing can vary widely because writers may present the same event in different ways through imag

Card 4Elements of imagination

Name the six elements through which imagination is reflected in creative writing.

Answer

Imagination is reflected in perspective, choice of words, comparisons, images, tone, and novelty of ideas.

Card 5Perspective

What is meant by perspective in creative writing?

Answer

Perspective is the writer’s way of viewing or presenting a subject. The same scene can feel different depending on how the writer looks at it.

Card 6Word choice

How does choice of words add power to creative writing?

Answer

Careful word choice can create a strong effect and give a sentence a special feeling or mood. In the town paragraph, the phrase 'has a whole emotion' shows how word choice can make the description viv

Card 7Comparisons

What does comparison do in creative writing?

Answer

Comparison helps a writer explain an idea through something familiar. It makes the writing clearer, more vivid, and more interesting.

Card 8Town paragraph

What is the topic and main comparison in the town paragraph?

Answer

The topic is 'A Town'. The main comparison is that a town is like an animal. This is an analogy that extends across the paragraph.

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