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Writing Skills: Creative Writing

CBSE · Class 11 · English

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Key Topics to Revise

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1. Core Idea of Creative Writing

  • Creative writing is shaped by imagination.
  • Imagination appears in perspective, word choice, comparisons, images, tone, and novelty of ideas.
  • Writing about factual information is usually similar across writers.
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2. Words, Meaning, and Personal Experience

  • The word 'unseamed' means to cut open.
  • A student answering 'Cricket ball' shows how personal experience shapes response to words.
  • The teacher's question about 'seam' helps connect meaning with everyday experience.
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3. Steinbeck's Town Paragraph: Analogy, Tone, and Word Choice

  • The topic of the paragraph is a town.
  • The town is compared to an animal.
  • The comparison is extended through ideas like nervous system, head, shoulders, and feet.
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4. Sentence Structure in Creative Writing

  • Creative writing can use sentence patterns that differ from factual writing.
  • Actions may be chained with repeated 'and' for effect.
  • In normal construction, so many 'ands' would not be used.

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Imagination is a very important elementEach person reacts to words accordingWriting about factual information is usuallyAn analogy compares one thingThe phrase 'has a whole emotion'

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