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Introduction to Creative Writing - CCWR01A

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Purpose: Syllabus/Content: Words: denotation and connotation Paradox words, images and symbols: in themselves and in literary contexts Words and the senses: the five basic senses as well as sixth (or eidetic) sense Words and rhyme, rhythm Words and sounds: assonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia, sibilants, plosives Words and sentences: simple, compound, and complex; subject and predicate The leitmotif: a case study Rules and exceptions of poetry writing: Metaphor, Form and content of a poem, Praise poetry, Free verse, Epiphanic moments, The Sonnet, the Ballad, Parody, Allegory and Satire