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📓Intro to Creative Writing
Key Terms

164 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Intro to Creative Writing exam

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A

Action line
Adverbs in Dialogue
Ambiguous ending
Anti-Hero
Artist statement
Artistic license
Associative logic
Auditory imagery
Autobiographical fiction

B

Beta readers
Blackout poetry
Blank verse
Book proposal
Braided essay
Breaking the Fourth Wall

C

Character agency
Character Backstories
Character Insight
Character movements
Character Profile
Character Sketch
Character thoughts
Character Voice
Closure
Colloquial language
Comic relief subplot
Comparative imagery
Compelling Character
Composite characters
Concrete Language
Confessional poetry
Cultural Setting

D

Dead metaphor
Deconstruction
Descriptive action
Descriptive details
Dialogue Opening
Direct dialogue
Dramatic Irony
Dramatic Tension
Dystopian Society

E

Editing process
Ellipsis
Embodied reading
Emotional Arc
Emotional Stakes
Emotional Truth
Evocative style
Experiential writing
Experimental writing
Explicit comparison
Exposition dump
External conflict
Eye rhyme

F

Falling Action
Fantasy fiction
Feet
Flash fiction
Flash-forward
Flat Character Arcs
Flat Characters
Formatting
Found poetry
Fragmented narrative
Fragmented sentences
Frame Narrative

G

Genre experimentation

H

Hero's Journey
Human Condition
Hybrid forms

I

Imagination
Immersion research
Incubation
Indirect characterization
Internal Monologue