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

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A

A moveable feast
Action line
Adverbs in Dialogue
Aesop's Fables
Agatha Christie
Alison Bechdel
Amaranth Borsuk
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Ambiguous ending
Angela's Ashes
Anne Carson
Anne Lamott
Anti-Hero
Archival research
Artist statement
Artistic license
As I Lay Dying
Associative logic
Auditory imagery
Austin Kleon
Autobiographical fiction

B

Beta readers
Between the world and me
Blackout poetry
Blank verse
Bluets
Book proposal
Book tour
Braided essay
Brandon Sanderson
Breaking the Fourth Wall
Brenda Miller
Brian kim stefans

C

Central Question
Character Actions
Character agency
Character Backstories
Character Development
Character Insight
Character interaction
Character movements
Character Profile
Character relationships
Character Sketch
Character thoughts
Character Voice
Characterization
Charles Baudelaire
Christian Bök
Chronological timeline
Claudia Rankine
Close reading
Closure
Collaboration
Colloquial language
Comic relief subplot
Comparative imagery
Compelling Character
Composite characters
Concrete Examples
Concrete Language
Confessional poetry
Cultural Context
Cultural norms
Cultural references
Cultural Setting

D

David Mamet
David Shields
Dead metaphor
Deconstruction
Deeper meaning
Descriptive action
Descriptive details
Descriptive language
Descriptive Passages