A Glossary of terms relating to Creative Writing
U174_1 Glossary
This glossary includes many key terms discussed in this unit that are relevant to the authoring and creative writing process.
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Glossary: A Glossary of terms relating to Creative Writing
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Psychological thrillerWhere a mood of high tension and excitement is created mainly as the result of psychological drama and dilemma. |
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RealismFictional writing that aims to represent ‘everyday’ scenes, speech and behaviour through faithful depiction of ‘real life’ details, without recourse to obvious literary devices or conceits. Also known as ‘truth to nature’. |
RomanceIn its broader, historical sense, ‘romance’ refers to novels where the stories are exaggerated or remote from everyday life. Now it is often more taken to refer to a novel where the fiction centres on one or more love stories. |
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Science fictionWhere an alternative reality is created, usually in outer space, or on another planet, often involving a high degree of scientific or technical data about that ‘other world’. |
SettingThe environment and atmosphere in which characters operate. |
Short storyA length of prose up to approximately 20,000 words in length, most usually of between 1,000 and 5,000 words. |
SimileA comparison usually using ‘like’ or ‘as’, e.g. ‘ The clouds were like cotton wool’. |
StoryA narrative of events arranged in their time-sequence. |
SyntaxThe grammatical structure in sentences. |