Creative Nonfiction LM Q1 Module 1

Senior High School .
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Quarter 1- Module 1
Understanding Conventions of
Traditional Genres
What I need to know
Welcome to Creative Nonfiction dear students, this learning
material was designed to provide meaningful independent
learning experience while the challenges of classroom face to
face instruction exists
What is in
This Module consists of understanding conventions of
traditional genre. The focus of literary conventions is the closer
look on fiction and nonfiction types. The writing activity you are
expected to do is based on your life experience and the place you
live.
What is it
Literary conventions are the different styles, genres and
devices used in writing. Literature is divided in to three broad literary
genres- the poetry which uses forms and figurative languages,
fiction and nonfiction.
Fiction
Poetry, however, is not only genre that can utilize figurative
languages. Similarly, fiction, which is any work written in prose that is not
real, can also use elaborate figurative language. However, fiction is much
more structured than poetry. It must be written in sentences and
paragraphs with all the proper punctuation and grammar, which makes it
prose. Usually fiction is broken up into chapters as well.
Since it is based on the imagination. The subject matter in fiction
works can nearly be anything. Fiction can take place in the present day,
the future, or the past. It can incorporate the most fantastical ideas or
follow an everyday life. Some examples of fictions are legends, folk tales,
short stories, and any novel. For example the popular Hunger games,
Divergent and Squid Game which occur in timeless and apocalyptic future.
Nonfiction
A third broad literary genre is nonfiction. If fiction is fake then non
fiction is opposite. It comes from real life. Works of nonfiction are all based
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in real-world experiences. When you read the newspaper you are reading
nonfiction. Other examples include journals, diaries, biographies,
autobiographies and essays.
"Nonfiction" refers to literature based in fact. ... The Nonfiction

Department has books and videos in many categories including biography,
business, cooking, health and fitness, pets, crafts, home decorating,
languages, travel, home improvement, religion, art and music, history, self-
help, true crime, science and humor.
Nonfiction can also use figurative language. However, it is not as abundant

as in poetry and even fiction. Figurative language in this genre generally
comes through common phrases which well-known and used on a daily
basis by many. These pieces are written in prose, like fiction, and
sometimes even in chapters.
For example the book “Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl” is broken up
into her specific diary entries. This book is simply a published diary written
by a teenage Jewish girl who hid from the Germans in World War II. The
diary was found after the girl perished and her family published it without
changing the written words. What Anne wrote was real. It was her life, and
a great example of nonfiction.
Creative nonfiction tells a story using facts, but uses many on the
techniques of fiction for its competing qualities and emotional vibrancy.
Creative nonfiction doesn’t report facts. It delivers facts in ways that move
the reader toward a deeper understanding of a topic. Creative nonfiction
requires the skills of the storyteller and the research ability of the
conscientious reporter. Writers of creative nonfiction must become instant
authorities on the subject of their articles or books. They must also see
beyond them to discover their underlying meaning and they must
dramatize that meaning in an interesting, evocative, in formative way- just
a good teacher does (Cheney, 2001).
Fiction and nonfiction – what is the

difference?
We see these words in the libraries and bookstores in magazines and
online., but what do fiction and nonfiction really mean? What kinds of
writing belong in these categories, and why? You are not the first writer to
ask these questions, and you will not be the last. Works of fiction and
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nonfiction can each be enthralling and valuable pieces of literature. But
they are different in several important ways.
“novels are examples of fiction writing”

What does fiction mean? Fiction refers to made-up stories. These stories
are not based on real-life events or characters. Fictional stories can be
mysteries, fantasy tales, historical dramas, romances, etc.
In popular language, fiction is also used to describe anything that is not
true. Novels are examples of fictional prose. If you enjoy reading novels,
you are fan of reading fiction.
“Biographies are examples of nonfiction

writing”
What does fiction mean? Nonfiction works are based on real people or
events. Memoirs, biographies, documentaries and works of history are all
examples of nonfiction.
Nonfiction sometimes appear as a hyphenated word: non-fiction either
spelling is accepted.
“Fiction is false:
Nonfiction is not false”
Now let’s go over a trick to remember nonfiction vs fiction. A work that is
nonfiction is a recounting of real events. A work of fiction is based on
made-up people or events.
Since fiction is false begin with the same letter, we can easily remember
that fiction is false, even if it is an excellent and well crafted story.
Summary
IS it fiction or nonfiction? Fictions and nonfictions are two categories of
writing. Nonfiction deals with real life.
Fiction is also a word that is commonly used to describe anything that is
not true, like wild occasions or patiently false testimony. This article though
is a work of nonfiction.
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What’s more
Activity # 1 Based on your understanding of the reading compare and

contrast fiction and nonfiction using key words in a Venn Diagram.
Copy the illustration in your activity sheets.
fiction Nonfiction
Additional Activity: Descriptive writing: Location

Activity #2 This task will enhance your ability to record details of your day
to day life which sometimes taken for granted as avenue of nonfiction
technical writing. It is a type of descriptive writing of a specific location
although most of the symbolic writing are not emphasized in this work.
What is important in this type of writing is the accuracy of details to be
more effective and usable.
Telling Direction: In an instance that you are asked to go to a place where
you’ve been never before alone, you need a precise detail in order to
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reach your destination easily. You have to think of another person coming
to your house let’s say a friend or teacher or delivery man.
A. Make a simple Sketch indicating the location of your house.

Example:
Don’t forget to put title in your work.
B. Give clear instruction to a person going to your house. Supposed

you have a classmate, friend, teacher or delivery man from an
online buying platform who needs to reach your place. Give him a
step by step direction from ANHS Compound to you house
location. It can be in paragraph or bullet form.
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The following phrases may help you
from ANHS Compound take a bus going to. . .
when you reach . . .
after Cruz store. . .
at kilometer 73 …
turn left …
it’s about 2o meters from …
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References:
Book
Rees Cheney ,T. A. (2001), Writing Creative Nonfiction Fiction
Techniques for Crafting Great Nonfiction .Ten Speed Press.
Berkeley / Toronto
Online source
https://study.com/.../literary-genres-definition-types-characteristics-
examples.html (Retrieved last September 25, 2020)
https://writingexplained.org/resources-writing-language (Retrieved
last September 25, 2020)
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Writer: RANIEL ERWIN C. PIZAÑA
ABORLAN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
October 2020

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Senior High School .

"Nonfiction" refers to literature based in fact. ... The Nonfiction

Nonfiction can also use figurative language. However, it is not as abundant

Fiction and nonfiction – what is the

“novels are examples of fiction writing”

“Biographies are examples of nonfiction

Activity # 1 Based on your understanding of the reading compare and

Additional Activity: Descriptive writing: Location

A. Make a simple Sketch indicating the location of your house.

Don’t forget to put title in your work.

B. Give clear instruction to a person going to your house. Supposed

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