CRWR 200- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 45 pages long!)

• School: UBC
• Department: Creative Writing
• Course: CRWR 200
• Professor: Taylor Brown- Evans

Document Summary

Crwr 200 (september 22, 2016) pitfalls, theme, time and image: storytelling pitfalls, structural ambiguity, clich s/familiar phrasing on their way to becoming clich s, when you"re (cid:449)riting, it"s like floundering at sea. The how of your story: explicit the author shows (and tells) us every aspect of the plot, theme the portion of the narrative that reflects on some universal human condition. The why of your story: implicit the author never comes out and says it, theme vs. Message: theme implied statement about the nature of humanity/existence, message implied or explicit advice or lessons learned from a hypothetical situation, time, two kinds of time, summary: general information is given rather than specific information. We are told about the action and events: useful for: providing information (exposition), filling in a chara(cid:272)ter"s (cid:271)a(cid:272)kground, helping readers. 2 understand motivations, creating transitions, moving through space/time: scene: specific descriptions are given rather than general information.