Free Essays on Imaginative Writing

  1. Show How “Kubla Khan” and “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” Create Imaginative Effects, Rather Than Specific Themes and Meaning. Describe Your Response to the Poems and Explain How the Writers Create It.

    “Kubla Khan” and “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” create imaginative effects, rather than specific themes and meaning. Describe your response to the poems and explain how the writers create it. Both John Keats and Samuel Taylor Coleridge create strong imaginative effects, which in turn overshadows the specific...

  2. Imaginative Writing-the Cosy Bench

    Imaginative Writing The cosy bench. I tried to open my weary bloodshot eyes and rubbed them with my soiled and viscous hands. Ooh, they were sore although a mischievous little pixie had been poking them with his favourite pointy stick. Ooh painful. ...

  3. Writing a Descriptive Paragraph

    Writing A Descriptive Paragraph When you write a descriptive paragraph, you need to try to paint a word picture, so the reader receives a clear impression of what you are trying to portray. The writer uses all five senses in his word pictures. He uses sound, tastes, smells, feelings, and sights...

  4. Womens Influence on Hawthornes Writings

    connection to his mother. During this time, "he communicated with his mother and sisters through highly imaginative writings" (Ponder). His sister Ebe was supportive and even helped with his ideas for his writings. She became his first female audience. His extended family was composed of intellectual and very...

  5. J.R.R. Tolkien's Way of Writing

    Ronald Reuel Tolkien. J.R.R. Tolkien’s way of writing truly inspired readers along with other authors. His way of writing mystified the readers and made them feel as if they were in the story. J.R.R. Tolkien’s background has contributed to the uniquely imaginative style found in his famous works of literature...

  6. Writing

    Get it Write! Exercise your first grader's writing muscles! These activities put a fun spin on writing and grammar practice. Table of Contents Write Pen Pal Postcards Start a Personal Post Office Dictionary Treasure Hunt Write a Story From an Ant's Perspective Sight Word Jenga Write a Mixed Up Story...

  7. Miller

    writer‟s uses of language and/or structure and/or form and effects on readers/audience 6.5 Convincing/imaginative interpretation of ideas/themes Information is presented clearly and accurately. Writing is fluent and focused. Syntax and spelling are used with a high degree of accuracy.6.1 Insightful exploratory...

  8. The Correspondences of Charlotte Bronte

    would not conform to the traditional Victorian society (Harris 42). Due to unhappiness of being a governess at Roe Head and hoping to make her imaginative writing her occupation, she wrote to Robert Southey (“Charlotte Brontë” 4). She asked his opinion regarding her poems merit. Southey replies to Brontë...

  9. Rubric

    Imaginative (Short Story) Writing Rubric The Assignment: Write an imaginative story to enlighten and entertain through characterization and theme! The story should be fiction (made up). Your setting and characters can be completely imaginary or modeled after places and people you know. The final...

  10. Definition of Literature

    plot. Literary works are primarily distinguishable from other pieces of writing by their creative or artistic intent, as the noted critic Harold Bloom has stated, “Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person...

  11. the death of minor

    Year 10 GCSE English Language CCA – Narrative Writing After half term, Year 10 will be doing their first Controlled Conditions assignment in English lessons. This is a 1 hour assignment for GCSE English Language. It requires students to write a piece of narrative ( a fictional story or autobiographical...

  12. imaginative journey

    surroundings, life and persona. It is an essential tool towards the process of growth. The imaginative journey challenges the concept of reality prompting a different world a vivid ingenuity, a new state of mind. The imaginative journey allows contemplation, this succours the individual to distinguish their faults;...

  13. Imaginative Journeys

    composers convey several aspects of imaginative journeys. Specifically, this is done through poetic, visual and cinematic techniques. A prominent notion in Coleridge’s “This Lime Tree Bower My Prison”, Shaun Tan’s “The Red Tree” and David Fincher’s “Fight Club” is that imaginative journeys may transcend physical...

  14. Romantic Literature Research Essay

    This revolution is called the Romantic Movement or Romanticism. Romanticism is literature, art, music, and drama that depict emotional matter in an imaginative state (Fitzpatrick 1). Romanticism in literature started in 1798, when William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote the first edition of...

  15. In the Lake of the Woods

    disturbance from Vietnam. He is a man of hidden realities; the hidden depths of the lake are metaphors of these. Section B: imaginative landscape- Island. The Imaginative Landscape in Island Landscape is never neutral. In real life, people bring their own knowledge, experience and emotions to their...

  16. John Steinbeck

    of Wrath. In all, Steinbeck wrote 25 books, which included 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and many other works. Even though he died in 1968, his writings are still relevant, and studied, today. John Steinbeck III was born in Salinas, California, on February 27, 1902. His father was the county...

  17. Imaginative Journeys ‘This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison’

    Imaginative journeys are as important as any other journey in their potential to teach. Journeys act as a method for self knowledge - helping all to achieve a state of appreciation for one's own potential as a person. Imaginative journeys broaden ones understanding of oneself and the world. All journeys...

  18. A Summary of "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    and place that the events of the story unfold. While no specific period of time is mentioned, evidence through character’s speech and the narrator’s writing makes it seem to be in the late eighteen hundreds to early nineteen hundreds. The narrator and her husband move into a house for the summer which the...

  19. Acquiring and Developing Language and iteracy

    acquisition and the steps, which children take to acquire them. It will then discuss the roles of the four strands of literacy education, reading, writing, speaking and listening as well as drama and role play across educational phases. It will go on to discuss the role of assessment for learning which...

  20. Literature of the Holocaust

    documentaries, articles, or poetry. Literature can be creative and/or imaginative. From a historical point of view, the narrator may use literary elements to understand historical events. This can be found in the selection from Dr. Paul Licata’s Writings on the Wall. Another form of literature is found in Night...

  21. Gothic Genre Context

    Wordsworth, Lord Byron and John Keats. These writers influenced literature throughout the nineteenth century. The Brontës were also familiar with the writings of these British Romantic poets. Romance is a term with many meanings. In the Middle Ages, a romance was a tale in prose or poetry dealing with...

  22. The Standardization of English

    anything like it in Greece today! In my own life, I have noticed that my three young children have already begun to use rhyming and slang within their writings at school, since moving to the United Kingdom. It’s really marvelous to watch them express themselves with such imagination. Initially, I used...

  23. Huckleberry Finn 3

    is written is merely fluid prejudice." There are many other instances in which Twain uses prejudice as a foundation for the entertainment of his writings. Even in the opening paragraph of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain states, "Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be...

  24. Lun Kabab

    a mythic, exotic land where black identity was rooted, but instead as a land ravaged by Western imperialism, a symbol of lost roots. In his later writing, Hughes steered away from images of African primitivism, for he saw such depictions of African and African-American culture as impeding rather than...

  25. A Time of Change

    Time of Change I can’t think of a time in my life when reading didn’t play a big role in my life. But it was only recently that I began to enjoy writing. English and literature were always my strong point throughout my time in school. I excelled there where I lacked in other areas such as math and more...

  26. The Sword in the Stone

    setting to a life filled with imaginary creatures, spells and magic. This story is told with third person narrative, the writer uses ample writing styles, writing mainly in the third person, to delve into and explain the character’s actions and feelings. For example, the author uses the issue of the goshawk...

  27. planing for assignment

    You can do this by writing a succinct account (or paraphrasing), keeping quotes to a minimum, addressing what the author of the reading seems to mean. You are encouraged to write in the first person in order to emphasise the interpretive nature of your comments. In your writing please disclose your...

  28. How Does Dickens Portray Life as Hard in Victorian Times in the Opening Chapters of Great Expectations?

    Dickens portray life as hard in Victorian times in the opening chapters of Great Expectations? Charles Dickens, born in 1812, has been well known for writing about the social injustices of the Victorian era to bring an awareness of the conditions of the working classes to the wider public, and in providing...

  29. Literature Analysis : the Postmaster; Castaway.

    University of Oxford held a special convocation in Calcutta in 1940 to honour him with the Doctor of Letters, honoris causa degree. His philosophy and writings were extremely important elements in the renaissance of Bengal and India at large in the early twentieth century and shaped the Bengali literature...

  30. Poetry of the Psalms

    book of Psalms. These authors “were imaginative, creative, lovers of poetry as well as lovers of God, and people who regarded the artistry of their poems as something important” (Ryken, Literature of Bible 122). They were not ignorant to the fact that they were writing poetry and, in fact, they were interested...

  31. Report on David A. Kolb's model

    dominant with the divergence and has a strong concrete experimentation and reflective observation skills. This type of person is innovative and imaginative and is going to love to work in groups. They are people-oriented, feeling-oriented and group-oriented. They do care about the diversity of culture...

  32. Wilfred Owen World of Poetry Essay

    ideas on the horror of war; these poems are named “Dulce Et Decorum Est”, “Anthem of the Doomed Youth” and “Disabled”. He has used an abundance of imaginative and effective techniques such as imagery symbolism alliteration onomatopoeia and much more to lure the reader into his poems featuring misfortune...

  33. Personal Imaganitive

    Personal Imaginative Creative Writing She always did the same thing, every day the same routine, I was in all her classes through junior school and never did she speak one word, her eyes were fixed, her skin was like pure white paper and she never smiled, her clothes were always creased and dirty...

  34. Ruskin Bond (Hindi: रस्किन बोंड, Born 19 May 1934)

    inLandour since the 1960s, having previously also lived, as a child and young man, in Shimla, Jamnagar, Mussoorie, Dehradun, and London. Most of his writings show a strong influence from the social life in the hill stations at the foothills of the Himalayas, where he spent his childhood. His first novel...

  35. Bathing in a borrowed suit

    Writing Handout E-7: Descriptive Essay Structuring a Descriptive Essay A descriptive essay simply describes something or someone by appealing to the reader’s senses: sight, sound, touch, smell and taste. Here are the basic steps to writing an effective descriptive essay: 1. Select a subject ...

  36. The Red Room Essay

    goes to spend a night in the feared red room. H.G Wells uses a number of different techniques to create and sustain tension throughout his writing, for example writing the story in first person. In this essay I will try to explore these techniques and explain them. The title is the first technique noticed...

  37. Nice

    45 Narrative Prompts Imaginative/Fictional Narrative 1. Suppose you had invented a time machine. Write a story about what you did with it. 2. Write a story about trading places with your favorite TV, movie, or rock star. 3. One day a spaceship lands on the playground of your school... 4...

  38. Emil

    astonishingly short. · If you want to reach a world audience, write in English: In science, as in literature, a person writing in a minor language has a better chance of publication than one writing in a major tongue, but will necessarily have a much smaller chance of translation and international recognition...

  39. Communicative Language Ability

    KNOWLEDGE GRAMMATICAL KNOWLEDGE Vocabulary Syntax Phonology/graphology TEXTUAL KNOWLEDGE Cohesion Rhetorical and conversational Organization Imaginative functions FUNCTIONAL KNOWLEDGE Ideational functions Manipulative functions Heuristic functions Cultural references and Figures of speech ...

  40. Does John Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s Progress” have hidden biblical messages?

    if anything, even more humble than the bard. (Heydt 2006, 47) John Bunyan’s personal struggles with faith and godliness inspired this vivid and imaginative tale of a pilgrim’s epic trek towards a distant promised land. (Heydt 2006, 47) Many people label this story an allegory, which is defined as a representation...

  41. The History of English Literature

    Thus, Raymond Williams defines literature at this period as “well-written books of an imaginative, creative, aesthetic, or artistic kind.” Literature is now defined as having cultural and artistic value, as writing that transcends historical circumstance or market realities. This is largely the legacy...

  42. Lifespan Development

    activities develop. The child’s physical strength begins to increase and body proportion becomes more adult-like. Their fine motor skills, such as writing and drawing, begin to develop but at a slow pace. The motor skills of boys begin to differ from that of the age related girls, as gender differences...

  43. Journal Entry

    Ideas for Writing. Question 3.) Judith Shakespeare Woolf writes a fictional story comparing the life of William Shakespeare to his hypothetical sister Judith Shakespeare in response to Professor Trevelyan. Set in the Shakespearean era she tells the of the journey that led William to become a well...

  44. Discovery of Guiana (Sir Walter Raleigh)

    expedition was disastrous, and, on his return, Raleigh was executed on the old charge in 1618. - He was sent to Tower where he focused on historical writing and scientific study. - Raleigh was released in 1616 to search for gold again in the Orinoco, his expedition failed and he violated the terms...

  45. Awakening

    about women’s submerged life” (2). Speaking solely about Kate Chopin, this quote puts emphasis upon Chopin’s disputes with her society. She used her writing as a technique to indirectly explicate her life by the means of narrating her stories through the characters she created. Kate Chopin was one of the...

  46. Mgmt Sop

    applying an appropriate mix of intuitive and logical thinking, essentially by getting down to the details. Initiative-driven and possessing a very imaginative mindset, I have successfully executed several initiatives (being the communications focal within the business domain). I will bring to the table...

  47. Perception of Various Performance Criteria by Stakeholders in the Construction Sector in Hong Kong

    ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- <Faculty Name> <Grade Earned> <Writing Score> <Date Graded> Perception of various performance criteria by stakeholders in the construction sector in Hong Kong Lai I...

  48. Ms. Potter - Movie Review

    Beatrix Potter was famed for writing some of the best selling children's books of all time. Not only was the fiercely independent woman an admired writer and illustrator, she was also a well known conservationist. Her love of animals and the English countryside was prominent in her work throughout her...

  49. Montessori

    "follow the child"—that is, to let children's natural interests take the lead. Over time, Montessori tweaked her methods through trial and error. Her writings further served to spread her ideology throughout Europe and the United States. By 1925 more than 1,000 of her schools had opened in America. Gradually...

  50. Sherlock Holmes - 1

    uncles soon realized his potential and enrolled him at a Jesuit Preparatory School (Carr 5). Soon after he graduated to Stonyhurst College he began writing long letters home to his mother and adventure stories that he would read aloud to his classmates. They ended up serving as models for Conan Doyle's...

  51. english 102

    readers about the man moving on and branching out. The imagery for this stanza was used to put his readers in a literal state of mind instead of an imaginative way. Each picture that Neruda used in his poem “ If You Forget Me” was used to help his readers imagine the pain he was going through and...

  52. Essay

    read and studied to this day. Writers in this period would find a way to express the Victorian era’s problems and realities through use of very imaginative and artistic sentences. One such problem during this era, was the rights of women. A woman was not treated as a figure of authority or as somebody...

  53. Consider the Following Two Different Views of Poetry: ‘Ly Poetry Is the Expression by the Poet of His Own Feelings’ (Ruskin) vs. ‘Poe Is Not a Turning Loose of Emotions, but an Escape from Emotion’ (T.S. Eliot).

    distanced or self-conscious, making the reader question whether it is the poets true anxieties. A particular style of poetry can demand a certain writing style and distance from the poet himself, such as the dramatic monologue, but the poet’s own feelings or thoughts can still be expressed. All conflicting...

  54. Schreber Case

    perseverance. On the surface, Schreber seems to make a similar argument, denying the claim that his schizophrenic state causes intellectual degradation. Writing defensively, Schreber, in his grounds for appeal, declares that his ability to rationalize is still present despite his paranoia: “I explained...

  55. African Literature

    cultural history of the people. In an oral society, oral genres include history (the heroic poem) and imaginative story (the tale). The epic combines the two, linking the historical episode to the imaginative tale. Sometimes, myth is also a part of epic, with emphasis on origins. The tale, the heroic poem...

  56. Realism, Fantasy and the Novel Form

    German writer of renown, Johann Wolfgang Von | |Goethe, freed himself from the unrequited love of a married woman. He poured out his frustration by writing a world classic, | |The Sorrows of Young Werther. He draws inspiration from reality which also gives the reader a sense belonging and relief. ...

  57. King Arthur

    the tent to get Kay's sword.  He stumbled along the way and stopped when he noticed the sword in the stone again in the churchyard. Then he noticed writing on the stone: Whoever shall pull this sword from this stone shall be the rightful King Arthur thought nothing as he stood on the stone and pulled...

  58. synthesis essay

    issue here isn’t that Yang has decided he's most attentive in writing about a few of well-educated Asian-American men and about their professional complications and sexual failings. It is portrayed that he does so while claiming to be writing about "Asian Americans" as a communal. Yang has made their...

  59. Poetry 101

    Personification Throw Away Page What Is Poetry?? Poetry is the art of rhythmical composition, or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts. Its origin comes from the 1300’s – 1400’s and its formation is unclear. Poetry comes naturally to some, but takes others...

  60. Health and Development

    year-olds learn by observation and imitation and enjoy imaginative play (Mandeleco, 2004). The best way to describe the process of what will happen in a manner they will understand would be to demonstrate the procedure very broadly during a short imaginative skit, using a doll or toy of the child. This will...