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UNIT 2 CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS
Review Questions
The unit discusses style in terms of creative writing and comparing it to something. What can style be compared to and what is meant by this simile?
Journaling is an excellent way to practice writing for various reasons. Briefly describe each of the five ways that journaling can help strengthen writing skills.
Freewriting can be a useful strategy in order to collect muddled thoughts and various ideas. In several sentences, describe how one should approach the act of freewriting.
Briefly describe each of the following vocabulary terms in your own words: style, tone, diction, syntax.
The unit discusses seven tips that help to cultivate creativity. Choose two of these tips that you feel are most important or pertinent to you and briefly explain why.
Critical Thinking Questions
It is often said that a writer’s voice shines through anything that they create, if they have used the tools of writing to effectively find their voice. What are some other industries or career paths that require finding one’s voice? How are these careers similar or dissimilar to being a writer?
Diction has the ability to set one’s writing in a particular time period, setting, or socio-economic level. Choose and identify a specific setting, time period, or socio-economic level and write several sentences that clearly represent your choice.
Syntax can be rearranged to create a different experience for the reader. Read the following passage while paying attention to the syntax.
We’re on a flat, open stretch of ground. A plain of hard-packed dirt. Behind the tributes across from me, I can see nothing, indicating either a steep downward slope or even a cliff. To my right lies a lake. To my left and back, sparse piney woods.
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
Try to rewrite the passage using as many of the same words as in the original, but format it in a different way to change the syntax. Does your re-write change the feeling of the passage?
Writer’s block is something that generally afflicts all writers at one point or another in their career. Obviously, writer’s block is fairly specific within the writing domain; however, what other professions might suffer from a similar type of barrier? Briefly compare and contrast writer’s block to a similar obstacle that a person in another profession may encounter.
Imagine that you are a teacher for a creative writing course at the college-level. You begin a lesson by discussing the importance of accessing one’s own creativity and identifying ways to inspire oneself. What are some suggestions that you might offer your students (based on what was learned in the unit) as to how to find their creativity and inspiration? How would you help to inspire them?