Learn all about creative nonfiction, including its structure, what topics it covers, with examples of different forms of creative nonfiction.
The way that Freytag himself talks about this inFreytag’s Technique of the Dramais much less simplistic. The climax is still the point at which the story reflects and afterward becomes the mirror story, the counter-play. But rather than just focus on thefateof the protagonist, Freytag thinks...
The point, of course, is to make clear that a victim like Dao did this to himself. Munoz employs the passive voice at key moments to make it clear that there are no other actors in this drama other than Dao. In a one spectacular sentence, Munoz writes of Dao, “He was approached ...
It works just as well in nonfiction. InTheAutobiography of Malcolm X, the book opens with a gripping narrative of Malcolm X’s childhood home as his mother protects the family from the Ku Klux Klan. Everything else in the autobiography then springs out of this harrowing context. Narrative Wr...