After DarkCreative Writing Assignment
The Assignment:
Your task is to choose one of the following prompts and write a short story that is AT LEAST
1000 words in length and no more than 1500 words . Your story should contain the seven
elements of narrative writing: plot, setting, atmosphere, characterization, theme, point of
view, and use figurative language & literary devices.
Prompts:
1. Write a story in which someone finds a secret passageway.
2. Write a story about someone who loses their cat.
3. Write a story about someone who receives an unexpected phone call.
4. Write a story in which the lines between awake and dreaming are blurred.
5. Write a story about a character experiencing deja vu.
Extra Credit Opportunity:
Include 10 SAT vocabulary words from the list below. Do not just throw the words in
haphazardly. They must be used CORRECTLY. The words must be highlighted in yellow.
SAT Vocabulary List:
provocative, Bumpkin, Toady, Culpable, Hortatory, Orotund, Penultimate, Blithe, Soporific,
Pervasive, Benign, Frenetic, Recrimination, Indecorous, Corroborate, major-domo,
Untenable, Perambulate, Veneer, Timorous, Luminous, Circuitous, Perquisite, Probity,
Polemical, Tacit, Largesse, Indolent, Circumlocution, depredate, canard, wont, etymology,
cortege, solecism, demotic, simian, impresario, requisite, bulwark, malaise, disingenuous,
crescendo, intransigent, dogged, propensity, condescending, compunction, sepulcher,
bellicose, pulchritude, wizened, rhapsodize, physiognomy, voluble, revel, umbrage,
epiphany, panacea, assiduous
Graded on:
Plot: Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Actionand Resolution/Denouement can be
found in the writing. (15 points)
Setting: The story has a clear setting that is described using imagery. (5 points)
Characterization: Characters are described based upon their personalities, actions,
appearance, and thoughts. There is a main character who is the most important character in
the story and sets the plot in motion [protagonist], and there are minor characters who are
not as important to the plot as the main character. There is a character who blocks the
protagonist (antagonist). The story contains dynamic, static, round, and flat characters. (20
points)
Dialogue: Dialogue is woven into the story correctly. It is clear who is talking and to whom
they are talking. Quotation marks are used correctly. (10 points)
Conflict: There is at least one major conflict (internal or external) that drives the plot forward.
(10 points)
Point of View: The story is written from the first, second, or third person and does not waver
in its method of storytelling. (10 points)
Theme: At least one theme is present in the writing. This is the underlying focus of the
writing. (15 points)
Literary Devices:Present within the writing and used appropriately to add more depth to the
story. (5 points)
Conventions: Spelling, Punctuation, Capitalization,Grammar, etc. (5 points)

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