Day on the Farm (Poem) by Luis G.

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Writing Task 1
1. Who is the persona speaking in the poem? Describe the persona.

2. Can you tell why the girl is crying? Why doesn’t she accept the girl showered to her by the speaker?
What does she want from speaker?

3. What for are the gifts for the girl?

4. How does the girl respond to these gift?

5. What is the tone of the poem?

6. What proposal is made by the man in the last two lines? Will this proposal make the woman continue
or stop crying?

7. What figurative language is used in the last line? What contrast do you find in it?
 Soledad (Poem) by Angela Manalang-Gloria
Writing Task 2
1. Who is Soledad? What kind of persona is she? Describe her characteristic by citing these texts: “one
so carved from pride and glassed in dream” and her “graven days”.

2. What happened to Soledad or what did she do that her neighbors find absolutely uncharacteristic?

3. Why are the neighbors shocked by what she had done? Explain “the scandal never died”. What
scandal?

4. Who is the speaker? What is her relationship with Soledad and where does the speaker’s sympathies
lie, with the neighbors or Soledad?

5. Read the last six lines and explain what exactly they say.
 Magnificence (Short Story) by Estrella D. Alfon
Writing Task 3: Story Grammar
Title of the Story
Author and his/her
background
Setting/s
Characters and short
descriptions about them
Conflict
Point-of-View
Plot
Exposition
Rising Action
Climax
Falling Action
Denouement
Symbol used and their
meanings
Theme/s