Creative Writing: Grade 8 First Semester

Republic of the Philippines
Department of Education
Region XII Sangay ng Paaralang Lungsod
MARBEL SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Lungsod ng Koronadal
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CREATIVE WRITING
Module 1
Grade 8
First Semester
Prepared by: Sir Juanito B. Eusala Jr.
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INTRODUCTION
Creative Writing
Creative writing is considered by any writing, fiction, poetry, or non-fiction, that goes
outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, and technical forms of
literature. Works which fall into this category include novels, epics, short stories, and
poems. Writing for the screen and stage, screenwriting and playwriting respectively,
typically have their own programs of study, but fit under the creative writing category as
well.
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MODULE 1
CREATIVE WRITING
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SCOPE OF THE MODULE
COURSE DESCRIPTION
A multi-genre introduction to the craft of creative writing. In the context of a variety of

genres, students will examine literary conventions as well as the writing techniques and
tools essential to effective writing and editing.
CONTENT STANDARDS
The learners have an understanding of imagery, diction, figures of speech, and

variations on language.
The learners have an understanding of poetry and fiction as a genre and are able to
analyze its elements and techniques.
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
The learners shall be able to produce short paragraphs or vignettes using imagery,
diction, figures of speech, and specific experiences.
The learners shall be able to produce a short, well-crafter poem.
The learners shall be able to produce at least one striking scene for a short story.
NUMBER OF SESSIONS
Forty (40) sessions every quarter/ four days in one week.
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FIRST GRADING
Name: _____________________________________ ___ Score: ____________
Year and Section: ______________________________ Date: _____________
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CONTENT
Introduction ……………………………………………………………………………………. 2
Module 1 Creative Writing ………………………………………………………….…. 3
Scope of the Module …………………………………………………………………………. 4
First Grading …………………………………………………………………………………... 5
Lesson 1 Use imagery, diction, figures of speech, and specific experiences to

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evoke meaningful responses from readers
Lesson 2 Identify the various elements, techniques, and literary devices in
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specific forms of poetry
Lesson 3 Write a short poem applying the various elements and literary
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devices exploring innovative techniques
Lesson 4 Identify the various elements, techniques, and literary devices in
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various modes of fiction
Lesson 5 Write journal entries and other short compositions exploring key
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elements of fiction
Post Test ……………………………………………………………………………………….. 14
Reference ………………………………………………………………………………………. 20
About the Authors ……………………………………………………………………………. 21
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Lesson 1
Use imagery, diction, figures of speech, and specific
experiences to evoke meaningful responses from
readers
Name: ________________________________________ Score: ____________
Activity 1
Direction: Find and circle the figures of speech in the grid. Look for them in all
directions including backwards and diagonally.
D Y S P H E M I S M T H Z Z C N Z E F N R
R R X R G L M E L L I P S I S X C T P O I
A L L I T E R A T I O N E J O M A S H I Q
Y N O R I A V P M H X P H D S L T P A S Y
P H Z Y X N O I H Q F B A I O N A D R U C
E E T W Z T U D L D O R R N H T P T O L E
R H F E S A V E L O A E Q B E M H O H L C
S P H K V N D S X P M J U M E G O A P A N
O O N O M A T O P O E I A T T X R N A U A
N R H B V C X C Y Q A H A E Y G A T N K N
I T T R X L A N T I C L I M A C T I A E O
F S N E H A P U W S E V O L I T O T E S S
I O X P K S E F E P R R S E M N W H O U S
C P K Y Z I S F S V O Z X O S V P E M I A
A A Y H Y S G I T N K Z Z J I F K S Y T O
T F U E J H S T C N W V C T M U A I I G G
I Y G O L O T U A T Y K B X E I H S U N B
O U Z N V Z P X C A N T I P H R A S I S J
N M E H C O D C E N Y S Y C P S I M I L E
B Y M Y N O T E M S J D I R U H E G Z U R
H Q L O T N E M E T A T S R E D N U I M R
Alliteration Dysphemism Oxymoron
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Allusion Ellipsis Paradox
Anaphora Euphimism Personification
Antanaclasis Hyperbole
Antiphrases Irony
Antithesis Litotes
Apostrophe Metaphor
Assonance Metonymy
Cataphora Onomatopoeia
Activity 2
Direction: Identify the literary devices.

(They may be more than one.)
1. How many cookies could a good cook cook if a good cook could cook cookies? A
good cook could cook as much cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies.
2. And now, the end is near and so I face the final curtain.
3. The cactus saluted those who drove past.
4. My grandmother is as wise as an owl.
5. We could hear the wind whispering words.
6. I’ll give you a hand.
A. Alliteration B. Metaphor C. Personification D. Simile

E. Onomatopoeia F. Metonymy
Lesson 2
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Identify the various elements, techniques, and literary
devices in specific forms of poetry
Name: ________________________________________ Score: ____________
Activity 1
Direction: Identify the different kinds of literary devices, techniques and devices.
Metaphor Irony Imagery
Personification Hyperbole Foreshadowing
Onomatopoeia Iambic pentameter Exposition
Figurative Language Oxymoron Repetition
Simile
_________________________ 1. Where an author interrupts a story to explain something,

usually to provide important background information.
_________________________ 2. Any use of language where the intended meaning differs

from the actual literal meaning of the words themselves. There are many techniques which
can rightly be called figurative language, including metaphor, simile, hyperbole,
personification, onomatopoeia, verbal irony, and oxymoron.
_________________________ 3. Where future events in a story, or perhaps the outcome,

are suggested by the author before they happen. It can take many forms and be
accomplished in many ways, with varying degrees of subtlety. However, if the outcome is
deliberately and explicitly revealed early in a story (such as by the use of a narrator or
flashback structure), such information does not constitute foreshadowing.
_________________________ 4. A description which exaggerates.
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_________________________ 5. Language which describes something in detail, using
words to substitute for and create sensory simulation, including visual imagery and sound
imagery. Also refers to specific and recurring types of images, such as food imagery and
nature imagery.
_________________________ 6. Where an event occurs which is unexpected, and which

is in absurd or mocking position to what is expected or appropriate.
_________________________ 7. Poetry written with each line containing ten syllables, in

five repetitions of two-syllable pattern wherein the pronunciation emphasis is on the second
syllable.
________________________ 8. A direct relationship where one thing or idea substitutes

for another.
________________________ 9. Where sounds are spelled out as words; or, when words
describing sounds actually sound like the sounds they describe.
________________________ 10. A contradiction in terms.
________________________ 11. Where inanimate objects or abstract concepts are

seemingly endowed with human self-awareness; where human thoughts, actions and
perceptions are directly attributed to inanimate objects or abstract ideas.
________________________ 12. An indirect relationship where one thing or idea is

described as being similar to another. It usually contain the words “like” or “as,” but not
always.
________________________ 13. Where a specific word, phrase, or structure is repeated

several times, to emphasize a particular idea.
Lesson 3
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Write a short poem applying the various elements and
literary devices exploring innovative techniques
Name: ________________________________________ Score: ____________
Lesson 4
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Identify the various elements, techniques, and literary
devices in various modes of fiction
Name: ________________________________________ Score: ____________
Activity 1
Directions: Fill in the blank
Setting Theme
First Person Point of View Genre
____________________ 1. A central, repeated idea throughout a literary work. An author

often uses this to convey a message.
____________________ 2. A person, place, thing or event is used to represent something

else.
____________________ 3. The name used to identify a type of literature (such as drama,

poetry, or biographies)
____________________ 4. The story is told by one of the characters. The reader knows
the character’s thoughts, emotions and motives.
Lesson 5
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Write journal entries and other short compositions
exploring key elements of fiction
Name: ________________________________________ Score: ____________
FIRST GRADING
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Name: ________________________________________ Score: ____________
Test 1
Direction: Identify the letter of the correct answer. Write the letter of your answer in
the space provided.
____ 1. Written in prose format and published as a book and considered to be a long piece
of creative fiction that is believed to be possessing, demanding, and complex.
a. Narrative poetry
b. Drama
c. Novel
d. Short Story
e. Theater play
____ 2. The following are all basic types of writing except.

a. Expository
b. Expressive
c. Creative
d. Technical
e. Documentary
____ 3. It is a poem that demonstrates grief and melancholy to the dead.

a. Elegy
b. Ode
c. Corridor
d. Psalm
e. Song
____ 4. Short poems that are tainted with love, hope, joy, grief, sadness, or sorrow as
common themes.
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a. Corridos
b. Psalms
c. Songs
d. Folksongs
e. Sonnets
____ 5. A stanza with five lines is called

a. Cinquain
b. Quatrain
c. Septet
d. Tercet
e. Sexian
____ 6. A poem that provides an amusing and a happy ending.

a. Farce
b. Melodrama
c. Tragedy
d. Comedy
e. Social poem
____ 7. It employs contradictory statements or situations to show reality dissimilar from

truth.
a. Paradox
b. Irony
c. Metonymy
d. Synecdoche
e. Allegory
____ 8. __________ is the central idea or concept of the storyline.

a. Denouement
b. Theme
c. Falling action
d. Conflict
e. Point of view
____ 9. Exposes a topic analytically and objectively, like a news report.

a. Expository writing
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b. Expressive writing
c. Creative writing
d. Persuasive writing
e. Technical writing
____ 10. This brings the reader as where the story that leads the central conflict by building
a series of events in the character’s life.
a. Plot
b. Climax
c. Setting
d. Character
e. Mood
____ 11. Plays, short stories, and novels are under

a. Expository writing
b. Expressive writing
c. Creative writing
d. Persuasive writing
e. Technical writing
____ 12. An element of story that leads the central conflict by building a series of events in
the character’s life.
a. Theme
b. Mood
c. Plot
d. Protagonist
e. Antagonist
____ 13. Refers to a segment or part of something that is replaced to represent in for a
whole or vice versa.
a. Symbolism
b. Allegory
c. Paradox
d. Metonymy
e. Synecdoche
____ 14. Neither a plot or a full narrative description, but a carefully crafter verbal sketch
that might be part of some larger work, or a complete description in itself.
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a. Short story
b. Novel
c. Sonnet
d. Poem
e. Vignette
____ 15. Uses contradictory statements but in a closer examination turns out to make
sense.
a. Metaphor
b. Irony
c. Allegory
d. Symbolism
e. Paradox
____ 16. The pattern in which end rhyme occurs.

a. Onomatopoeia
b. Alliteration
c. Assonance
d. Consonance
e. Rhyme scheme
____ 17. Give the rhyme scheme of the given lines.
Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
a. aabbcc c. ababaa e. ababcc

b. bcbcaa d. ababab
____ 18. What is imagery?

a. The use of language appealing to one or more five senses
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b. A joke
c. It’s nothing, you just made it up.
d. A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible form
those of the individual words.
e. A literary practice wherein the writer embellishes the sentence by adding more
information to it in order to increase its worth and understandability.
____ 19. This refers to the use of the dictionary definition or literal meaning of the word.
a. Symbolism
b. Allegory
c. Connotation
d. Denotation
e. Diction
____ 20. It is the literary device wherein the author uses specific words and phrases that
exaggerate and overemphasize the basic crux of the statement in order to produce a
grander, more noticeable effect.
a. Irony
b. Hyperbole
c. Paradox
d. Personification
e. Synecdoche
Test 2.
Direction: Write CREATIVE if the statement is correct and if the statement is false,
write WRITING.
_______________ 1. Prose takes its form in a metered style and uses rhyme than natural
speech.
_______________ 2. A character in a short story can either be a person or an animal

taking the action of the story.
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_______________ 3. Absurd play combines dialogues, songs, and dance numbers and
accredited to Broadway for blending vaudeville, revue, melodrama, as well as operatta in
its presentation.
_______________ 4. Conflict is called the central idea or concept of the storyline.
_______________ 5. There is usually pattern, unintended or intentional, that threads the

plot together.
_______________ 6. “I’m not feeling bad” is an example of litotes.
_______________ 7. In literature, the word ‘setting’ is used to identify and establish the
time, place and mood of the events of the story.
_______________ 8. The rhyme scheme is the practice of rhyming words placed at the
end of the lines in prose or poetry.
_______________ 9. Films can be taken from the written word from a large work such as
novels and autobiography.
_______________ 10. Simile is an indirect relationship where one thing or idea is

described as being similar to another. It usually contain the words “like” or “as,” but not
always.
Test 3.
Direction: Using a Venn Diagram, give the differences and similarities of irony and
paradox. (5pts)
Irony Paradox
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REFERENCES
Abad, Gemino H. A Habit of Shores. 1st Ed. Diliman. Quezon City: University of the
Philippines Press, 1999.
Adams, Leonie. 2017. “Home-Coming.” Poets.org. Accessed April 1, 2017. https://www.
poets.org/poetsorg/poem/twilights-v
Bartel, Nick. Oedipus The King: An Abridged and Adapted Version of Sophocles’ Play.
PBS: The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization. Accessed April 10, 2017. https://www
tc.pbs.org/empire/thegreeks/educational/pdf/Oedipus_short.pdf
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. “Sonnet 43.” The Noton Anthology of Poetry, By Margaret W.
Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon Stallworthy. 1st Ed. New York: NY [u.a.]: Norton,
2005
Creative Ways: Starting To Teach Creative Writing in the English Language Classroom.
2008.PDF. London: The British Council. https://www.teachingenglish. org.uk/sites
/teaching/files/creative_ways.pdf
Earnshaw, Steven, Ed. The Handbook of Creative Writing. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University
Press, 2007
Mills, Paul. The Routledge Creative Writing Coursebook New York: Routledge, 2006
New York Writers Workshop. The Portable MFA in Creative Writing. Ohio: Writers Digest
Books, 2006
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Louyzza Maria Victoria H. Vasquez
She teaches literature and creative writing at the Diliman campus of the University of
the Philippines. Her poems have been published by Kritika Kultura, High Chair, and
Quarterly Literature Review Singapore. She was a fellow at the 14 th Ateneo National
Writers Workshop (ANWW) and the 1 st International Writing Program (IWP) Alumni Writers
Workshop. She is currently finishing her Master of Arts in Creative Writing thesis on the
poetry of witness.
Gabriel Lee
She has had her poetry and fiction published in the Philippines, Singapore, the
United States, and Australia. Her first book of short stories is titled Instructions on How to
Disappear. Her previous works include Disturbing the Universe: Poems (2006), which
received the National Commission for Culture and the Arts’ Ubod New Writers Prize, and
the children’s book La-on and the 7-Headed Dragon (2002). She received her BA in
English Studies: Creative Writing from the University of the Philippines and her MA in
Literature Studies from the National University of Singapore. She currently teaches
literature and creative writing at the Diliman campus of the University of the Philippines.
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Republic of the Philippines

Prepared by: Sir Juanito B. Eusala Jr.

SCOPE OF THE MODULE

A multi-genre introduction to the craft of creative writing. In the context of a variety of

The learners have an understanding of imagery, diction, figures of speech, and

The learners shall be able to produce a short, well-crafter poem.

Forty (40) sessions every quarter/ four days in one week.

Name: _____________________________________ ___ Score: ____________

Year and Section: ______________________________ Date: _____________

Lesson 1 Use imagery, diction, figures of speech, and specific experiences to

Name: ________________________________________ Score: ____________

Year and Section: ______________________________ Date: _____________

Alliteration Dysphemism Oxymoron

Direction: Identify the literary devices.

3. The cactus saluted those who drove past.

4. My grandmother is as wise as an owl.

5. We could hear the wind whispering words.

6. I’ll give you a hand.

A. Alliteration B. Metaphor C. Personification D. Simile

Name: ________________________________________ Score: ____________

Year and Section: ______________________________ Date: _____________

Personification Hyperbole Foreshadowing

Onomatopoeia Iambic pentameter Exposition

Figurative Language Oxymoron Repetition

_________________________ 1. Where an author interrupts a story to explain something,

_________________________ 2. Any use of language where the intended meaning differs

_________________________ 3. Where future events in a story, or perhaps the outcome,

_________________________ 4. A description which exaggerates.

_________________________ 6. Where an event occurs which is unexpected, and which

_________________________ 7. Poetry written with each line containing ten syllables, in

________________________ 8. A direct relationship where one thing or idea substitutes

________________________ 10. A contradiction in terms.

________________________ 11. Where inanimate objects or abstract concepts are

________________________ 12. An indirect relationship where one thing or idea is

________________________ 13. Where a specific word, phrase, or structure is repeated

Name: ________________________________________ Score: ____________

Year and Section: ______________________________ Date: _____________

Name: ________________________________________ Score: ____________

Year and Section: ______________________________ Date: _____________

Directions: Fill in the blank

First Person Point of View Genre

____________________ 1. A central, repeated idea throughout a literary work. An author

____________________ 2. A person, place, thing or event is used to represent something

____________________ 3. The name used to identify a type of literature (such as drama,

Name: ________________________________________ Score: ____________

Year and Section: ______________________________ Date: _____________

Name: ________________________________________ Score: ____________

Year and Section: ______________________________ Date: _____________

____ 2. The following are all basic types of writing except.

____ 3. It is a poem that demonstrates grief and melancholy to the dead.

____ 5. A stanza with five lines is called

____ 6. A poem that provides an amusing and a happy ending.

____ 7. It employs contradictory statements or situations to show reality dissimilar from

____ 8. __________ is the central idea or concept of the storyline.

____ 9. Exposes a topic analytically and objectively, like a news report.

____ 11. Plays, short stories, and novels are under

____ 16. The pattern in which end rhyme occurs.

____ 17. Give the rhyme scheme of the given lines.

Continuous as the stars that shine

a. aabbcc c. ababaa e. ababcc

____ 18. What is imagery?

_______________ 2. A character in a short story can either be a person or an animal

Name: ___________________________________ _ Score: ____________

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8. ______ is the central idea or concept of the storyline.