Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Department of Education
National Capital Region
DIVISION OF CITY SCHOOLS – MANILA
Manila Education Center Arroceros Forest Park
Antonio J. Villegas St. Ermita, Manila
CREATIVE WRITING
0
HOW TO USE THIS MODULE
Before you start answering the module, I want you to set aside other tasks
that will distract you while enjoying the lessons. Read the simple instructions
below to successfully enjoy the objectives of this kit. Have fun!
1. Follow carefully all the contents and instructions indicated in every
page of this module.
2. Write on your notebook or any writing pad the concepts about the
lessons. Writing enhances learning, which is important to develop
and keep in mind.
3. Perform all the provided activities in the module.
4. Let your facilitator/guardian assess your answers.
5. Analyze conceptually the posttest and apply what you have learned.
6. Enjoy studying!
1
Lesson
Imagery, Diction, and
1 Figures of Speech
EXPECTATIONS
You are expected here to produce short paragraphs or vignettes using
imagery, diction, figures of speech, and variations of language.
Specifically, this module will help you to:
use imagery, diction, figures of speech, and specific experiences, and;
write a brief literary description or a short paragraph through making
sense of pictures and songs.
Let us begin your journey in creative writing. I am sure you are ready and
excited to answer the Pretest. Smile and cheer up!
2
Great! You finished answering the questions. You may request your facilitator to
check your work. Congratulations and keep on learning!
Example:
An excerpt from Peter Redgrove’s Lazarus and the Sea contains imagery:
The tide of my death came whispering like this
Soiling my body with its tireless voice.
I scented the antique moistures when they sharpened
The air of my room, made the rough wood of my bed, (most dear),
Standing out like roots in my tall grave.
Example:
“I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold,
Or all the riches that East doth hold.”
- Anne Bradstreet, “To My Dear and Loving Husband”
• The use of antiquated words such as “thy” instead of “your” and “doth”
instead of “do” gives the poem a formal diction.
• These antiquated words are considered grand, elevated, and sophisticated
language.
FIGURES OF SPEECH
Figures of speech are words or phrases used in a non-literal sense for
rhetorical or vivid effect.
3
3. Onomatopoeia – uses words that imitate sounds associated with objects or
actions.
Example: “The crooked skirt swinging, whack by whack by whack.”
- James Joyce, “Ulysses”
4. Personification – endows human qualities or abilities to inanimate objects
or abstraction.
Example: “Ah, William, we’re wary of the weather,” said the sunflowers
shining with dew. – William Blake, “Two Sunflowers Move in the Yellow
Room”
5. Apostrophe – is addressing an absent person or thing that is an abstract,
inanimate, or inexistent character.
Example: “Death be not proud, though some have called thee.”
- John Donne, “Death Be Not Proud”
6. Hyperbole – a figure of speech which contains an exaggeration for emphasis.
Example: “To make enough noise to wake the dead.”
– R. Davies, “What’s Bred in the Bone”
7. Synecdoche – a figure of speech in which the part stands for the whole, and
thus something else is understood within the thing mentioned.
Example: “Give us this day out daily bread”
*Bread stands for the meals taken each day.
8. Metonymy – a figure of speech in which the name of an attribute or a thing
is substituted for the thing itself.
Example: “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.”
– William Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar”
*Lend me your ears = to pay attention; to listen
9. Oxymoron – a figure of speech which combines incongruous and
apparently contradictory words and meanings for a special effect.
Example: “Here’s much to do with hate, but more with love.
Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate!
O anything! of nothing first create!
O heavy lightness! serious vanity!
Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms!”
- William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet”
10. Paradox – a statement which seems on its face to be logically contradictory
or absurd yet turns out to be interpretable in a way that makes sense.
Example: “One short sleep past, we wake eternally
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.”
- John Donne, “Death Be Not Proud”
1. “Ebony and ivory / Live together in perfect harmony” (McCartney & Wonder)
2. “Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health,
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!” (Shakespeare)
4
3. “Pity, you ancient stones, those tender babes
Whom envy hath immured within your walls” (Shakespeare)
4. “He watches from his mountain walls, and like a thunderbolt he falls.”
(Tennyson)
5. “That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me.” (Donne)
6. “Even at night time, Mama is sunrise.” (Hunt)
7. “The western wave was all a-flame. The day was well nigh done!” (Coleridge)
8. “A day was twenty-four hours long but seemed longer. There was no hurry,
for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with…”
(Lee)
9. “…the glish of squirting taps plus slush of foam knocked off and a faint
piddle of drops...” (e.e. cummings)
10. “Fall had barely touched the full splendor of trees…” (Knowles)
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
5
Bring out the music in me!
Directions: Select one song inside the boxes which piqued your interest. Using
your smartphone or computer, listen to the song in any video or music streaming
website you prefer. After listening, read and accomplish what is described below.
Write a about a memory triggered by the music you have chosen. Think of where you
are when you last heard the music and what it meant for you. Include any images
that come into mind. Be sure to make your paragraph interesting by using different
figures of speech.
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
Imagery is used to signify all the objects and qualities of sense perception
referred to in works of literature.
Diction refers to the kinds of words, phrases, and sentence structures, and
sometimes also figurative language, that constitute any work of literature.
6
Figure of speech is an expression that departs from the accepted literal
sense or from the normal order of words, or in which an emphasis is produced by
patterns of sound.
7
REFLECTIVE LEARNING SHEET
Directions: Write a reflective learning about what you have learned about imagery,
diction, and figures of speech by answering the questions inside the box.
You may express your answers in a more critical and creative
presentation of your great learning. Have fun and enjoy!
WHAT I NEED TO
WHAT I LIKED THE WHAT I WANT TO
IMPROVE IN
MOST ABOUT THE LEARN CONNECTED
UNDERSTANDING
LESSON TO THE LESSON
THE LESSON
• • •
• • •
• • •
• • •
8
REFERENCES
Abrams, M. H., & Harpham, G. G. (1999). A glossary of literary terms. Boston,
Mass: Thomson Wadsworth.
Acknowledgements
KEY ANSWERS
D 2) A 3) C 4) B 5) A 1)
PRE-TEST
9
10
POST TEST
1) B 2) A 3) D 4) C 5) A