Creative Writing

QUARTER 3
LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET
No. 2

ELEMENTS, TECHNIQUES AND LITERARY DEVICES OF POETRY

Subject Area and Grade Level: Creative Writing
Activity Sheet No. 1
First Edition, 2021

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ELEMENTS, TECHNIQUES AND LITERARY DEVICES OF POETRY

I.Introduction:

Poetry has unique characteristics compared to other forms of creative

writing. It has its many elements that differentiates it from any other forms of
creative writing. Thus, read this activity sheet thoroughly that you may
understand fully its content. Enjoy doing your task!

II. MELC (with Code)

Identify the various elements, techniques, and literary devices in specific

forms of poetry. (UMSS_CW/MP11/12cf-6)

III. Strategy
Try to write an English 2-stanza poem just to check your
understanding about poem.

A. Explore

B. Learn
Poetry is a word composition arranged in a rhythmic pattern. It is used to
express one’s creative thoughts and feelings through a specialized and
heightened language.
Poetry is a combination of words in lines, rhyme, tone, voice, theme,
language, and emotion which makes it a creative means to liberate the poet’s
thoughts and feelings. While one can freely write a poem, it is still necessary
to know the different elements of poetry.

Elements of Poetry
1. Theme
The theme is the summarized statement containing the main thought or
meaning of the poem

2. Tone
Tone refers to the attitude and mood of the poem. It is the overall
atmosphere of the poem which influences the emotional response of the
reader.
3. Rhyme
Rhyme is the link between music and poetry. It adds quality to the poem
which gives the readers reading pleasure. The following are the different
types of rhymes:

Types Characteristics Sample

Time Rhyme Rhyme that occurs “Here, Captain! Dear Father! This
on the words arm beneath your head.
It is some dream that on the
deck, You’ve fallen cold and
dead.”
(Oh Captain, My Captain, Walt
Whitman)
Internal Rhyme Rhyme that occur “Once upon a midnight dreary,
within the lines. while I pondered, weak and
weary.”
(The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe)
Off Rhyme or Not a true rhyme “In the sun and in the snow,
slant rhyme but the sound of the Without pleasure, without pain,
words is alike. On the dead oak tree bough.”
(The Gallows, Edward Thomas)
4. Line and Meter
The line is the line of words in poetry. The verse is the line of the poem
arranged in a metrical pattern. Stanza is referred as the “unit of poetic
lines”. There are different stanza forms. Below are the following:

Forms Number of Lines

Couplet 2
Tercet 3
Quatrain 4
Quintet 5
Sestet 6
Septet 7
Octave 8

The meter is poetry’s measured accents and syllables arrangement. It is

the systematic sound pattern of a poem.
 Metrical Patterns Characteristics
Accentual Meter Lines have the same number of
stresses and varied count of
syllables
Syllabic Meter Lines have the same number of
syllables and varied count of
stresses
Accentual-Syllabic Meter Lines have the same number of
syllables, both stressed and non-
stressed; arranged in fixed order.
Free Verse Lines have irregular number of
stresses and syllables.

5. Genre
The following are the three types of poetry:

Type Characteristics Sample Forms

Descriptive Poem Focuses on details Didactic Poem

Narrative Poem Tells a story Epic, ballad

Lyric Poem Expresses the Ode, sonnet,

feelings and thoughts dramatic monolog
of the poet.

6. Literary Devices
The literary devices discussed in the first LAS should also be
incorporated in the poem such as imagery and figurative language. This
is to make the poem appealing to the readers.

C. Engage
Identify the following definitions by which it’s being defined to
base on what you have read above.
1. An element of a poem which links between music and poetry.
2. The attitude and mood of the poem.
3. The summarized statement containing the main thought or meaning of a
poem.
4. A type of poem that tells a story.
5. It expresses the feelings and thoughts of the poet.
6. When a poem has six lines in each stanza is called __________.
7. A metrical pattern which lines have irregular number of stresses and
syllables.
8. It is used to express one’s creative thoughts and feelings through a
specialized and heightened language.
9. It is the poetry’s measured accents and syllables arrangement.
10.A rhyme that occurs on the word.
 D. Apply:
Read the following poem.

‘I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You’

Pablo Neruda
I do not love you except because I love you;
I go from loving to not loving you,
From waiting to not waiting for you
My heart moves from cold to fire.

I love you only because it's you the one I love;

I hate you deeply, and hating you
Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you
Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.

Maybe January light will consume

My heart with its cruel
Ray, stealing my key to true calm.

In this part of the story I am the one who

Dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you,
Because I love you, Love, in fire and blood.

Analyze the poem by identifying the elements and literary devices observed.

 What is the theme of the poem?

 What is the tone of the poem?
 What is the rhyme of the poem?
 What is the line and meter of the poem?
 What is the genre of the poem?
 Is there an imagery of the poem, if there is, which line?
 Is there a figures of speech of the poem, identify what line and what figures
of speech?

IV. Rubrics

Indicator Rating 1-5

The essay contains all the figurative languages
discussed.
The essay is written in the informal language.
It is in proper form with correct grammar, spelling and
proper punctuations.
The essay captures the interest of the reader.
Total
V. References
Buhisan, Arnold Jarn Ford and Ayesha H. Sayseng, “Creative
Writing” K-12 Compliant Worktext for the Senior High School, JFS
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