SAINT ANTHONY’S ACADEMY OF GONZAGA

SCHOOL YEAR 2020-2021

SUBJECT: CREATIVE WRITING/ MALIKHAING PAGSULAT
I. INTRODUCTION
Welcome to the Creative Writing Subject! The hand is one of the most symbolized parts of the human body. It is often
used to depict skill, action and purpose. Through our hands we may learn, create and accomplish. Hence, the hand in this
learning resource signifies that you as a learner is capable and empowered to successfully achieve the relevant
competencies and skills at your own pace and time. Your academic success lies in your own hands!
This module was prepared to provide you with fun and meaningful opportunities for guided and independent learning
at your own pace and time. You will enable to process the contents of the learning resource while being active learner.
II. STANDARD
The learners have an understanding of imagery, diction, figures of speech, and variations on language.

FIRST QUARTER: MODULE 1

“CREATIVE WRITING”

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 Examples of technical writing are end user documentation like user manuals that accompany cellular phones,
personal computers, or laptop; traditional technical writing such as legal analysis; summary of experiments for journal
publications, or articles for trade publication; and technological marketing communications such as sales pitch about a
new computer hardware or software to a new client. It includes trainings, manuals, operation guides, and promotional
brochures.
Let’s look at the fundamental differences between creative and technical writing.
IMAGINATIVE WRITING TECHNICAL WRITING
Fictional and Imaginative Factual
Entertaining, Provocative, Captivating Informative, Instructional or Persuasive
Artistic, Figurative, Symbolic or even Vague Clear, Precise, Straightforward
Subjective Objective
Generalized Vocabulary Specialized Vocabulary

Activity 1: BATTLE OF WRITING

Directions: Write IW if the writing is an example of Imaginative Writing and write TW if it is an example of Technical
Writing. Write your answer in your paper/notebook.
1. “Let me not to the marriage of true minds, Admit impediments, Love is not love”. - Sonnet 116 by William
Shakespeare
2. “He could not have been bigger than this,” the frog said. But the little Frogs all declared that the monster was much,
much bigger…” -Aesop Fable : The Frog and the Fox
3. “It isn’t a new problem. Addiction is an ugly foe that ruins lives.” – Editorial entitled “Drug Addiction” A Public
Health Crisis
4. “Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there maybe in silence. As far as possible, without
surrender, be on good terms with all persons.” – Desiderata by Max Ehrmann
5. “According to the Indian census, carried out in 2011, the population of India was exactly 1,210,193,422, which means
India has crossed the 1-billion mark.” - News Overpopulation in India
6. “All creatures great and small; all things wise and wonderful, the Lord God made them all “ All Things Bright &
Beautiful by Cecil Frances Alexander
7. “The little prince “tells the story of a pilot stranded in the desert fixing his airplane, until one day he meets a little boy –
the Little Prince. “ - Book Review: The Little Prince
8. School absenteeism is an alarming problem for administrators, teachers, parents, society in general, and pupils in
particular. Unaccepted absences have a negative effect on peer relationships, which can cause further absences. Action
Research on Student and Pupil Absenteeism in School
9. The Intruder is a 2019 American psychological thriller film directed by Deon Taylor and written by David Loughery.
The film stars Michael Ealy and Meagan Good as a couple who buy a house in the country, only to realize its previous
owner refuses to let it go. - The Intruder Movie
10. “Who am I that the Lord of all the earth would care to know my name, would care to feel my hurt? - Who am I by
Casting Crowns

LESSON 2: SENSORY DETAILS

Sensory Imagery includes the utilization of elucidating language to make mental pictures. In abstract terms, it is a sort of
symbolism; the thing that matters is that tangible symbolism works by drawing in a reader's five senses. It is an artistic
gadget author utilizes to draw in a reader's brain on numerous levels. This investigates the five human detects: sight,
sound, taste, contact, and smell.

VISUAL IMAGERY engages the sense of sight. Descriptions can be associated to Visual Imagery. Physical attributes
including color, size, shape, lightness and darkness, shadows, and shade are all part of visual imagery. The text in italics is
some examples of lines using visual imagery.
Her phone signalled, immediately setting her teeth on edge. She looked at the broken screen, saw his name, and
slapped the phone back down on her desk.
Armani stretched across her couch, legs twitching excitedly, and he knew he must be dreaming of the kittens he
tries to capture every morning when he is at the dirty kitchen.

GUSTATORY IMAGERY engages the sense of taste. Flavors are the considerations in gustatory imagery which
includes the five basic taste such as sweet, salty, bitter, sour, and umami—as well as the textures and sensations tied to the
act of eating.
The food tasted good.
The sweet fondant icing melted on my tongue. The word delightful came to mind.
Summer has always tasted like hot chocolate to me. His kisses tasted like strawberries under the sun.

AUDITORY IMAGERY engages the sense of hearing. Sound devices such as onomatopoeia and alliteration can help
create sounds in writing.
Erick sat alone at the bench nearest the main door so he wouldn't miss Via. The room was noisy. The clang of
heavy dishes glided from the kitchen. Ice tinkled as it settled in his water glass. His watch read 9:30. She wasn't coming.

OLFACTORY IMAGERY engages the sense of smell. Simile is common in using olfactory imagery, because it lets
writers to compare a particular scent to common smells like dirt, grass, manure, or roses. The use of scents and stinks are
common ways to use olfactory imagery.
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The scent of “latik” when my mother cooks rice cake is really nostalgic to me.
The street going to their house stinks of manure and the courtyard of urine, the stairwells stank of moldering wood and
rat droppings.

TACTILE IMAGERY engages the sense of touch. The feel, textures and many sensations a human being experiences
when touching something are associated in tactile imagery. Differences in temperature is also a part of tactile imagery.
When we quickly plunge into the cool water, it took our breath away and raised goose bumps to our arms. We had had
been swimming in this pond since we were kids.

In other references, there is a sixth sense which called Kinesthetic imagery engages the feeling of movement.
This can be similar to tactile imagery but deals more with full-body sensations, such as those experienced during exercise.
Rushing water, flapping wings, and pounding hearts are all examples of kinesthetic imagery.

Activity 2: SensoWriting
Directions: Define the following words using sensory image given. Utilize your senses well and be creative. Put your
answer in a yellow paper.
Example:
Birds tweet- sense of hearing
“tiny sweet voice giving relaxation”
1. fire – sense of touch
2. ice cream – sense of taste
3. mirror – sense of sight
4. rain – sense of smell
5. ambulance – sense of hearing

LESSON 3: LANGUAGE: IMAGERY

IMAGE
 Image is a representation of an experience or object perceived through the senses – sight, smell, taste, touch and
hearing.
 An image does not always suggest the same thing to all readers because readers have different sets of experiences.
 An image, however, enables readers to evoke specific emotions, which shall approximate the experience the author
wishes to create.
 Mental pictures stimulated by words that appeal to the senses. A single image or comparison extending throughout
the literary work, thus shaping its meianing is called controlling image.
IMAGERY
 It most commonly refers to the visual pictures within a work produced verbally; though it is often defined more
broadly to include sensory experiences, other than the visual.
 Imagery is a literary device of forming images collectively (Webster’s Dictionary of the English Language, 1992).
 This refers to words and phrases that create vivid sensory; is used to signify all the objects and qualities of sense
perception referred to other works of literature.
Imagery is categorized into five types:
Visual imagery – objects that provoke the sense of sight
Auditory imagery – those that trigger the sense of hearing
Olfactory imagery - those that stimulate the sense of smell
Tactile imagery - those that apprehend the sense of touch
Gustatory imagery - those that compel the sense of taste

Activity 3: Sense Chart

Directions: What do you give/offer to the one you love? Read the poem silently and identify 5 word/phrases each found
in the poem that triggers your senses, write your answer in the “Sense Chart” below.

THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERED TO HIS LOVE

by Christopher Marlowe
Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove,
That Valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods, or steepy mountain yields.
And we will sit upon the Rocks,
Seeing the Shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow Rivers to whose falls
Melodious birds sing Madrigals.
And I will make thee beds of Roses
And a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
Embroidered all with leaves of Myrtle;
A gown made of the finest wool
Which from our pretty Lambs we pull;
Fair lined slippers for the cold,
With buckles of the purest gold;
A belt of straw and Ivy buds,
With Coral clasps and Amber studs:

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And if these pleasures may thee move, For thy delight each May-morning:
Come live with me, and be my love. If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me, and be my love.
The Shepherds’ Swains shall dance and
sing

LESSON 4: DICTION
Diction is the author’s choice or selection of words or vocabulary; the artistic arrangement that words constitute.
Good writing makes good use of diction. The words should be right and accurate, appropriate to the context in which they
are used, and comprehensible to the intended audience. Otherwise, a message maybe perceived differently or erroneously
from the intended message.
What is diction error?
A diction error is a “wrong word” error. Diction error is a word that almost sounds right. For instance, if an
employer says “We interviewed perspective candidates”, she has committed an error in diction. Instead, ‘prospective’,
not ‘perspective’ should be used. Perspective means point of view, but prospective means potential.
Thus, “We interviewed prospective candidates”, is more appropriate.

Correcting Diction Error

1. That there woman is our teacher.
‘There’ is misplaced in the sentence. Thus, the better way of writing it is: “That woman there is our teacher.”
2. The teacher will learn us the rules.
The word ‘learn’ is inappropriately used. Thus, it is better to say: “The teacher will teach us the rules.”
3. In this class, all accept one boy passed.
‘Accept’ means to take, receive or admit. Considering the context, the sentence means that all boys except for one.
Thus: “In this class, all except one boy passed.”

Activity 4: CORRECTING ERRORS

Directions: Rearrange the words or group of words to make a coherent sentence. Write it in your yellow paper.
1. To the movies we are going.
2. Did you ever speak to him? Yes, I was speaking to him yesterday.
3. I like to run, jumping and playing.
4. To the city we are heading.
5. From the old recipe she removed the index card.

LESSON 5: FIGURES OF SPEECH

A figure of speech is a rhetorical device that achieves a special effect by using words in a distinctive way. Though there
are hundreds of figures of speech, here we'll focus on 20 top examples.
You'll probably remember many of these terms from your English classes. Figurative language is often associated with
literature and with poetry in particular. Whether we're conscious of it or not, we use figures of speech every day in our
own writing and conversations.

Some Figures of Speech

Using original figures of speech in our writing is an approach to pass on implications in new, surprising ways. They can
enable our readers to comprehend and remain puzzled by what we need to state.

1. Alliteration: The repetition of an initial consonant sound. Example: Betty Botter bought some butter.
2. Anaphora: The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses. Example:
Unexpetedly, we were in the wrong event at the wrong time on the wrong day.
3. Apostrophe: Directly stating or calling a nonexistent person or an inanimate object as though it were a living being. It
commonly uses an exclamation point as a punctuation. Example: "Oh, rain! Rain! Where are are you? Rain, we really
need you right now. Our town needs you badly.”
4. Assonance: It is the repetition of the vowel sounds in the structure of sentences or lines. Example: We shall meet on the
beach to reach the “Meach” Concert.
5. Hyperbole: An overstatement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect. Example:
I have a ton of homework to do when I get home. I need to go home now.

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6. Irony: It is a statement or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or showing the concept. The
use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning is the highlight of irony. Example: Thalia received a very high
grade in her quiz resulting that her mother got mad.
7. Metaphor: An implied comparison between two dissimilar things that have something in common. Example: "All the
world's a stage.” of As You Like It
8. Metonymy: A word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated; Linking words that are
related to the word to be replaced. Example: The use of the word vow instead of wedding, the pen stands for "the written
word.
9. Onomatopoeia: The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to. Example:
The clap of thunder went bang and scared my poor dog.
10. Oxymoron: It is the combination of contradictory or incongruous words such as cruel kindness; Example: “bitter
sweet”
11. Personification: The utilization of inanimate objects or abstraction to associate with human qualities or abilities.
Example: The leaves of the Fire tree are dancing with the wind during dry season in our country.
12. Simile: The comparison between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common using like
or as. Example: Michael was white as a sheet after he walked out of the horror movie.
13. Synecdoche: A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole. Example: Mark is asking for the hand
of our daughter.

Activity 5: SPOT-it-fy
Directions: Below are the lists of songs that you need to listen. Spot a line/s that is considered as figures of speech and
identify what kind of figures of speech was used.
Kind of Figures of Speech
Title of a Song Lyrics/ Lines
used
I have died everyday waiting for
EXAMPLE: Thousand Years
you. I love you for a thousand Hyperbole
by Christina Perry
more.
1. Like I’m Gonna Loose You
by Meghan Trainor
2. Lay Me Down by Sam Smith

3. All of Me by John Legend

4.Shape of you by Ed Sheeran

5. You are the Reason by Calum
Scott

V. NEW IDEAS
After going through this module, what Anthonian attitude did you develop? As an Anthonian, I develop
_________________________________________.

VI. EVALUATION:
Directions: Now that you have learned about the introduction to Creative Writing, you can now write your first ever
output as your final output in this module. Since we are celebrating the Season of Creation this month of September, you
are to write a short paragraph or vignettes on how to renew baptismal call to care and sustain ecological life for our
common home – Earth to become a true steward of creation. Compose an essay using imagery, diction and figures of
speech. You are graded with the following criteria.
EXCELLENT SATISFACTORY FAIR POOR
CRITERIA SCORE
5 4 3 2
CONTENT Fully relative to the Partially relative with Not relative to the
Mostly relative to the
(To what extent was the topic. minor errors. topic at all
topic without errors.
original thinking relative to Point of view fully Point of view Point of view
Point of view presented
the topic? To what extent did presented and expressed but limited presented without
and supported with some
the writer present his/her supported by many use of factual use of supporting
facts.
point of view?) facts. information. facts/opinion only.
ORGANIZATION OF In depth
THOUGHTS understanding: key Complete lack of
Key concepts related to Key concepts are
(Understanding of the topic concepts related to the reference to the
the topic and the story are partially identified and
and incorporation of imagery topic and the story are topic; irrelevant
adequately identified and defined; statement that
and figures of speech) identifies and fully information;
defined. Average use of viewpoints exist but
defined; excellent use unsupported
literary techniques to little use of supporting
of literary techniques statements,
describe viewpoints. details.
such as imagery and incomplete details.
figures of speech.
MECHANICS Literary style Literary style partially Use of literary Irrelevant and/or
(Diction, punctuation, completely clear and clear and effective, good technique to convey erroneous
spelling, capitalization and effective, excellent grammar and spelling. main ideas but lacking information, main
grammar) grammar and spelling. Sentence structure clarity. Sentence ideas unclear,
Varied sentence somewhat varied; essay structure lacks variety illegible, grammar

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 structure, essay well and spelling errors
well developed and but essay mostly
developed and consistent
cohesive. developed.
cohesive. throughout essay.
TOTAL

(Vignette - a short descriptive literary sketch; a brief incident or scene).

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