Creative Writing

Quarter 1: Module 2
Activity 3:
1. To swell the gourd and plump the hazel shells
x / x / x / x / x /
To swell|the gourd| and plum the ha|zel shells.
Answer: Iambic pentameter
2. Tell me not in mournful numbers
/ x / x / x / x
Tell me| not in| mourn|ful num/bers.
Answer: Trochaic tetrameter
3. Cannon to right of them
/ x x / x /
Can|non to |right|of |them
Answer: Dactylic dimeter
4. The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold.
x / x / x / x / x / x
The Assy|rian| came down| like a wolf| in the fold.
Answer: Iambic pentameter
5. Cry, cry, Troy Burns
/ / x x
Cry|cry| Troy Burns.
Answer: Spondaic Pattern

Activity 4:
Haiku
 Three-liner poem
 5/7/5 rule
Sonnet
 14-line poem
 Iambic pentameter
 Ends up in rhyming couplet
Black Verse
 Iambic parameter
 Does not rhyme
 No fixed number of lines
 Introduced by an English poet, Henry Howard
Limerick
 Five lines
 AABBA rhyme scheme
 Usually humorous
Tanka
 Related to Haiku
 31 syllables
Cinquain
 Five-line poem
 ABABB, ABAAB or ABCCB
 Introduced by Adeliade Crapsey, American Poet
 Inspired from Haiku and Tanka
  The first syllable is unstressed and the second is stressed in
the first line
 Line two has two stresses; line three has three stresses; line
four has fours stresses; and line five has one stress

Activity 6:
a.
1. One
2. Third point of view
3. Nature (sea, sky, etc.) n
4. Sonnet
5. Formal
6. The poet teaches on how to write a poem with nature
as reference
7. Bright
8. The theme in the poem is about what qualities can
make poetry good by using nature as a metaphor.
b.
1. Magical- sea-gull
Moving-flowering
Bell-well
Bows-rose
Hear-dear
Hide-bride
Hover-cover
2. ABCDE
3. Iambic trimeter
c.
 1. hold fire-tactile
bird’s flowering- visual
luminance of dove and deer- auditory
2. It must kneel like a rose- metaphor, simile
It must be slender as a bell- simile
A poem must be magical then musical as a sea-gull-
personification, simile
3. Allegory, since the whole poem uses the parts of nature as
a metaphor.
4. Yes, it has repeated “It must” many times.
5. dove and deer- assonance
smiling from the poem’s cover- consonance
A poem must be magical then musical- alliteration

Activity 7:

Literary elements are

important aspect of
poetry and refers to the
characteristics of the
whole tex

Literary devices are used to highlight the

literal meaning of words by including Literary technique refers to
sound, form, and function how writers construct language
to convey their message
 Invisible Enemy
The unseen enemy is here.
It claimed millions of lives, be safe!
If you want to live.