WHOLE BRAIN LEARNING SYSTEM

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ENGLISH – SHS
GRADE
CREATIVE WRITING
12

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LEARNING QUARTER

MODULE WEEK 3

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 MODULE IN
CREATIVE WRITING

QUARTER I
WEEK 3

FORMS OF POETRY
Development Teams
Writer: Maria Consuelo R. Balena
Sheila Mae C. Villa
Rey Mark S. Jose
Editor: Maria Corazon H. Retutal Angela A. Garganta
Reviewer: Jacinto B. Pascua
Illustrators: Janet Rivera
Lay-out Artist: Roger C. Vea
Management Team: Vilma D. Eda Joye D. Madalipay
Lourdes B. Arucan Juanito V. Labao
Regina Genelin C. Nagtalon Adelyn C. Domingo

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 What I Need to Know

Most Essential Learning Competencies: Identify the various elements, techniques, and
literary devices in specific forms of poetry

Objectives: at the end of the module, the learners should be able to:

a. distinguish the differences between the different types of traditional and of

contemporary poetry;
b. analyze the rhyme, meter and caesura of a traditional poem and of a
contemporary poem; and
c. apply the different characteristics of conventional and of free verse poems
through poetry writing.

What I Know

DIRECTIONS: Read the following statement and answer the question that follows or
complete the statement by choosing an answer from the given choice. Source: (Stone 2020)

1. What is the term that refers to any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound in a
poem?
A. accented syllable C. rhyme
B. Meter D. rhythm

2. The syllable in a word that carries the stress is considered

A. accented C. rhetorical
B. unaccented D. prose

3. Except for its line arrangement, there is no necessary difference between the
rhythms of prose and this type of poetry.
A. free verse C. blank verse
B. rhymed verse D. rhetorical verse

4. Pauses that occur within lines, either grammatical, physical, or rhetorical are
called__________.
A. caesuras C. meter
B. rhythm D. spondee

5. This is a new type of poetry that depends entirely on ordinary prose rhythms, but also
pays specific attention to connotation, imagery, figurative language, and evocative
language.
A. prose poem C. blank verse
B. sonnet D. ode

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 6. The identifying characteristic of rhythmic language that we can tap our foot to is
called ____________.
A. foot C. rhythm
B. meter D. stress

7. What metrical foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable?

A. Iambic C. trochaic
B. anapestic D. dactylic

8. What metrical foot consists of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable?

A. Iambic C. trochaic
B. anapestic D. dactylic

9. A line of poetry containing a three feet of meter is labeled as_______.

A. monometer C. dimeter
B. trimeter D. pentameter

10. A foot consisting of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable is called
a _____ foot.
A. Iambic C. trochaic
B. anapestic D. dactylic

Lesson
Forms of Poetry
113
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought
and the thought has found words.”- Robert Frost
(BrainyQuote 2020)

One of the ways a creative writer expresses himself is through poetry writing. As what
the aforementioned quote by Robert Frost, a famous American poet, said, it is the emotions
and thoughts of a person put into words. In this lesson, you will explore the different forms of
traditional and of contemporary forms of poetry, as well as rhyme, caesura and meter.

What’s In

Poetry is an art, and with that comes the skill of using words creatively. One must be
equipped, not only with passion in writing, but also with knowledge in the different literary
devices that embody a poem.

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Activity 1. 7 days, 7 lines. Write a one-line sentence or phrase about each day last week.
Incorporate imagery and figures of speech to your work. Do this in your notebook. (Stein 2018)

Monday, ___________________________________
Tuesday, __________________________________
Wednesday, ________________________________
Thursday, __________________________________
Friday, _____________________________________
Saturday, ___________________________________
Sunday, ____________________________________

What’s New

Symbolism is a technique used in writing when one thing stands for

something else (familyfriend poems 2018). This is also commonly used in poetry
writing to convey its message in a non-literal way.

Activity 2. Draw it! Draw a symbol (e.g. animal, object or place) that you think describes
poetry. Explain your drawing in five sentences. Do this in your notebook.

Poetry (Draw here.)

is like a/an

______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________

What is It

“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.”

- Rita Dove, American poet
(BrainyQuote 2020)

Poetry is language arranged in lines. It attempts to recreate emotions and

experiences like other forms of creative writing. Poetry, however, is more condensed and
suggestive than prose. Because poetry frequently does not include the kind of detail and

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explanation found in prose, poetry tends to leave more to the reader’s imagination. Poetry
also may require more work on the reader’s part to unlock the meaning (Applebee, et al.
2000).

Poetry can be categorized into two:

A. The Conventional Poetry
A traditional or conventional poem is a poem that adheres to a definite
verse structure or set of characteristics. It is characterized by the following elements:
1. Meter
It is the repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry. The meter of a
poem is like the beat of a song in that it establishes a predictable means of
emphasis. (Applebee, et al. 2000) Each unit of meter is known as a foot, with
each foot having one stressed ( ˊ ) or one or two unstressed ( ˘ )syllables.

Types of
Description
metrical feet
iamb Unstressed syllable followed by stressed syllable ( ˘ ˊ )
trochee stressed syllable followed by unstressed syllable ( ˊ ˘ )
anapest two unstressed syllable followed by stressed syllable ( ˘ ˘ ˊ )
stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllable
dactyl
(ˊ ˘ ˘ )
Source: (Bernales 2017)

A line of poetry is named not only for the type of meter but also for the number of
feet in a line.
Types of
metrical Description
names
Trimeter or
Three-foot line
terza rima
Tetrameter or
four-foot line
quatrains
Pentameter or
five-foot line
cinquains
Hexameter or
six-foot line
sestet
Source: (Bernales 2017)

2. Rhyme
Words rhyme when the sound of their accented vowels and all the succeeding
sounds are identical (Applebee, et al. 2000).

Types of
Description and example
rhyme

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 The consonants that precede the vowel must be different.
True rhyme Example: day - May
mat - pat
It occurs at the ends of lines of poetry.
Example: “With social figurines,
End rhyme
Sleeping like margarines.”
Excerpt from For Filipino Teachers by Edgar A. Baguio
End rhyme that is not exact but approximate like other and
Off rhyme
bother
Rhyme that occurs between a single line
Internal Ex: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and
rhyme weary
Excerpt from The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
Source: (Bernales 2017)
3. Caesura
It is a strong pause within a line and may be marked like this //.
Example:
Excerpt from Act II, Scene I of Shakespeare’s Winter Tales
It is for you we speak, // not for ourselves
You are abused // and by some putter on
Types of Conventional Poem
1. Haiku
A traditional Japanese haiku is a three-line poem with seventeen syllables,
written in a 5/7/5 syllable count. Often focusing on images from nature, haiku
emphasizes simplicity, intensity, and directness of expression (Academy of American
Poets n.d.).
An old pond!
A frog jumps in—
the sound of water.
Written by Matsou Basho

The light of a candle

is transferred to another candle—
spring twilight.
Written by Yosa Buson

2. Tanka
The tanka is a thirty-one-syllable poem, traditionally written in a single unbroken
line. A form of waka, Japanese song or verse, tanka translates as "short song," and is
better known in its five-line, 5/7/5/7/7 syllable count form. (Academy of American Poets
n.d.)

Though love has grown cold

The woods are bright with flowers,
Why not as of old
Go to the wildwood bowers
And dream of--bygone hours!
Written by Sadakichi Hartman

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 3. Blank Verse
It refers to poetry that does not rhyme but follows a regular meter, most
commonly iambic pentameter. Shakespeare famously used iambic pentameter across
his writings, such as in this excerpted monologue from Act 1 of Macbeth (Academy of
American Poets n.d.):

O, that this too solid flesh would melt,

Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!
Or that the Everlasting had not fixed
His canon gainst self-slaughter! O God, O God!
How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world!

4. Sonnet
Traditionally, the sonnet is a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter,
employing one of several rhyme schemes, and adhering to a tightly structured thematic
organization. The name is taken from the Italian sonetto, which means "a little sound
or song." (Academy of American Poets n.d.)

Types of Sonnet

a. Petrarchan Sonnet

The first and most common sonnet is the Petrarchan, or Italian. Named after
one of its greatest practitioners, the Italian poet Petrarch, the Petrarchan sonnet is
divided into two stanzas, the octave (the first eight lines) followed by the answering
sestet (the final six lines). The tightly woven rhyme scheme, abba, abba, cdecde
or cdcdcd, is suited for the rhyme-rich Italian language, though there are many fine
examples in English. Since the Petrarchan presents an argument, observation,
question, or some other answerable charge in the octave, a turn, or volta, occurs
between the eighth and ninth lines. This turn marks a shift in the direction of the
foregoing argument or narrative, turning the sestet into the vehicle for the
counterargument, clarification, or whatever answer the octave demands
(Academy of American Poets n.d.).

Sonnet 101 [Ways apt and new to sing of love I'd find]
Petrarch

Ways apt and new to sing of love I'd find,

Forcing from her hard heart full many a sigh,
And re-enkindle in her frozen mind
Desires a thousand, passionate and high;

O'er her fair face would see each swift change pass,
See her fond eyes at length where pity reigns,
As one who sorrows when too late, alas!
For his own error and another's pains;

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 See the fresh roses edging that fair snow
Move with her breath, that ivory descried,
Which turns to marble him who sees it near;
See all, for which in this brief life below
Myself I weary not but rather pride
That Heaven for later times has kept me here.

b. Shakespearean Sonnet
The second major type of sonnet, the Shakespearean, or English sonnet,
follows a different set of rules. Here, three quatrains and a couplet follow this rhyme
scheme: abab, cdcd, efef, gg. The couplet plays a pivotal role, usually arriving in
the form of a conclusion, amplification, or even refutation of the previous three
stanzas, often creating an epiphanic quality to the end.

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130)

William Shakespeare - 1564-1616
(Academy of American Poets n.d.)

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;

Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.

c. Spenserian Sonnet
The Spenserian sonnet, invented by sixteenth century English poet Edmund
Spenser, cribs its structure from the Shakespearean—three quatrains and a
couplet—but employs a series of "couplet links" between quatrains, as revealed in
the rhyme scheme: abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee.
“Amoretti #75” by Edmund Spenser, 1594
(Literary Devices 2017)

One day I wrote her name upon the strand,

But came the waves and washed it away:
Again I write it with a second hand,
But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.
Vain man, said she, that doest in vain assay,
A mortal thing so to immortalize,

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 For I myself shall like to this decay,
And eek my name be wiped out likewise.
Not so, (quod I) let baser things devise
To die in dust, but you shall live by fame:
My verse, your virtues rare shall eternize,
And in the heavens write your glorious name.
Where when as death shall all the world subdue,
Our love shall live, and later life renew.

B. The Free Verse

Free verse is poetry that does not contain regular patterns of rhyme and meter.
The lines in free verse often flow more naturally than do rhymed, metrical lines and
thus achieve a rhythm more like everyday human speech. (Applebee, et al. 2000)

Types of Free Verse

1. Hypertext Poetry

Hypertext poetry is a form of digital poetry that uses links using hypertext mark-
up. It is a very visual form, and is related to hypertext fiction and visual arts. The links
mean that a hypertext poem has no set order, the poem moving or being generated in
response to the links that the reader/user chooses. It can either involve set words,
phrases, lines, etc. that are presented in variable order but sit on the page much as
traditional poetry does, or it can contain parts of the poem that move and / or mutate.
(Wikipedia Contributors 2020)

An example of which is Tarot Poems; A Random Reading (Mike Timonin and

Cindy Duhe). The user clicks on a moving graphic that resembles a shuffling deck and
it links to a poem associated with a picture. Another click starts the random shuffling
process over again. This is really a hypertext interface for a series of related poems.
(Farbrook n.d.)

(Timonin and Duhe n.d.)

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 (Duhe n.d.)

(Timonin n.d.)

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2. Prose Poetry
Prose poetry is a type of writing that combines lyrical and metric elements of
traditional poetry with idiomatic elements of prose, such as standard punctuation and
the lack of line breaks. Upon first glance, a prose poem may appear to be a wholly
unremarkable paragraph of standard prose, but a reader who chooses to dig in will
note poetic overtones within its meter, repetition, and choice of language.
(MasterClass 2020)

Whole Again
Lang Leav
(Poem Quotes n.d.)

I have moved so far away from you that I have become

a myth; a lie you tell yourself each night. I am the one
true thing you’ve held in the palm of your hand, the key
to everything you wanted.

Your name smiles at me from a crumpled envelope,

addressed to the past, unsent and unseen. Inside there is
a letter where I tell you a story about the moon, how
night after night the darkness carved at the pale curve
of her body until she became half the women she was.

There is a word that hurts my heart−one I don’t ever

say out loud. Like the shadow that lingers in the light,
I can’t separate myself from your memory. But there
are some nights when I look up into the sky, and the
moon is whole again.

3. Performance Poetry
Performance poetry is poetry that is specifically composed for or during
performance before an audience. During the 1980s, the term came into popular usage
to describe poetry written or composed exclusively for performance and not for print
distribution. (Language is a Virus 2020)
Example of this is spoken word poetry which is a word-based performance
art where speakers engage in powerful self-expression by sharing their views on
particular topics for a live audience, focusing on sound and presentation. Spoken word
performances require memorization, performative body language (like gestures and
facial expressions), enunciation, and eye contact with viewers (MasterClass 2020).

The Type
Sarah Kay
(Genius 2020)

If you grow up the type of woman men want to look at,

You can let them look at you.
But do not mistake eyes for hands or windows or mirrors.
Let them see what a woman looks like.
They may have not ever seen one before.

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 If you grow up the type of woman men want to touch,
You can let them touch you.
Sometimes, it is not you they are reaching for.
Sometimes it is a bottle, a door, a sandwich, a Pulitzer — another woman.
But their hands found you first.
Do not mistake yourself for a guardian or a muse or a promise or a victim or a
snack.
You are a woman — skin and bones, veins and nerves, hair and sweat.
You are not made out of metaphors, not apologies, not excuses.

If you grow up the type of woman men want to hold,

You can let them hold you.
All day they practice keeping their bodies upright.
Even after all this evolving it still feels unnatural.
Still strains the muscles, hold firms the arms and spine.
Only some men will want to learn what it feels like to curl themselves into a
question mark around you,
Admit they do not have the answers they thought they would by now.
Some men will want to hold you like the answer.
You are not the answer.
You are not the problem.
You are not the poem or the punch-line or the riddle or the joke.

Woman, if you grow up the type men want to love,

You can let them love you.
Being loved is not the same thing as loving.
When you fall in love, it is discovering the ocean after years of puddle jumping.
It is realizing you have hands.
It is reaching for the tightrope when the crowds have all gone home.

Do not spend time wondering if you are the type of women men will hurt.
If he leaves you with a car alarm heart, you learn to sing along.
It is hard to stop loving the ocean even after it has left you gasping — "salty."
So forgive yourself for the decisions you've made.
The ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night and know this:
Know you are the type of woman who is searching for a place to call yours.
Let the statues crumble.
You have always been the place.
You are a woman who can build it yourself.
You are born to build.

4. Shape poetry
Shape is one of the main things that separate prose and poetry. Poetry can
take on many formats, but one of the most inventive forms is for the poem to take on
the shape of its subject. Therefore, if the subject of your poem were of a flower, then
the poem would be shaped like a flower. If it were of a fish, then the poem would take
on the shape of a fish. (Shadow Poetry 2000)

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 Luna
Marie Summers
You
were my
first dandelion
wish, my cotton
candy kiss, and sweet
lullaby. With you nested
in the palm of my hand,
we became one with the night,
ruling over the stars in the sky.
You have been my guiding light
through sleepless nights, my
muse, and friend, always
lending a listening ear, and
offering your soft, glowing
light to ease my fears.
You are my warm,
goodnight moon,
Luna.

What’s More

Activity 3. Reading Between The Lines. Analyze the sonnet and the prose poem given
below by answering the questions that follow. Do this in your notebook.

How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Academy of American Poets n.d.)

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

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 1. Who is the persona of the poem?
2. What is the central theme of the poem?
3. Based from these lines “if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.”, what
is the belief or perspective of the narrator?
4. Explain the speaker’s love for the addressee by analyzing the following lines,
“I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.”
5. If you were the persona of the poem, how would you describe your ways of loving a
person?
6. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem? Based from the rhyme scheme, what type of
sonnet is it?

She
By Lang Leav
(I can only imagine 2014)

She was the sound of glass shattering-- the sharp

ringing in your ears. The perpetual motion of a
spinning ballerina trapped inside a music box. The
sad, tinny tune of La Viene en rose.

She was the zig-zag in your straight line. The

absence in your direction. She was every turn you
took when racing through a hedge against
the setting sun.

She was the tide that came in and out, like the
breath of the wounded. She was the blood that
flowed between head and heart.

She was the book that was not written. The

sentence that was not scripted. She was the word
you wished you had said.

1. Who is the persona of the poem?

2. What is the theme of the poem?
3. What figure of speech is dominant in the entire poem? Cite lines to prove your answer.
4. What is the overall tone of the poem?
5. What do the following lines want to imply?
She was the zig-zag in your straight line. The
absence in your direction. She was every turn you
took when racing through a hedge against
the setting sun.
6. Who do you think is the “she” the persona is referring to?
7. Based from the last stanza, what happened between the persona and “she”?

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Activity 4. Stress, please! Copy the poem, How Do I Love Thee (Sonnet 43) by Elizabeth
Barret Browning. Identify the rhythmic pattern (type of metrical feet and number of metrical
feet per line) by putting the correct stressed ( ˊ ) and unstressed ( ˘ ) marks above the syllables
of each line. Be guided by the following example:

(No Sweat Shakespeare 2004)

What I Have Learned

Activity 5. Identify what is being described in each item. Do this in your notebook.

1. This is an element of a conventional poem which is likened to the beat of a song.

2. This category of poetry doesn’t follow a specific structure or a regular rhythmic
pattern.
3. This is the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet.
4. This is a type of conventional poem whose focus lies in nature and simplicity of form
and structure.
5. This is the metrical pattern followed by a Shakespearean sonnet.
6. This rhyme occurs when words within a single line of a poem rhyme.
7. This type of poem is exemplified when the poet performs his poetry instead of putting
it in print.
8. When elements of poetry and prose are combined, this type of poetry emerges.
9. This type of poetry follows the shape of its subject.
10. It is considered as the strong pause within a line.
11. It is highly imagistic, and it is written in condensed language, stylized syntax, and
figures of speech not found in ordinary communication.
12. Words _________ when the sound of their accented vowels and all the succeeding
sounds are identical.

Activity 6. Compare and contrast conventional poem and free verse poem through a Venn
Diagram. Do this in your notebook.

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Activity 7.
Explain the following quotable statement about poetry. Do this on your answer sheet.
“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.”- Plutarch, philosopher
(BrainyQuote 2020)

What I Can Do

Activity 8. Below is a song by John Denver titled “Perhaps Love”. Copy the song and give
your own definition of love by filling in the blanks with words that rhyme. Be guided by the
indicated rhyme in the parentheses. Do this in your notebook.

"Perhaps Love"
John Denver
(AZlyrics 2000)

Perhaps love is like a ________, a shelter from the ________ (internal rhyme)
It exists to give you comfort, it is there to keep you _______
And in those times of trouble when you are _____________ (end rhyme)
The memory of love will bring you home

Perhaps love is like a window, perhaps an __________

It invites you to come closer, it wants to show you ________ (true rhyme)
And even if you lose yourself and don't know what to do
The memory of love will see you through

Oh, love to some is like _______, to some __________ (internal rhyme)

For some a way of living, for some a way to feel
And some say love is holding on and some say letting go
And some say love is _______and some say _________ (internal rhyme)
Perhaps love is like the ocean, full of conflict, full of __________
Like a fire when it's cold outside or _____________ (end rhyme)
If I should live forever and all my dreams come true, my memories of love will be of you

Activity 9. Dear Poet. Write a letter to a poet of your choice. In your letter, discuss the
significance of poetry in your life, especially on how it helps in self-expression and in
strengthening our emotional and mental aspects. Do this in your notebook.

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 Assessment

Directions: Write a prose poetry containing 4-5 stanzas about life in the NEW
NORMAL. Be guided by the rubric below. Do this in your notebook.

Prose Poetry Rubric

(Rcampus 2020)

Exceeds Meets Almost Meets Does Not Meet

Standards Standards Standards Standards
4 pts 3 pts 2 pts 1 pt
Creativity Writing is Writing is Writing contains Writing contains
extremely somewhat a few creative many cliché
creative. Ideas creative. Some ideas but style ideas and an
and style is new and is mostly uninspired
refreshing and imaginative uninspired. style.
imaginative. ideas. Good
Talented writing.
writing.
Spelling and Proper use of There are a few Poor spelling There are so
Grammar spelling and spelling and and grammar many spelling
grammar is grammar errors, muddle the and grammar
employed however it does overall errors that it is
consistently not take away effectiveness of difficult to
throughout the from the overall this piece. comprehend
writing quality of the the meaning.
assignment. writing
assignment.
More poem Liberal use of Adequate use Some use of Minimal or no
than Prose Repetition for of Repetition for Repetition for use of
effect effect effect Repetition for
Rhyming Rhyming Rhyming effect
Figurative Figurative Figurative Rhyming
language like language like language like Figurative
similes, similes, similes, language like
metaphors, metaphors, metaphors, similes,
imagery, and imagery, and imagery, and metaphors,
personification personification personification imagery, and
Alliteration, Alliteration, Alliteration, personification
antithesis, antithesis, antithesis, Alliteration,
parallelism parallelism parallelism antithesis,
parallelism

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 Patterns that Patterns that Patterns that Patterns that
are intentional are intentional are intentional are intentional
Fluidity There is a There is a An obvious No attempt to
strong rhythm rhythm and flow attempt to create a
and flow of of language. create a rhythm rhythm.
language. Sentence and flow. Sentence
Sentence structure is Sentence structure not
structure is often varied. structure not varied.
varied through varied.
out the piece.

Post-assessment

Directions: Write one Haiku about the picture below. Be guided by the
given rubric. Do this in your notebook.

Source: (Creative Writing Now 2009)

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Haiku Rubric
(Rcampus 2020)

4 pts 3 pts 2 pts 1 pt

Word Choice Poem is Poem is Most of the Poems appear
and Creativity creative and thoughtful and poem is to be
original. It is creative. A creative, but thoughtless or
evident that the couple of words appears to be rushed. Word
poet put may be rushed. The choice is not
thought into confusing but word choice is appropriate for
their words and the overall somewhat the poem
uniquely product is appropriate for topic/topics.
conveyed their carefully written the poem
ideas and topic/topics.
emotions.
Form The poem The poem The poem is The poem does
follows the style mostly follows somewhat not follow the
of Haiku Poetry; the style of written in the style of Haiku
this includes 3 Haiku Poetry; style of Haiku Poetry; the
lines written as the poem Poetry; the poem contains
follows: 5 contains 1 or 2 poem contains more than 5
syllables, 7 errors. Poem 3 or 4 errors. errors. The
syllables, 5 includes Poem is does poem does not
syllables. Poem indicators for not include include neither
contains the season and either the the season nor
information time of day. season or the the time of day.
about the time of day.
season and the
time of day.
Grammar and Work is Work is mostly Work contains Works contains
spelling completely free free of spelling several many spelling
of spelling and and grammar grammar and and grammar
grammar errors. errors. spelling errors. errors.

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What I Know
1. D
2. A
3. A
4. A
5. A
6. B
7. A
8. C
9. B
10. B
What’s In
Activity 1. Answers may vary.
Activity 2. Answers may vary.
What’s More
Activity 3.
How Do I Love Thee?
1. A lover
2. Love is unconditional and knows no boundaries.
3. The narrator believes in the will of God and that there is life after death.
4. The speaker’s love for the addressee is unfathomable.
5. Answers may vary.
6. Abba abba cdcdcd/ Petrarchan sonnet
She
1. A person whose heart has been broken
2. Love is not always reciprocated and that it can also bring sadness.
3. Metaphor. (Cited lines may vary)
4. Sadness and regret
5. The following lines imply that loving a person is not perfect and comes with
challenges.
6. A woman/girl she loves
7. They broke up or are not together.
Activity 4. Iambic pentameter
What I Have Learned
Activity 5
1. Meter
2. Free Verse
Answer Key
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Activity 6. Answers may vary.
Activity 7. Answers may vary.
What I can do
Activity 8. Answers may vary.
Activity 9. Answers may vary
Assessment
Answers may vary.
Post-assessment
Answers may vary.
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