C REATIVE WRITING 12

Writing a Craft Essay Demonstrating

Awareness and Sensitivity to the Different
Literary and Socio-Political Contexts
 OBJECTIVE
identify the different literary and socio-
political contexts of creative writing
 Activity 1. Hark back
Directions: Identify what is being described in the statements below about the
elements of fiction.

• 1. It includes the place, time, weather conditions and social conditions that establish the atmosphere, or
mood of a story or specific scene.
• 2. This describes the central idea embodied in a literary text and may be the
• author’s thoughts about the topic or view of human nature.
• 3. In a literary text, it is the textual representation of a human being, or occasionally another creature.
• 4. This kind of conflict portrays a situation wherein two characters have opposing desires or interests.
• 5. In this kind of characterization, the narrator explicitly or directly describes the character.
• 6. It means the arrangement or sequence of the events to develop the basic idea in the story.
• 7. This is the process by which the character reveals the personality of the character.
• 8. In this type of conflict, the character is in opposition with the norms and the society.
• 9. It refers to the standpoint or angle from which the story is told.
• 10. This refers to the struggle between two entities.
 Take a look at the picture below. Write your
interpretation on the principles underlying the
image and the ideas behind it
Literary context means understanding the literary
genre. Determining the literary genre helps in
understanding the context of the passage. The
author and the reader agree through the genre.
Examples of genre for fiction are: drama, fable,
fairy tale, folklore, humor, horror, legend, poetry,
short story, and science fiction while the literary
genres for non-fiction are: biography, essay,
speech, autobiography, and narrative non-fiction.
Furthermore, there are several literary contexts
which can help the readers in giving
interpretation of the text. These are social
context, historical context, ideological context,
and cultural context.
 SOCIAL CONTEXT

• Social context. It is the way in which the

surroundings, the people, the situation
influence on how people react and interpret
things. How people react may be credited to
their previous experiences.
 My Neighbor
By Ricardo Demetillo
• My neighbour, being well-to-do
• Bought years ago a lot and house
• And built high walls as if to say:
• “All interlopers here, keep out!”
• It’s true thieves jimmy doors and snilch
• What usables lie strewn about.
• So it is right my neighbour blocks
• Suspect intrusion to his house.
• Now all the urchins shy, the cold tall gate
• That guards the ripe fruits from their slings.
• Still I can’t keep my curiosity
• To trespass slyly with a peek;
• So know how each lush flower-bed
• Is sprayed by hoses in the sun
• And guess when roses scent the air
• Or drop their petals on the grass
• I know too that my neighbor’s girl
• Who strains beneath her yaya’s hand
• Looks longingly beyond the gate
• Where my boys tumble in the sun.
• Going back to the poem “My Neighbor”, the situation is about the rich
neighbor who built high walls around their residence. The rich neighbor had
a tall gate that the poor families could not see the things inside. The
daughter of the well- to do family also wished to see the world outside their
house as stated in the line “looks longingly beyond the gate.” This
circumstance depicts the gap between the rich and the poor families. The
social standing created a disparity that the two kids cannot be friends with
each other.
 PROJECT
( Creative Writing)

• Create an album/portfolio on the following: (Choose only one (1).

• a. poety
• b. Story
• c. Drama
• Note: Atleast 5 types with examples
• Example Poetry: Ballad, Ode, haiku, Sonnet and etc…
• Example Story: fable, parable, short story, novel etc.
• Example Drama: Parody, Comedy, Melodrama, Drama, Farce etc.
Deadline of submission: January 27, 2023