Session 1:

CREATIVE WRITING

MAY GRACE D. SALAZAR

Secondary School Teacher – III
Lucena Dalahican National High School
 OBJECTIVES
 define creative writing
 understand the nature of creative writing
 differentiate creative writing to other forms of writing
 write creative writing pieces
 explain sensory detail
 identify the importance of sensory details in creative writing
 exercise the use of sensory details in writing
 define figures of speech and diction
 write a short creative piece which contains figures of speech
and diction
 How will I
teach creative
writing?
 GROUP ACTIVITY

The class will be divided into three

groups.
Each group shall choose a leader.
The chosen leader shall pick one task
among the choices.
 TASK 1. SPOT THE DIFFERENCE

Identify the differences and/or

similarities (if any) of the two sets of
texts given to the group.
Present your work using Venn diagram.
 TASK 2. SENSE IT ALL
Write down all the words/adjectives
you can think that appeals to the
senses.
Sight Smell Touch Taste Hearing Touch
 TASK 3. FIGURATIVELY YOURS
Write a sentence that corresponds to
the figurative language enumerated
below.
Figurative Language Sentence
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Allusion
Onomatopoeia
 CREATIVE WRITING
It is the artistic expression through
written word. It is used to express the
writer’s ideas and emotions in an
artistic manner. Unlike other forms of
writing, it uses a language that aims
to entertain and captivate the
audience.
Differences between creative and technical writing
SENSORY EXPERIENCE IN IMAGINATIVE WRITING

 Sensory detail gives strength to writing by allowing the

readers to have a vivid sensory experience.
 It concretely describes the subject by using words or
phrases that appeal to the five senses – sight, smell, taste,
hearing and touch.
 Sensory detail is essential in creative writing for it captures
and sustains the interest of the readers by giving them a
clear view of the subject or the scene being described.
 It exercises one’s imagination.
 Figures of Speech
Figures of Definition Sample Text
Speech/Figurative
Language
Simile Indirect comparison of “Then she burst into view,
two things using “like” or a girl lovely as morning
“as” and just as fair…”
(Waywaya, F. Sionil Jose)
Metaphor Direct comparison “Everything that exists,
between two objects aromas, light, metals,
were little boats that sail
toward the isles of your
that wait for me…” (If You
Forget Me, Pablo
Neruda)
Figures of Speech/Figurative Definition Sample Text
Language
Personification Attribution of human qualities “Because I could not stop for
to a thing Death – He kindly stopped
for me – The Carriage held
but just Ourselves – And
Immortality.”
(Because I could not stop for
Death, Emily Dickinson)
Hyperbole Exaggeration Well now, one winter it was so
cold that all the geese flew
backward and all the fish
moved south and even the
snow turned blue. Late at
night, it got so frigid that all
spoken words froze solid
afore they could be heard.
People had to wait until
sunup to find out what folks
were talking about the night
before.
(Babe, the Blue Ox, retold by
S.E. Schlosser)
 Figures of Definition Sample Text
Speech/Figurative
Language
Alliteration Repetition of the first “Leap up, like that, and the
consonant of neighboring land so lightly.” (Home
word Burial, Robert Frost)
Allusion Use of person, place or “The morning wind forever
things as reference blows; the poem of
creation is uninterrupted,
but few are the ears that
hear it. Olympus is but the
outside of the earth
everywhere.” (Walden,
Henry David Thoreau)
Onomatopoeia Use of words that mimic “Boy, I rang that door bell
sound fast when I got to old
Spencer’s house.” (The
Catcher in the Rye, J.D.
Salinger)
LANGUAGE OF CREATIVE WRITING
 Figures of speech and figurative language add life to a
text by creating figurative images. Simile, metaphor,
personification, hyperbole, alliteration, allusion and
onomatopoeia are the some of the figures of speech
and figurative language which can be used in creative
writing.
 Diction refers to the characteristics of the language used
by the writer. It has three levels: formal, informal, and
colloquial diction. Each has their specific use.
 APPLICATION
 Complete the worksheets for Session 1.