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Reviewer in CW HUMSS 11-2 PDF
Reviewer in CW HUMSS 11-2 PDF
Reviewer in CW HUMSS 11-2 PDF
Summary:
Writing Technical
concise, accurate,
Imaginative
imaginative,
Content factual, metaphoric,
straightforward symbolic
LESSON 1: IMAGINATIVE VS. TECHNICAL VS. Audience specific general
ACADEMIC WRITING
inform, instruct, entertain, provoke,
Purpose
persuade captivate
Imaginative Writing
formal, standard, informal, artistic,
It is the artistic expression through written Style
word. academic figurative
It is used to express the writer’s ideas and Tone objective subjective
emotions in an artistic manner.
It uses language that aims to entertain, provoke, Vocabulary specialized general, evocative
or captivate the audience. sequential,
Organization arbitrary, artistic
It is subjective and emotionally charged. systematic
Examples
o Poems
o Short stories LESSON 2: SENSORY DETAILS
o Nonfiction essays
o Scripts Sensory details are facts that are collected through the
o Song Lyrics 5 senses.
o Blogs
o Diary Entries
o Personal letters
o Speeches
Technical Writing
It is objective and unemotional.
It is straightforward, accurate, and concise. Use sensory details in writing to give the read a clear
It conveys technical info relating to a specific idea of what you are describing.
field or job.
There is a standard format and rules. Example:
It aims to inform, instruct and persuade.
Examples
o Business letters
o Memoranda
o Resumes
o Formal e-mails
o Proposals
o Reports
Academic Writing
It is based on solid information and ideas.
It is factual and informative.
It aims to persuade, explain, narrate, or LESSON 3: FIGURES OF SPEECH
describe. (write your own examples on the space provided)
It is limited to the academe.
1. Simile – indirect comparison between two unlike
Examples
objects using the words like or as.
o Book Report/Review
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o Research Paper
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o Academic Journal
o Thesis and Dissertation
2. Metaphor – a direct comparison of two unlike
o Abstract
things without the use of like or as.
o Essay
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o Any writing assignment given by the
__________________________________________
teacher to be fulfilled by students for
them to pass the subject
3. Hyperbole – an overstatement or exaggeration that
can be used for dramatic effect.
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It must be slender as a bell,
4. Personification – an inanimate object or animal is And it must hold fire as well.
given human qualities or characteristics It must have the wisdom of bows
__________________________________________ And it must kneel like a rose.
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It must be able to hear
5. Apostrophe – addressing the dead or absent The luminance of dove and dear.
persons, objects or ideas. It must be able to hide
__________________________________________ What it seeks, like a bride.
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And overall I would like to hover
6. Synecdoche – substitution of part for a whole, a God, smiling from the poem’s cover
whole for a part
__________________________________________ Guide questions:
__________________________________________ 1. How can a poem be magical and musical?
2. Can poems provide brightness?
7. Metonymy – substitution of one word for another 3. How do poems hold a secret?
which is associated with it 4. Are poems slender? Why?
__________________________________________ 5. What does it mean for a poem to hold fire?
__________________________________________ 6. Should poems be wise?
7. What does kneeling symbolize?
8. Allusion – an author’s reference to a person, place, 8. What does it mean to hear the luminance of dove
event or a piece of literature which he expects his and deer?
audience to recognize. 9. Why would God smile on the poem’s cover?
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__________________________________________ LESSON 5: SONNET 116 BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
9. Oxymoron – two contradictory terms Let me not to the marriage of true minds
__________________________________________ Admit impediments. Love is not love
__________________________________________ Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
10. Onomatopoeia – use of words that imitate sounds
__________________________________________ O no! It is an ever-fixed mark
__________________________________________ That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
11. Irony – the action of language is in contrast to what Whose worth’s unknown, although his height
is true or expected be taken.
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__________________________________________ Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and
cheeks
12. Alliteration – repetition of successive words with Within his bending sickle’s compass come;
the same beginning consonants. Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
__________________________________________ But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
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If this be error and upon me proved,
13. Assonance – repetitive vowel sounds within a I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
sentence or phrase
__________________________________________ Guide questions:
__________________________________________ 1. What is the meaning of the following:
a. True minds
14. Consonance – repetitive consonant sounds within a b. Impediments
sentence or phrase c. Alteration
__________________________________________ d. Ever-fixed mark
__________________________________________ e. Tempest
f. Wandering bark
g. Bending sickle
LESSON 4: SONNET 1 BY JOSE GARCIA VILLA 2. According to Shakespeare, what is love and what is
not love?
First, a poem must be magical, 3. What do the last two lines mean?
Then musical as a sea gull.
It must be a brightness moving
And hold secret a bird’s flowering.
Prepared by Ms. K. Lubong
exclusively for HUMSS 11-2