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Creative Writing Module 1
Creative Writing Module 1
Creative Writing Module 1
Creative Writing
Quarter 1 – Module 1:
Imagery,Diction, Figures of
Speech, and Specific Experiences
for Meaningful Responces
English : Creative Writing- Grade – 12/Humanities and Social Sciences
Quarter 1 – Module 1: Imagery, Diction, Figures of Speech, and Specific Experiences
for Meaningful Responces
First Edition, 2020
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Quarter 1-Module 1:
Imagery,Diction, Figures of
Speech, and Specific Experiences
for Meaningful Responces
Introductory Message
For the facilitator:
Welcome to Creative Writing, a specialized subject in Humanities and Social Sciences
(HUMSS). This module is designed to provide learners with a self-learning tool in exploring the
beauty and nature of creative writing.
As the facilitator, you are tasked to guide the learners in navigating the various
activities crafted in this module in the pursuit of holistic learning. In addition, please be
reminded that the activities of this module shall be answered in a separate sheet.
Let us continuously work together in providing life-long learning to the future of our
nation-the learners of today and that no pandemic can hinder us in our quest towards
education.
For the learner:
Kudos to your hard work! Congratulations in keeping up with the challenges in
today’s new normal classroom. This self-learning module in Creative Writing is designed
especially for you. The content of this module is anchored from the Most Essential Leaning
Competencies (MELC) of this subject in lined with the K to 12 Curriculum.
In this module, you will deal with different discussions and activities that will help
you deepen your understanding about creative writing. You are expected to hone your
creative writing skills as you explore the developed multifaceted tasks included in this
learning material.
Above everything else, always have A HAPPY LEARNI
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Let Us Learn!
Let Us Try!
Let Us Study
Imagery
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The use of imagery appeals to how you see, hear, smell, taste, touch,
and feel the things you write about. If you are writing about a memory, these
images can help readers better understand the ideas, emotions and specific
experiences you have written.
Types of Imagery
The night was black as ever, but bright stars lit up the sky in
beautiful and varied constellations which were sprinkled across the
astronomical landscape.
Auditory -something that you can hear through your mind’s ears.
Olfactory - something that you can smell through your mind’s nose.
She smelled the scent of sweet hibiscus wafting through the air, its
tropical smell a reminder that she was on vacation in a beautiful
place.
Gustatory - something that you can taste through your mind’s tongue
After the long run, he collapsed in the grass with tired and burning
muscles. The grass tickled his skin and sweat cooled on his brow.
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The scorching heat of a midday tropical sun made my
eyes squint.
Verbs can provide distinction between strong and weak writing. Weak
verbs and passive constructions fail the effect of your writing. Too many
linking verbs and verbs used in the passive voice weaken your
statements. Moreover, learn to replace passive verbs with action verbs to
make you sentences forceful and meaningful.
Examples:
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LINKING VERB ACTION VERB
Jane’s vulgar red dress was disrespectful Jane’s vulgar red dress disrespected her
to her uncle’s funeral. uncle’s funeral.
Keane was sure that Ana was his first love. Keane confirmed that Ana was his first
love.
Sentences are better if the verbs used express strong and definite
action. For example, in some noun-verb-noun constructions, the verb can
be substituted by one strong verb, as shown in the following:
NOUN-VERB-NOUN REVISED
Heavy rains caused flood in many areas in Heavy rains flooded many areas in Digos
Digos City. City.
Ceinwen talked with her cousins at the Ceinwen reunited with her cousins in
family reunion in Ceboley, Santa Cruz. Ceboley, Santa Cruz.
Sentences also become more effective when verbs in the active voice
are employed instead of verbs in the passive voice.
Active voice helps the subject of the sentence perform a definite action
while passive voice receives the action performed on it.
PASSIVE ACTIVE
The sun was covered by big, lonely clouds. Big, lonely clouds covered the sun.
Yuka was entertained by the playful and Playful and joyful Risa entertained Yuk.
joyful Risa.
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4. Astrid glanced (to look hurriedly or perfunctorily) at her watch before
opening the door of their house.
Boat ship, craft, yacht, banca, outrigger, raft, kayak, tanker, vessel,
container, ferry, canoe
You have to be careful to use the word with the right connotation to
express your thoughts and ideas.
Example:
The examples below show how two distinct words can convey different
shades of positivity in the same sentence.
POSITIVE, FAVORABLE
Matthew can be uncomfortable to criticism, and expresses his
thoughts about things.
The next set of examples shows how the words connote different levels
of negativity.
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Use specific shade or color of an object in a scene. Be familiar with the
different shades of colors to create a more detailed and well-focused
description.
Example:
Brow Cream, tan, apricot, sepia, mahogany, dandelion, raw sienna, chestnut,
peach, rust, mauve, melon, tumbleweed, burnt sienna, golden rod, chocolate,
n cocoa butter, teak, terra cotta, auburn, bronze, burgundy, citrine, coyote
brown, khaki, ochre, taupe, wheat
Blue Pacific blue, cobalt, cornflower, plum, cadet blue, royal blue, cerulean,
wisteria, turquoise, aquamarine, sky blue, electric blue, robin’s egg,
periwinkle, sapphire, azure, capri, midnight blue, powder blue
Red Scarlet, crimson, bittersweet, orchid, strawberry, magenta, brick red, cherry
red, carmine, ruby, rusty red, fire engine red, chili, red wood, maroon, bloody
red
Green Forest green, asparagus, olive, blue green, cyan, bice, army green, spring
green, chartreuse, citrine, sea green, emerald, yellow green, harlequin,
honeydew, granny smith apple, moss green, jade, lime, myrtle, pear, teal
White Dirty white, ecru, flesh, off-white, eggshell, powder white, snow,
ivory, seashell, corn silk, old lace, milk, beige, linen, antique
white, champagne, Dutch white, bone, vanilla, flax
CLICHÉ REVISED
When Jan finally said “yes” to his When Jan finally said “yes” to his
courtship, Joshua was on cloud nine. courtship, Joshua was overjoyed.
I don’t care if the plan doesn’t work out I don’t care if the plan doesn’t work out
for I other fish to fry. for I have other things to do.
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You can improve the paragraph by substituting the overused terms
with other words or descriptions.
REDUNDANT CONCISE
My cousin, who loves extreme My cousin loves outdoor sports
outdoor sports, enjoys climbing, such as mountain climbing,
parasailing, and bungee jumping. parasailing, and bungee jumping.
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He couldn’t get into the house He couldn’t get into the house
because the key he used was too because the key he used was too
small in size. small.
c. Avoid wordiness.
WORDY CONCISE
To reach our goal, we need To reach our goal, we need fresh
suggestions that are fresh and at and effective ideas.
the same time effective.
His mother is an actress, and she is His mother is both an actress and a
a former beauty queen. beauty queen.
The man in uniform will send letters The man in uniform will send his
to his wife. wife letters.
At the front gate, there was a man At the front gate was a man begging
who was begging for alms. for alms.
Figures of Speech
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A figure of speech is a word or phrase using figurative language—
language that has other meaning than its normal definition.
Functions:
1. to clarify a vague idea or 6. to breath some life into
thought inanimate objects
2. to furnish striking examples 7. to personify and give voice to
3. to highlight an important non-sentient beings
point 8. to delight the reader with
4. to stimulate unlikely linguistic inventiveness
associations 9. to embellish dull paragraphs
5. to evoke powerful feelings and or stanzas
emotions
If in your arms that hold me now so near Gloria’s classic love poem “ To
I lift my keening thoughts to Helicon the Man I Married,” the central
As trees long rooted to the earth uproar metaphor of the sonnet is the
Their quickening leaves and flowers to the sun, indirect comparison between her
husband and the earth in its
You who are earth, O never doubt that I
various manifestations and
Need you no less because I need the sky!
implications, as the entire poetic
utterances illustrates.
Source:https://owlcation.com/humanities/Glorias-To-the-Man-I-
Married-He-is-Her-Earth-and-Foundatin
"I'll love you, dear, I'll love you "Well now, one winter it was so cold
till China and Africa meet, that all the geese flew backward
And the river jumps over the and all the fish moved south and
mountain even the snow turned blue. Late at
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And the salmon sing in the street, night, it got so frigid that all spoken
words froze solid afore they could be
I'll love you till the ocean heard. People had to wait until
Is folded and hung up to dry sunup to find out what folks were
And the seven stars go squawking talking about the night before."
Like geese about the sky.
-"As I Walked Out One Evening" -“Bunyan and Babe the Blue
by W.H. Auden Ox” by Paul Bunyan
Example:
“A pen is mightier than a sword,” from the play Richelieu by Edward
Bulwer Lytton contains two examples of metonymy:
pen- standing in for “the written word”
sword- standing in for “military aggression”
A metonym is a word or phrase that is used to represent something
related to bigger meaning.
For example:
Word Meaning
crown monarch (whether king or queen, since
Henry got the crown. it is an object related to royalty)
class
Grade 12-Hornbill is the best class (a group of students)
advisory class I ever handled.
hand help (since it is the part of the body
Can you give me a hand? which most useful in providing
assistance)
5. Oxymoron- A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory
terms appear side by side. Linguistically speaking, an oxymoron can either
be a noun-noun, adjective-noun, adjective-adjective, adverb-adverb, or
adverb-verb combination.
The word “oxymoron” itself (a combination of the Greek adjectives for
“sharp” and “dull”) is an oxymoron.
Oxymoronic Words
act naturally bittersweet cheerful pessimist small crowd
deafening silence foolish wisdom jumbo shrimp tragic comedy
liquid gas living dead open secret passive aggressive
original copies pretty-ugly random order loving hate
seriously funny run slowly virtual reality beautifully ugly
Example:
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Here’s much to do with hate, but more with love.
Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate
O anything! Of nothing first create!
O heavy lightness! Serious vanity!
Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms
-William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet”
"This is the beginning of the end," said Eeyore, always the pessimist.
Example:
“Ah, William, we’re weary of the weather,” said the sunflowers shining with
dew
-William Blake, “Two Sunflowers Move in the Yellow Room”
Thou still unravished bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme
-John Keats (referring to beautiful Greek amphora- a vase or vessel for
keeping wine or olive), “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
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Let Us Practice
Task 2. Breaking the Fast!
One of the things we look forward when starting our day is breakfast.
It is mostly the first gustatory activity we do in the morning as we prepare
ourselves to say hello to a brand new day.
On a separate piece of paper, using at least 10 sentence, describe your
breakfast this morning using imagery. Maximize the strength and power of
our senses and imagination and let us enjoy your breakfast together!
Please be guided with the given rubric below:
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Let Us Practice More
Task 3. I Did It My Way!
The sample paragraph below contains words that seem too
formal (in brackets) and informal (in parenthesis). Improve the paragraph
using the right diction. You may use a dictionary or a thesaurus.
Let Us Remember
Imagery is
_______________________________________________________________________
Diction is
________________________________________________________________________
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Let Us Assess
2. Drip—hiss—drip—hiss fall the raindrops / on the oaken log which burns, and steams,
and smokes the ceiling beams. / Drip—hiss—the rain never stops.
Which technique is being used?
________________________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole
3. When the stars threw down their spears, / And water'd heaven with their tears,
Which technique is being used?
_________________________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole
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5. I do not care to talk to you although / Your speech evokes a thousand
sympathies,
Which technique is being used?
___________________________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole
6. The sun was shining on the sea, / Shining with all his might:
Which technique is being used?
___________________________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole
8. The old clock down in the parlor / Like a sleepless mourner grieves,
Which technique is being used?
___________________________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole
9. By the lakes that thus outspread / Their lone waters, lone and dead /
Their sad waters, sad and chilly
Which technique is being used?
___________________________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole
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How do you figure?
(write a sentence explaining your answer)
Let Us Enhance
Choose only one among the topics give. You may choose to write
an experience not on the list, something of equal intensity as those in
the choices. Be sure to employ imagery, diction, and figurative
language. The score shall be based on the rubric below:
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Figurative The writing makes The writing The writing makes The writing makes
Language excellent use of makes excellent excellent use of excellent use of
figurative language use of figurative figurative language figurative language
such as similes and language such as such as similes and such as similes and
personification to similes and personification to personification to
make a more personification to make a more make a more
descriptive writing. make a more descriptive writing. descriptive writing.
There are 4 or more descriptive There are 4 or There are 4 or more
examples present. writing. There are more examples examples present.
4 or more present.
examples
present.
Word The writing has many The writing has The writing has The writing has
Choice examples of specific many examples of many examples of many examples of
and interesting nouns specific and specific and specific and
and verbs. There are interesting nouns interesting nouns interesting nouns
no general nouns or and verbs. There and verbs. There and verbs. There are
verbs present. are no general are no general no general nouns or
Descriptive language is nouns or verbs nouns or verbs verbs present.
used to make the present. present. Descriptive language
reader experience and Descriptive Descriptive is used to make the
visualize what is language is used language is used to reader experience
happening. to make the make the reader and visualize what is
reader experience experience and happening.
and visualize visualize what is
what is happening.
happening.
Correct The writing was The writing had The writing had The writing has
Format written using correct one error in the some error in the the incorrect
form based on the format. format. Heading, format in heading,
format given in Heading, title, title, or titles, &
class. Paragraphs or paragraphs paragraphs were paragraphs.
were indented and were in the in the wrong
writing was placed wrong place. place.
on correct lines.
Let Us Reflect
You did a great job in completing our module! Kudos to your hard
work! Let us look back from where we have started and complete the
chart below. Let us reflect towards your journey in learning the critical
approaches in writing a critique.
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I thought....
What were your misconceptions about the topic prior to taking the
lesson?
I learned that..
What additional learning have you had after taking up this lesson in
terms of skills and attitude?
Task 6.
-Answer may vary.
References
Book Source
Aguila, Augusto, Galan, Ralph and Wigley, John Jack.
Wording the World: The Art of Creative Writing for
Senior High School. Quezon City: C & E Publishing,
Inc., 2017
Online Sources:
https://literaryterms.net/imagery/#:~:text=Imagery%20is%20language
%20used%20by,reader%27s%20experience%20through%20their%20senses.
https://literaryterms.net/figures-of-speech/
https://www.thoughtco.com/top-figures-of-speech-1691818
https://owlcation.com/humanities/Glorias-To-the-Man-I-Married-He-is-
Her-Earth-and-Foundation
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/30785_rubric.pdf
https://college.cengage.com/english/trimmer/writing/13e/instructors/irm
/chap09.pdf
https://www.ereadingworksheets.com/figurative-language/figurative-
language-activities/
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