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Teacher-made Learner’s Home Task

WEEK 3 Q 3 (Second Semester)

Name:____________________________________________
Grade/Section: Grade 12 Date: _______________
Teacher: Ms. Cristal E. Bero

Learning Area: Creative Non-Fiction Quarter: 1 Duration:

4 hours
Learning Competencies: Analyze the theme and techniques of a particular text

1. Objectives
Analyze the theme and techniques of fiction

2. TOPIC Analyzing the Theme and Techniques of Poetry

3. Procedures
Readings:

Poetry is different from fiction and drama because it is written in lines and stanzas
instead of sentences and paragraphs. When studying poetry, it is useful first of all to
consider the theme or the general idea and the overall development of the theme in the
poem. Obviously, the sort of development that takes place depends to a considerable
extent on the type of poem one is dealing with.

The three (3) types of poetry are: lyric, narrative, and didactic poetry.

1. Lyric Poetry- a comparatively short, non-narrative poem in which a single

speaker presents a state of mind or an emotional state Subcategories of the lyric
are:

 Elegy - a formal lament for the death of a particular person.

Example: Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.

 Ode - a long lyric poem with a serious subject written in an elevated style.
Famous examples are Wordsworth’s Hymn to Duty

 Sonnet- originally a love poem which dealt with the lover’s sufferings and
hopes. Examples Shakespeare’s Sonnet

 Dramatic monologue- where a speaker, who is explicitly someone other than

the author, makes a speech to a silent auditor in a specific situation and at a
critical moment. Example: Browning's My Last Duchess

 Occasional poetry - written for a specific occasion: a wedding (then it is

called an epithalamion,

2. Narrative Poetry– A form of poetry that tells a story; the entire story is usually written
in metered verse

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Subcategories of Narrative Poetry are:

 Epics usually operate on a large scale, both in length and topic, such as the founding
of a nation (Virgil’s Aeneid) or the beginning of world history (Milton's Paradise Lost),
they tend to use an elevated style of language and supernatural beings take part in the
action.

 ballad is a song, originally transmitted orally, which tells a story.

Didactic Story– also known as descriptive poetry, primarily aims to teach something.
This can take the form of very specific instructions, such as how to catch a fish, as in
James Thomson’s The Seasons.

Poetic Techniques used in poetry include:

1. Imagery – Imagery - the use of language to create mental images and sensory
impressions for emotional effect and intensity. For Example: A host, of golden
daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the Milky Way - from
Daffodils by William Wordsworth
2. Figures of Speech- an ornament of language which forces the reader to make
imaginative leap in order to comprehend an author’s point. The common figures
of speech are:

a. Simile- a comparison of two unlike things of people using the words like or as
• Example: O my love is like a red, red rose from Robert Burn’s “A Red, Red
Rose”
b. Metaphor- a subtle comparison in which an author describes a person or thing
using words that are not meant to be taken literally.
c. Personification- a figure of speech in which an inanimate object, animal or
idea is endowed with human qualities or abilities. Example: Have you gone a
brook in your little heart, Where bashful flowers blow, And blushing birds go
down to drink, And shadows tremble so?
d. Hyperbole an intentional and extreme exaggeration for emphasis or effect •
Example— o This book weighs a ton.
e. Apostrophe – a figure of speech in which some absent non- existent person or
thing is addressed as if present and capable of understanding or replying.
Example: Twinkle,twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are

f. Oxymoron is a figure of speech in which opposites are paired for effect. For
example: A deafening silence!
g. Irony- a literary technique used to create meaning that seems to contradict the
literal meaning or events. n simple words, it is a difference between
appearance and reality. Examples: “Oh great! Now you have broken my new
camera.” In the poem ,The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Coleridge wrote:

“Water, water, everywhere,

And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.”

3. Sound Effect Devices- the use of sound as a means of reinforcing meaning.

a. Alliteration – the repetition of the initial consonant sounds of stressed syllables.

Example: A flea and a fly in a flue

b. Assonance- the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or

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sentences.
Example: Thou still unravished bride of quietness, Thou foster child of silence and slow
time

c. Consonance- the cunning combination of consistently copied consonants and vowel

sounds.
Example: Peter Piper picked a pack..

d. Onomatopoeia- the use of sounds of objects

Whoosh, passing breeze Flags flatter and flap

e. Repetition- the repeating of a word or phrase or phrase. Humpty Dumpty sat on the
wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall

f. Rhyme – a type of echoing which utilizes a correspondence of sound in the final

accented vowels. Example: Whenever Richard Cory went down town We people on the
pavement looked at him He was a gentleman from sole to crown Clean favored and
imperially slim.

Unlike fiction, creative non- fiction is a factually accurate prose about real people and
events presented in a compelling, vivid, and dramatic manner. The goal of this writing is
to make nonfiction stories read like fiction so that readers are as enthralled by fact as
they are by fantasy. Sometimes, it is called literary journalism or the literature of fact, as
it merges the boundaries between literary art (fiction, poetry) and research nonfiction
(statistical, fact-filled). It is a writing composed of the real, or of facts, that employs the
same literary devices as fiction, such as setting, voice/tone, character development, etc.
Creative nonfiction should (1) include accurate and well-researched information, (2) hold
the interest of the reader, and (3) potentially blur the realms of fact and fiction in a
pleasing, literary style (while remaining grounded in fact). In the end, creative nonfiction
can be as experimental as fiction—it just needs to be based in the real.

The theme of creative non- fiction is called content. It's important to clarify that the
content of creative nonfiction does not necessarily have to come from the life or the
experience of the writer. Say, for instance, the writer is using techniques from literary
journalism to create a portrait of a person interviewed. The writer may choose to write a
portrait of the interviewee through an omniscient perspective, meaning the writer
wouldn't be in the piece at all. Writers of creative non fiction attempt to observe, record,
and thus shape a moment(s) from real life. Writers thus extract meaning through factual
details—they combine the fact of detail with the literary extrapolation necessary in
rendering meaning from an observed scene.

The types of creative non- fiction are:

The Personal Essay- a piece of writing, usually in the first person, that focuses on a
topic through the lens of the personal experience of the narrator. It can be narrative or
non-narrative-it can tell a story in a traditional way or improvise a new way for doing so.
Ultimately, it should always be based on true, personal experience.

The Memoir- a longer piece of creative nonfiction that delves deep into a writer's
personal experience. It typically uses multiple scenes/stories as a way of examining a
writer's life (or an important moment in a writer's life). It is usually, but not necessarily,
narrative.

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 The Short Short - a short/short is a (typically) narrative work that is concise and to the
point. It uses imagery and details to relay the meaning, or the main idea of the piece.
Typically it's only one or two scenes, and is like a flash of a moment that tells a whole
story.

Literary Journalism:- uses the techniques of journalism (such as interviews and

reviews) in order to look outside of the straight forward, objective world that journalism
creates.

The Lyric Essay: similar to the personal essay in that it also deals with a topic that
affects the reader. However, the lyric essay relies heavily on descriptions and imagery.
Lyrical suggests something poetic, musical, or flowing (in a sense). This type of piece
uses a heavily descriptive, flowing tone in order to tell a story.

Exercises 1 – Activity 1. True or False

Single Choice Instructions: Write true if the statement is correct and False if not.

_______________1. A short/short is a (typically) narrative work that is concise and to

the point.
_______________2. Literary Journalism uses the techniques of journalism
_______________3. The Memoir a longer piece of creative nonfiction that delves deep
into a writer's personal experience.
_______________4. The Personal Essay a piece of writing, usually in the first person,
that focuses on a topic through the lens of the personal experience of the narrator.
_______________5. Metaphor- a subtle comparison
_______________6. Creative non- fiction is a factually accurate prose about real people
and events presented in a compelling, vivid, and dramatic manner.
_______________7. Elegy a formal lament for the death of a particular person.
_______________8. Sonnet originally a love poem which dealt with the lover’s
sufferings and hopes.
______________9. Poetry is different from fiction and drama because it is written in
lines and stanzas instead of sentences and paragraphs.
______________10. Didactic Story also known as descriptive poetry
Assignment: Instructions: Briefly discuss the following. Write your answer below the concept. 1.
Types of poetry

2. Poetic Techniques

Instructions. Carefully read and identify each poet

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