Republic of the Philippines

Commission on Higher Education

PART 2

CREATIVE

WRITING

MITCHELLE P. AMOR
Course Instructor
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BACKGROUND

WEEKLY LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET IN CREATIVE WRITING

Use imagery, diction, figures of speech, and
specific experiences to evoke meaningful
responses from readers.

Content Background: Writers use words for different purposes and meanings, especially poets!
‘My love is like a red rose’. This is how poets such as Robert Burns declared his feelings and joy
through figures of speech. In this week’s lesson, you will learn how imagery, diction and figurative
languages enhance the author’s creation. The effective use of figures of speech brings to life what would
have been mere words, phrases and sentences. Also, through this module, you will appreciate how
imagery adds flavor to writing and makes the experience of reading so much more enjoyable.

The objectives of this activity package are:

1. Define imagery;

2. Distinguish the commonly used figures of speech;

3. Identify the various elements, techniques, and literary devices in various modes of fiction;and

4. Write a short poem applying the various elements and literary devices exploring innovative
techniques ; and
5. Write journal entries and other short compositions exploring key elements of fiction.

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DAY1
Literal language is used to mean exactly what is written. For example:

“It was raining a lot, so I rode the bus.”

In this example of literal language, the writer means to explain exactly what is written “It was raining
a lot, so I rode the bus.”

In this example of literal language, the writer means to explain exactly what is written: that he or she
chose to ride the bus because of the heavy rain.

Figurative language is used to mean something other than what is written, something symbolic,
suggested, or implied. For example:

It was raining cats and dogs, so I rode the bus.

In this example of figurative language, there were not actually cats and dogs falling from rain clouds,
instead, the rain felt so heavy and large that it was almost as if small animals were falling from the
sky!

In the examples below, identify the phrases as literal or figurative. If phrases are figurative, underline
the figurative language and explain what the author is suggesting, implying, or meaning.

ACTIVITY 1

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Directions: Identify what sensory imagery is used in the following statements. Write
your answer on the line before each number.
_______________1. He fumed and charged like an angry bull.

_______________2. He fell down like an old tree falling down in a storm.

_______________3. He felt like the flowers were waving him a hello.

_______________4. The eerie silence was shattered by her scream.

_______________5. He could hear his world crashing down when he heard the news
about her.

_______________6. The F-16 swooped down like an eagle after its prey.

_______________7. The word spread like leaves in a storm.

_______________8. The lake was left shivering by the touch of morning wind.

_______________9. Her face blossomed when she caught a glance of him.

_______________10. He could never escape from the iron grip of desire.

_______________11. He could hear the footsteps of doom nearing.
_______________12. She was like a breath of fresh air infusing life back into him.
_______________13. The pot was a red as a tongue after eating a cherry flavored ring
pop.
_______________14. Though I was on the sheer face of a mountain, the feeling of
swinging through the air was euphoric, almost like flying without wings.
_______________15. Her blue eyes were as bright as the Sun, blue as the sky, but soft as
silk.

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DAY 2

Playing with Figurative Language:

Hyperbole
In literature, figurative language refers to the use of images or phrases that make different
kinds of comparisons. One type of figurative language is called hyperbole, which is an obvious
and usually funny exaggeration. For example, you may have heard the phrase, “I am so hungry I
could eat a horse!” This is hyperbole, since it is not meant to be serious and is over-the-top to
make a point. Good hyperbole is so exaggerated that the reader knows immediately that you are
joking.

ACTIVITY 3
Complete each sentence using a hyperbole of your own creation!

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1. I sat in one place so long during the painting class that _________________
___________________________.

2. The house was as big as a ________________________________________.

3. After working out for months I was as strong as an _____________________.

4. My dog made the funniest noise yesterday. It sounded like ______________

________________________________.

5. After I got straight A’s on my report card, I was so happy that I could
______________________________.

ACTIVITY 4
WRITING PROMPT: Now write your own examples of personification! Jot down the
characteristics, qualities and feelings for each subject word, and write a sentence using
personification.
1. Ocean
CHARACTERISTICS: _____________________________________________________
QUALITIES: ____________________________________________________________
FEELINGS: _________________________________________________________
Sentence:__________________________________________________________________

2. Snow
CHARACTERISTICS: ______________________________________________________
QUALITY: ______________________________________________________________
FEELING: __________________________________________________________
Sentence:__________________________________________________________________

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3. River
CHARACTERISTICS: ______________________________________________________
QUALITY: ______________________________________________________________
FEELING: __________________________________________________________
Sentence:__________________________________________________________________
4.Monkey
CHARACTERISTICS: ______________________________________________________
QUALITY: ______________________________________________________________
FEELING: __________________________________________________________
Sentence:__________________________________________________________________

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DAY 3
Idioms are common phrases that have a different meaning from the actual words used.

EXAMPLES

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ACTIVITY 5

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ACTIVITY 6
Mixed Practice: Similes and Metaphors
Directions: Read the sentence and circle the 2 words being compared in each
sentence. Determine whether each sentence is a simile or a metaphor, and write down the
meaning based on the context of the sentence.
Example: She walks like a duck. Meaning: The girl walks funny. (simile)
1. Steven sings like a nightingale.
Meaning:
2. The candle is a beacon of sunshine.
Meaning:
3. The moon is a lantern in the sky.
Meaning:
4. Kirsten sleeps like a log. Meaning:
Meaning:
6. Phillip is lightning when he runs a race.
Meaning:
7. The bunny’s fur is a blanket of warmth.
Meaning:
8. Anne’s voice is velvet.
Meaning:
9. Peter is as sweet as pie.
Meaning:
10. Chris is like a computer when he does his math.
Meaning:
11. You are a couch potato.
Meaning:
12. This contract is as solid as the ground we stand on.
Meaning:
13. The world is my oyster.
Meaning:
14. That guy is as nutty as a fruitcake.
Meaning:
15. Don’t just sit there like a bump on a log.
Meaning:

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Activity 7

Figurative Language Test

Directions: Choose only one answer. You are responsible for making clean marks and
erasing your mistakes. Try your best. When you are done, check your answers.

SECTION 1 – DEFINITIONS: Match the term with the definition. Shade in the
appropriate bubble.

For questions 1 through 4. Not all of the choices are used.

1. metaphor A. exaggeration for effect

2. alliteration B. comparison of two or more things using “like” or “as”

3. simile C. when one idea or sentence is stretched over two or more

lines.
4. hyperbole
D. repeating the same starting sounds of words.

E. comparison of two or more things not using “like” or “as”

For questions 5 through 8. Not all of the choices are used.

5. rhythm A. repeating the same starting sounds of words.

6. repetition B. when one idea or sentence is stretched over two or more

lines.
7. rhyme
C. a regular pattern of stresses, like a beat.
8. enjambment
D. when a poet repeats a word or words to emphasize

E. when two words share the same final sound

For questions 9 through 12. Not all of the choices are used.

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9. personification A. when a words pronunciation imitates its sound

10. onomatopoeia B. when the outcome of a situation is the exact opposite of

what was expected
11. imagery
C. giving human traits or characteristics to an object or idea
12. irony
D. writing that uses the five senses to create “pictures”

E. exaggeration for effect

SECTION 2 – EXAMPLES

Directions: Read the following examples of figurative language. Identify the poetic
device that is most clearly being used. Choose the best answer.

13. When you, my Dear, are away, away, / How wearily goes the day.
         A year drags after morning, and night / Starts another year
a. metaphor b. onomatopoeia c. irony d. simile e. hyperbole

14. Chicago is a city that is fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action.

a. enjambment b. metaphor c. simil d. onomatopoeia e. repetition

15. Gracefully she sat down sideways, / With a simper smile

a. rhyme b. simile c. metaphor d. personification e. alliteration

16. Drip—hiss—drip—hiss— fall the raindrops.

a. metaphor b. hyperbole c. personification d. onomatopoeia e. simile

17. The fountain tossed its water, / Up and up, like silver marbles.

a. simile b. hyperbole c. rhyme d. metaphor e. idiom

18. Falstaff sweats to death, as he walks along; / Were't not for laughing, I should pity
him.
a. rhyme b. personification c. simile d. metaphor e. hyperbole

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19. Lives of great men remind us / We can make our lives sublime;
       And, departing, leave behind us / Footprints on the sands of time.

a. simile b. metaphor c. onomatopoeia d. personification e. hyperbole

20. His sorrow goes / Like mountain snows / In waters sweet and clear,

a. simile b. hyperbole c. metaphor d. onomatopoeia e. repetition

21. The tear-drop trickled to his chin: / There was a meaning in her grin

a. hyperbole b. rhyme c. repetition d. simile e. metaphor

22. All night long with rush and lull / The rain kept drumming on the roof:

a. simile b. hyperbole c. repetition d. personification e. rhyme

23. The child with / her infinite energy / would run / her parents to / the ground

a. metaphor b. simile c. hyperbole d. personification e. repetition

24. My love is like a red, red rose.

a. repetition b. personification c. onomatopoeia d. metaphor e. rhyme

25. When the stooping sky / Leans down upon the hills   

a. hyperbole b. personification c. metaphor d. simile e. repetition

26. There’s a patch of old snow in a corner.

a. simile b. metaphor c. imagery d. irony e. repetition

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SECTION 3 – WHOLE POEMS: Read the poems and the questions. Choose the
BEST answer.
We Wear the Mask
Paul Laurence Dunbar
We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our
eyes,--
This debt we pay to human guile1;
With torn and bleeding hearts we
smile,
And mouth with myriad2 subtleties3.
Why should the world be overwise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.
We smile, but, O great Christ, our
cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile4
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!
1. Guile: treacherous cunning;
skillful deceit.
2. Myriad: a vast number; many.
3. Subtleties: being difficult to
detect.
4. Vile: loathsome; disgusting.
5. Docile: yielding to direction.
27. Which of the above poems has a continuous rhythm?
a. We Wear the Mask
d. neither of these poems
28. Which of the above poems use rhyme?
a. We Wear the Mask
Poet Among Barbarians
By: John Gould Fletcher
The rain drives, drives endlessly,
Heavy threads of rain;
The wind beats at the shutters,
The surf drums on the shore;
Drunken telephone poles lean sideways;
Dank summer cottages gloom hopelessly;
Bleak factory-chimneys are etched on the
filmy distance,
Tepid2 with rain.
It seems I have lived for a hundred years
Among these things;
And it is useless for me now to make
complaint against them.
For I know I shall never escape from this
Dull barbarian country,
Where there is none now left to lift a cool jade
winecup,
Or share with me a single human thought.
6. Tepid: only slightly warm; luke warm.
b. Poet Among Barbarians
c. both of these poems
b. Poet Among Barbarians
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d. neither of these poems c. both of these poems

29. Which of the above poems uses more hyperbole?

a. We Wear the Mask b. Poet Among Barbarians

d. neither of these poems c. both of these poems

30. Which of the above poems uses enjambment?

a. We Wear the Mask b. Poet Among Barbarians

d. neither of these poems c. both of these poems

31. Which of the above poems uses metaphor?

a. We Wear the Mask b. Poet Among Barbarians

d. neither of these poems c. both of these poems
32. Which of the above poems uses simile?

a. We Wear the Mask b. Poet Among Barbarians

d. neither of these poems c. both of these poems

33. Which of the above poems uses repetition?

a. We Wear the Mask b. Poet Among Barbarians

d. neither of these poems c. both of these poems

34. Which of the above poems uses more personification?

a. We Wear the Mask b. Poet Among Barbarians

d. neither of these poems c. both of these poems

35. In which of the above poems does the speaker use a pleasant or joyful tone?

a. We Wear the Mask b. Poet Among Barbarians

d. neither of these poems c. both of these poems

A Patch of Old Snow Bee, I’m Expecting You!

Robert Frost Emily Dickenson

There’s a patch of old snow in a corner Bee, I’m expecting you!

That I should have guessed Was saying yesterday
Was a blow-away paper the rain To somebody you know
Had brought to rest. That you were due.

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It is speckled with grime as if
Small print overspread it,
The news of a day I’ve forgotten—
If I ever read it.
The frogs got home last week,
Are settled and at work,
Birds mostly back,
The clover warm and thick.
You’ll get my letter by
The seventeenth; reply,
Or better, be with me.
Yours,
Fly.

36. Which of the above poems uses rhyme?

a. A Patch of Old Snow b. Bee, I’m Expecting You c. neither d. both

37. Which of the above poems uses more personification?

a. A Patch of Old Snow b. Bee, I’m Expecting You c. neither d. both

38. Which of the above poems uses simile?

a. A Patch of Old Snow b. Bee, I’m Expecting You c. neither d. both

39. Which of the above poems uses hyperbole?

a. A Patch of Old Snow b. Bee, I’m Expecting You c. neither d. both

40. Which of the above poems resembles a letter?

a. A Patch of Old Snow b. Bee, I’m Expecting You c. neither d. both

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DAY 4

ACTIVITY 8

Read the poem below and circle each case of assonance or consonance.
Hint: Read the poem out loud so you can really hear the sound of the words.

The Raven

By Edgar Allan Poe

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door;

ACTIVITY 9

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Directions: Assonance and consonance are often used together. Read the quotes below
and figure out where assonance and/or consonance are being used. Then write down what
sounds are being repeated.
Example: Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. o-Assonance
1. From the molten golden notes,
2. Her finger hungered for a ring.
3. Cupid laid by his brand.
4. How they clang, and clash,
5. and roar! What a horror they outpour.
6. Whose woods these are I think I know.
7. He saw the cost and hauled off.
8. Gayle tapped a finger on the sack of books in her lap.
9. I sipped the rim with palatable lip.
10. A gallant knight, in sunshine and in shadow,
11. “Thou art a fool,” said my head to my heart.
12. What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
13. It was half as funny.
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DAY 5

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ACTIVITY 9

Directions: Answer the questions below.

1. WHO IS SPEAKING?
2. TO WHOM IS THE SPEAKER SPEAKING?
3. WHAT DOES THE 1ST QUATRAIN CONVEY?
4. WHAT DOES THE 2ND QUATRAIN CONVEY?
5. WHAT DOES THE 3RDQUATRAIN CONVEY?
6. WHAT DOES THE COUPLET CONVEY?
7. WHAT IS THE IMPLICATION OF THE TITLE?

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Fiction is a genre that uses imaginary characters and stories, rather than using real
events that happened. However, many fiction writers base their imaginary stories on real
events. Most fictional stories are somewhat realistic so that the reader can both relate to
and learn from it. In fact, many fiction writers use their own life experiences as a starting
point for their stories. The fiction genre is very broad and includes many sub-genres, such
as science fiction, historical fiction, fantasy and more.
Most fiction stories have some element of truth, whether it’s the personalities of the
characters, the scenery and setting, or the general storyline. Authors can use part of a real-
life experience to build a new story that will better show what they felt, saw and came to
understand from that experience.

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ACTIVITY 10

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ACTIVITY 11
Direction: Write a short story that is exactly 26 sentences long. Each sentence
should begin with the next letter of the alphabet. Use the various elements,
techniques, and literary devices in your composition.
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Imagery and meaning. Retrieved from http://www.slideshare.net

Figurative Language. Retrieved from www.education.com/worksheets

Figures of Speech. Retrieved June 29,2020 from

http://hitbullseye.com/Vocabulary

Genres . Retrieved from www.education.com/worksheets

Mabillard, Amanda. Shakespearean Sonnet Basics: Iambic Pentameter and the

English Sonnet Style. Shakespeare Online. Retrieved August 1, 2017 from
http://www.shakespeareonline.com/sonnets/sonnetstyle.html

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