Republic of the Philippines

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Region I
San Fernando City
La Union
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF PANGASINAN II

ACTIVITY SHEETS IN CREATIVE WRITING

GRADE 12
QUARTER NUMBER 1, WEEK NUMBER 4 - 5

MELC: Identify the various elements, techniques, and literary devices

in specific forms of poetry.
 K to 12 BEC CG: HUMSS_CW/MP11/12-I c- f -6

Objectives: At the end of this activity, the learner should be able to:

1. Identify the different types of poetry.

2. Determine the poetic devices or techniques used in a poem.
3. Use poetic devices in their own writing.
4. Write a poem using the different elements and techniques in writing a poetry.

Prepared by:

BELEN B. MAMAYSON
SHS Teacher II

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Name: ___________________________________________ Date: _____________

Grade/Section: ____________________________________________ Score: ____________

Title of Activity: Get Ready to Jumble!

Most Essential Learning Competency: Identify the various elements, techniques, and
literary devices in specific form of poetry.
 K to 12 BEC CG: HUMSS_CW/MP11/12-I c- f -6

Directions: Arrange the jumbled letters in order to form the correct word
being described in each number. Write your answer on the blank.

_______________( T E N O S N ) 1. It is consisting of fourteen lines, made up of three

quatrains and a final couplet.

_______________( Q N U A I R A T ) 2. A stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate

rhymes.

_______________( T E L P O U C ) 3. Consists of two successive lines that rhyme and have the
same meter.

_______________ ( U K I A H ) 4. The traditional Japanese poem that contains 17 syllables

arranged in 3 lines of 5,7,5 syllables each.

_______________ ( L R Y C I ) 5. A poetry that expresses a speaker’s personal thoughts and

feelings.

_______________( M C T I A M D R ) 6. A poetry in which one or more characters speak.

_______________( S A L A D B L ) 7. A song or poem that tells a story.

_______________ ( S P I C E ) 8. A long narrative poem on a great and serious subject that is

centered on the actions of a heroic figure.

_______________( R E E F_ S E R V E) 9. It is a poetry that has no fixed pattern of meter,

rhyme, line length, or stanza arrangement.

_______________( T A N S A Z ) 10. A division in a poem named for the number of lines it

contains.

_______________( T E T S E S ) 11. It is found at the end of the sonnet.

_______________( C A V E T O ) 12. An eight-line stanza.

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Name: ___________________________________________ Date: _____________

Grade/Section: ____________________________________________ Score: ____________

Title of Activity: Figure It Out

Most Essential Learning Competency: Write a short poem applying the various
elements and literary devices exploring innovative techniques.

 K to 12 BEC CG: HUMSS_CW/MP11/12-I c- f -10

Direction: Read the lines of poetry. Identify two or more poetic techniques
being used in each example and write them on the line. In the boxes below,
explain each of your answers.

1. “A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings
And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.”

Which techniques are being used? _________________________________________

How do you figure?

2. “Click - clack, click - clack, the hoofs went past,

Who takes the dead coach travels fast,”

Which techniques are being used? _________________________________________

How do you figure?

3. “Never were fields so glad, nor skies so fair,

And Jove exults in Venus prospering.
Love is in all the water, earth and air,
And love possesses every living thing.

Which techniques are being used? _________________________________________

How do you figure?

4. Beautiful friendship tried by sun and wind,

Durable from the daily dust of life.
Which techniques are being used? _________________________________________

How do you figure?

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Name: ___________________________________________ Date: _____________
Grade/Section: ____________________________________________ Score: ____________

Title of Activity: YOUR POEM…….TAKE ONE!

Most Essential Learning Competency: Write a short poem applying the various
elements and literary devices exploring innovative techniques.

 K to 12 BEC CG: HUMSS_CW/MP11/12-I c- f -10

Directions: Write your own poem considering the different elements and
devices to be used in writing poetry. (See Rubrics below for evaluation)

Answer Key:
Activity 1
1. SONNET
2. QUATRAIN
3. COUPLET
4. HAIKU
5. LYRIC

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6. DRAMATIC
7. BALLADS
8. EPICS
9. FREE VERSE
10. STANZA
11. SESTET
12. OCTAVE

Activity 2:
1. Alliteration, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Consonance, Rhyme
- Because of the words sitting, tingling, pressing (consonance) and strings, sings rhymed.
2. Onomatopoeia, Rhyme
- Because of the sounds click- clack (onomatopoeia). past-fast, rhyme

3. Rhyme, consonance
- Because of the words fair and air, rhyme and consonance also

4. Consonance
- Because of the words sun and dust, assonance because of the words beautiful, friendship and
wind, they have same vowel sound “i”

Activity 3: POEM WRITING

See Rubrics for Evaluation

POETRY RUBRIC
1 2 3 4 SCORE
Uses May use an Effectively Creatively
FORM inappropriate appropriate uses uses
poetic form poetic form. appropriate appropriate
form form

Student’s use Student’s Student’s use Student’s use

WORD USAGE of use of of vocabulary of vocabulary
vocabulary is vocabulary is routine and is precise and
basic is more workable. vivid and
telling than paints a
showing strong clear
and complete
picture in the
reader’s
mind.

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 Uses few Uses some Uses poetic Effectively
POETIC poetic poetic techniques to Uses poetic
ELEMENTS techniques techniques reinforce the techniques to
to reinforce theme. reinforce the
the theme. theme.
May contain May contain Has mainly Has grade-
LANGUAGE frequent and many errors grade- level level
CONVENTIONS numerous appropriate appropriate
(spelling , errors spelling, spelling,
grammar) grammar, and grammar, and
punctuation punctuation
contains some contains some
errors that do errors that do
not interfere not interfere
with the with the
reader’s reader’s
understanding understanding
Lacks an Uses an Uses an Effective and
ILLUSTRATION illustration illustration illustration to creative use
that may enhance the of an
add to the poem’s illustration to
poem’s meaning enhance the
meaning poem’s
meaning

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References:

A. ONLINE/ INTERNET SOURCE

1. https://www.masterclass.com
2. https://www.tckpublishing.com
3. https://www.successcds.net
4. https://www.vocabulary.com

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