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Lesson IMAGINATIVE WRITING

1 VERSUS TECHNICAL WRITING

What I Need to Know

At the end of this lesson, you are expected to differentiate
imaginative writing from technical writing.
(HUMSS_CW/MP11/12-Ia-b-1)

What Is It
LESSON 1.1. What is creative writing?

“Creative Writing” is additionally called the “art of constructing things up”. It's
any writing that doesn't follow the traditional skilled, print media, tutorial or technical
types of literature, usually known by a stress on narrative crafts, character development
and therefore the use of literary tropes or with numerous traditions of poetry and literary
study. It's wherever the aim of writing is to specific thoughts, feelings and emotions
instead of to feed information.
Creative Writing vs. Technical Writing

Let’s look at the fundamental differences between creative and technical

writing.

Creative Writing Technical Writing

 Fictional & Imaginative  Factual

Entertaining, Provocative & Captivating Informative, Instructional or Persuasive

Artistic, Figurative, Symbolic or Even Clear, Precise and Straightforward

Vague

Subjective Objective

Generalized Vocabulary Specialized Vocabulary

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 To add it up, creative writing is for masses but technical writing is for specific
audience. In creative writing, the most of the part is self – created, although the idea
might be inspired but in technical writing the facts are to be delivered and the ideas
are delivered from leading on what others have thought.

What’s More
Think and write. Go over with the following texts given below. Write
CW if the writing is an example of Creative Writing and write TW if it is
an example of Technical Writing. Write your answer on the space
provided.

1. “Let me not to the marriage of true minds,

Admit impediments,
Love is not love “

- Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

(Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki)

2. “He could not have been bigger than this,” the frog said.
But the little Frogs all declared that the monster was much,
much bigger… “

- Aesop Fable : The Frog and the Fox

(Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki)

3. “It isn’t a new problem. Addiction is an ugly foe that ruins lives.”
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- EDITORIAL entitled “Drug
Addiction: A Public Health Crisis “
(Source : www.countytimes.com/opinion)

4. “Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,

and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible, without surrender,
be on good terms with all persons.”

- Desiderata by Max Ehrmann

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( Source : https://www.desiderata.com )

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 5. “According to the Indian census, carried out in 2011,
the population of India was exactly 1,210,193,422,
which means India has crossed the 1-billion mark.”

- News Overpopulation in India

(Source : https: //www.mapsofindia.com)

6. ” All creatures great and small; all things wise and wonderful,
the Lord God made them all “

All Things Bright & Beautiful by Cecil Frances Alexander

(Source : https://www.lds.org )

7. “The little prince “tells the story of a pilot stranded in the desert fixing his airplane, until
one day he meets a little boy – the Little Prince. “

-Book Review: The Little Prince (Source: https://www.imagineforest.com )

8.
School absenteeism is an alarming problem for
administrators, teachers, parents, society in general, and pupils in
particular. Unaccepted absences have a negative effect on
peer relationships, which can cause further absences.

Action Research on Student and Pupil Absenteeism in School

(Source: https://owlcation.com/academia )

9. The Intruder is a 2019 American psychological thriller film

directed by Deon Taylor and written by David Loughery. The film
stars Michael Ealy and Meagan Good as a couple who buy a house
in the country, only to realize its previous owner refuses to let it go.

- The Intruder Movie

(Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki )

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 10.“Who am I, that the Lord of all the earth
Would care to know my name, Would care to feel my hurt?

-Who am I by Casting Crowns (Source : https://www.azlyrics.com )

ASSESSMENT
Arrange the following terms into their proper type of writing. Write the
correct word in either Creative Writing or Technical Writing.

personal research formal inform

story instructional Serious entertaining

conversationalinformal

CREATIVE WRITING TECHNICAL WRITING

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 Lesson
SENSORY DETAILS
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What I Need to Know

At the end of this lesson, you are expected to cull creative

ideas from experiences and utilize language to evoke
emotional and intellectual responses from readers
(HUMSS_CW/MP11/12-Ia-b-3 and HUMSS_CW/MP11/12-Ia-b-2)

What I Know

Direction: Write TRUE if you agree with the statement. Otherwise,

write FALSE. Write the answer in each blank.

1. Sensory details are used in any great story, literary or even in movie.
2. Writers employ the 4 senses in writing to engage a reader’s interest.
3. When sensory details are used, readers can not personally experience
what you want them to experience.
4. In using the sensory details, the writer is able connect with readers
personally.
5. Without sensory details, stories would still come to life.

What’s New

Using the five senses (sight, sound, touch, taste or smell) in your writing to show
details, fill in the blanks with the appropriate sensory information in every situation
given.

1. I saw a bird in the tree. I was amazed with its wings.

2. The boy shouted and the sound irritated my ears. The sound was so
.
3. The ice cream was excellent. It tasted
.
4. I walked along the sand on the beach. The sand felt .
5. Her perfume seemed friendly in my nose. It was fragrant and smelled like
.

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What Is It

LESSON 1.2. Sensory Details in Writing: Definition & Examples

The writer’s ability to produce a strong and memorable story has much to do
with appealing our five senses. Writers use the sense of sight, sound, touch, smell
and taste to arouse a reader’s interest. When sensory details are being added to
writings, your readers can personally experience whatever you are trying to describe,
let them remember of their own experiences, giving the writing a universal feel.
Without using sensory details, stories would fail to come to real life.

Let’s look at the sensory details in action. Compare the following two passages
describing a trip to the grocery store.

Here is the passage without sensory details:

“I went to the store and bought some flowers. Then I headed to the meat
department. Later I realized I forgot to buy bread.”

Now, this doesn’t give an impact on you. There’s nothing to bring you into the
writer’s world.

Read this with the addition of sensory details:

“Upon entering the grocery store, I headed directly for the flower department,
where I spotted colorful daisies. As I tenderly rested the daisies in my rusty shopping
cart, I caught a familiar enchanted scent, so I added the fragrant bouquet of roses to
my cart. While heading for the meat department, I smelled the stinky of seafood,
which made my appetite disappear. Later I realized I forgot to buy bread. “

See how the additional details made that situation come to life? Writing with the
5 senses is an important part of writing very well. Adjectives excite writing to life and
bring the reader into the text and help activate his or her imagination. Sensory details
make the reader feel like he or she was there and create more close connection to
the writer and a greater understanding of the text.

(Source : https://study.com/academy)

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 What’s More
Read the selection below. Select and write in the blanks the
corresponding sensory details for each of the following senses.

The sweet smell of chocolates seems to call me in the evening. The attraction of
its delectable taste is really hard to resist. When the temptation is too much to
handle, I tip-toe into the kitchen, past the photos of colorful flowers hanging on the
wall and over the cracking sounds of the hardwood floors. The sight of those
beautifully- rounded chocolates only increases the fast beating of my heart and
salivating in my mouth. The taste of its delectable, melting goodness on my tongue
causes all my senses to celebrate.
1. Sense of sight

2. Sense of sound

3. Sense of smell

4. Sense of taste

5. Sense of touch

Assessment
Read each clue. Using the word bank, decide on the sensory word that best
matches the context. Then, write it in the blank beside each clue. WORD BANK

Silky rumbling mumbling crowded

scratchy messy smoky Tart
soaking

1. Characteristics of a burning building

2. The taste of spoiled food
3. Sound that thunder might make
4. How satin feels when you touch it
5. When there are a lot of people in one location
6. Feeling very sharp when it is touched
7. Speaking very quietly and muffled
8. Having lots of muscles
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 9. Making very wet with water
10. Seeing the room dirty or stinky

Lesson LANGUAGE: IMAGERY

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What I Need To Know
At the end of this lesson, you are expected to be able to use imagery.

CLOSE READING
What do you give/offer to the one you love? Read the poem silently and
complete the activity to follow.

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (1599)

Christopher Marlowe

Source: https://bit.ly/2OZcoD5

Come live with me and be my love,

And we will all the pleasures prove
That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods, or steepy mountain yields.
And we will sit upon rocks,
Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow rivers to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.
And I will make thee beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant poises,
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle;
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 A gown made of the finest wool
Which from our pretty lambs we pull;
Fair lined slippers for the cold,
With buckles of the purest gold;

A belt of straw and ivy buds,

With coral clasps and amber studs;
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Come live with me, and be my love.
The shepherds’ swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each May morning:
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my love.

LESSON 1.3. Image & Imagery

IMAGE

 Image is a representation of an experience or object perceived through the

senses – sight, smell, taste, touch and hearing.
 An image does not always suggest the same thing to all readers because
readers have different sets of experiences. An image, however, enables
readers to evoke specific emotions, which shall approximate the experience
the author wishes to create.
 Mental pictures stimulated by words that appeal to the senses. A single image
or comparison extending throughout the literary work, thus shaping its
meaning is called controlling image.
IMAGERY

 It most commonly refers to the visual pictures within a work produced verbally;
though it is often defined more broadly to include sensory experiences, other
than the visual.
 Imagery is a literary device of forming images collectively (Webster’s Dictionary
of the English Language, 1992).
 This refers to words and phrases that create vivid sensory; is used to signify
all the objects and qualities of sense perception referred to other works of
literature.
 Imagery is categorized into five types:
a. Visual imagery – objects that provoke the sense of sight
b. Auditory imagery – those that trigger the sense of hearing
c. Olfactory imagery - those that stimulate the sense of smell
d. Tactile imagery - those that apprehend the sense of touch
e. Gustatory imagery - those that compel the sense of taste

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 The terms that seem most concrete, those that evoke sensual images, are underlined.

Siargao: A Surfing Paradise

Source: https://bit.ly/2HbnGOj
Retrieved: August 16, 2019

The unspoiled teardrop shaped island called

Siargao is a Shangri-la for adventurers and nature
lovers. It is the surfing capital of the Philippines. This
surfing haven is located 800 kilometers Southeast of
Manila. Siargao is now one of the world's great
frontiers for surf exploration. Its most popular break is
"Cloud
Nine." Surfing is best from July to November when strong waves are in
constant motion. The powerful wave-off "Cloud 9" has been hailed as one
of the world's five toughest breaks and has been frequently compared to
the famous surf of Hawaii and Australia.

Siargao's "Cloud Nine", a powerful hollow right hander, featured in "Surf

Magazine" as one of the ten best waves in the world. East of Siargao
Islands lies the Philippine Deep that rises from over 34,000 ft to a belt of
reefs. This Oceanic trench is the reason for the excellent surf in Siargao;
because it is so deep and the continental shelf narrow, the waves break
with juice straight out of deep water and focus the wave energy straight at
the beach. This area is set to become Asia's next hot surfing destination
and is truly one of the worlds' last great frontiers for surf exploration.

Without those terms the passage would be thin and flat. There would be
no verbal picture, no sensual re-creation of place.

What’s More

Activity 5. The paragraphs below are the continuation of the travelogue above. It is
now your turn to underline/write the words/phrases that evoke sensory experience
through imagery.

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 Siargao Island is Surigao Del Norte's "last frontier" facing the Pacific
Ocean. The island boasts of quite a number of untapped natural
resources that tourists marvel. Aside from the white beaches that
abound, the seas of Siargao are the fishermen's choice to catch fish and
other marine products. This year, under the administration of Gov.
Robert Lyndon Barbers, Siargao's infrastructure development got the
much needed "shot in the arm" with its people seeing and feeling the
improvements where during the previous provincial leaderships, "it was
only but a dream," so they said.

Are you ready for island hopping? There are islets where you'll find
fine white sand beaches and crystal clear waters comparable to Boracay
Paradise. The three favorites - Guyam, Daku and Naked Islands are
close to General Luna and can be visited by renting your own banca for
only P1,000.00. Traveling around the town makes easier with habal-
habal, a motorcycle that can load up to 7 passengers to that will bring
you to different destinations in town.

What I Can Do

Activity 6. Think of a song that abounds in imagery. Write/secure the lyrics of the
song and underline the words/phrases that employ imagery. Label the underlined
words/phrases with the type of imagery utilized; write the label above the underlined
words/phrases. Use VI if it is visual imagery; AI for auditory imagery; OI for olfactory
imagery; TI for tactile imagery and GI for gustatory imagery. An example is given for
you.
Example:
Your Love (by Alamid)

Chorus:
VI VI
Your love is like the sun that lights up my whole world
TI
I feel the warmth inside

VI & OI
Your love is like a river that flows down through my veins
TI

I feel the chill inside

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 What’s New

CLOSE READING. Read the short story ‘The Flowers’ by Alice Walker and do the
activity to follow.

The Flowers (1973)

Alice Walker

(1) It seemed to Myop as she skipped lightly from hen house to pigpen to
smokehouse that the days had never been as beautiful as these. The air held a
keenness that made her nose twitch. The harvesting of the corn and cotton, peanuts
and squash, made each day a golden surprise that caused excited little tremors to
run up her jaws.

(2) Myop carried a short, knobby stick. She struck out at random at
chickens she liked, and worked out the beat of a song on the fence around the
pigpen. She felt light and good in the warm sun. She was ten, and nothing existed for
her but her song, the stick clutched in her dark brown hand, and the tat-de-ta-ta-ta of
accompaniment.

(3) Turning her back on the rusty boards of her family's sharecropper
cabin, Myop walked along the fence till it ran into the stream made by the spring.
Around the spring, where the family got drinking water, silver ferns and wildflowers
grew. Along the shallow banks pigs rooted. Myop watched the tiny white bubbles
disrupt the thin black scale of soil and the water that silently rose and slid away down
the stream.

(4) She had explored the woods behind the house many times. Often, in
late autumn, her mother took her to gather nuts among the fallen leaves. Today she
made her own path, bouncing this way and that way, vaguely keeping an eye out for
snakes. She found, in addition to various common but pretty ferns and leaves, an
armful of strange blue flowers with velvety ridges and some sweet suds bush full of
the brown, fragrant buds.

(5) By twelve o'clock, her arms laden with sprigs of her findings, she was a
mile or more from home. She had often been as far before, but the strangeness of
the land made it not as pleasant as her usual haunts. It seemed gloomy in the little cove in
which she found herself. The air was damp, the silence close and deep.

(6) Myop began to circle back to the house, back to the peacefulness of
the morning. It was then she stepped smack into his eyes. Her heel became lodged
in the broken ridge between brow and nose, and she reached down quickly,

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unafraid, to free herself. It was only when she saw his naked grin that she gave a
little yelp of surprise.

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 (7) He had been a tall man. From feet to neck covered a long space. His
head lay beside him. When she pushed back the leaves and layers of earth and
debris Myop saw that he'd had large white teeth, all of them cracked or broken, long
fingers, and very big bones. All his clothes had rotted away except some threads of
blue denim from his overalls. The buckles of the overall had turned green.

(8) Myop gazed around the spot with interest. Very near where she'd
stepped into the head was a wild pink rose. As she picked it to add to her bundle she
noticed a raised mound, a ring, around the rose's root. It was the rotted remains of a
noose, a bit of shredding plowline, now blending benignly into the soil. Around an
overhanging limb of a great spreading oak clung another piece. Frayed, rotted,
bleached, and frazzled--barely there--but spinning restlessly in the breeze. Myop laid
down her flowers.

(9) And the summer was over.

Source: https://bit.ly/2Zb7Q0l
Retrieved: August 16, 2019

What’s More

Activity 7.
Be imagery-fic! Choose a paragraph in the story ‘The Flowers’ that
you like the most. Draw a vignette that depicts the images portrayed
in that paragraph.

What I Can Do

Activity 8.
Imagine introducing the most influential person in your life to a
person who is both deaf and mute. Since that person cannot hear
nor speak, think and draw the best image that best represents the
person whom you consider the most influential person in your life.

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What I Need To Know
At the end of this lesson, you are expected
to be able to use diction.
(HUMSS_CW/MP11/12-Ia-b-4)

What Is It

Lesson 1.4. What is Diction?

Diction is the author’s choice or selection of words or vocabulary; the artistic
arrangement that words constitute. Good writing makes good use of diction. The
words should be right and accurate, appropriate to the context in which they are
used, and comprehensible to the intended audience. Otherwise, a message maybe
perceived differently or erroneously from the intended message.
What is diction error?
A diction error is a “wrong word” error. Diction error is a word that almost
sounds right. For instance, if an employer says “We interviewed perspective
candidates”, she has committed an error in diction. Instead, ‘prospective’, not
‘perspective’ should be used. Perspective means point of view, but prospective
means potential.
Thus, “We interviewed prospective candidates”, is more appropriate.

Correcting Diction Error

1. That there woman is our teacher.

‘There’ is misplaced in the sentence. Thus, the better way of writing it is:
“That woman there is our teacher.”

2. The teacher will learn us the rules.

The word ‘learn’ is inappropriately used. Thus, it is better to say:

“The teacher will teach us the rules.”

3. In this class, all accept one boy passed.

‘Accept’ means to take, receive or admit. Considering the context, the sentence
means that all boys except for one. Thus:

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Assessment

Activity 9. Correcting Diction Error. Rewrite the following sentences to correct the
diction error.

1. Oh, I ate two much!

2. Janet doesn’t work hear anymore.
3. No thanks, I don’t want none of that cake.
4. The man which stole the car was caught.
5. My book is their on the table.

Lesson LANGUAGE: FIGURES OF

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What I Need To Know

At the end of this lesson, you are expected to use figures of speech.
(HUMSS_CW/MP11/12-Ia-b-4).

What I Know

Let’s do a Self-Audit. Answer the following questions to assess how much you
know about figures of speech. Read closely the sentences below then identify the
figures of speech employed in each sentence. Choose your answers from the words
inside the box below.

Simile metaphor onomatopoeia

personificationApostrophehyperbole
alliteration synecdoche Metonymy
oxymoron paradox
1. Oh, my love is like a red, red rose.
2. I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
3. Oh flat 1! Why play hard to get?
4. If somebody throws stones at you, throw him bread.
5. Seize the throne!

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 6. Lake Pinatubo is a beautiful disaster.
7. Pitter, Patter, Pitter, Patter. Softly it falls. Hurry home quickly before mother calls

8. Our cat meows and our dog barks loudly when the stranger passes by in the
middle of the night.
9. The trees sway as the strong wind blows.
10. Oh! With this hunger I have, I could eat a horse!
11. I am feeding 11 mouths at home.

What’s New

Activity 10. If I Were… Complete the statement, “If I were an

inanimate object, I would be a/n ” and explain why.

What’s New

Close Reading. What does an ambulance do? Read the poem silently
and answer the questions that follow.

Auto Wreck (1942)

Karl Shapiro

Its quick soft silver bell beating, beating,

And down the dark one ruby flare Pulsing
out red light like an artery,
The ambulance at top speed floating down
Past beacons and illuminated clocks Wings in
a heavy curve, dips down,
And brakes speed, entering the crowd. The
doors leap open, emptying light; Stretchers
are laid out, the mangled lifted And stowed
into the little hospital.
Then the bell, breaking the hush, tolls once. And
the ambulance with its terrible cargo Rocking,
slightly rocking, moves away,
As the doors, an afterthought, are closed.

We are deranged, walking among the cops Who

sweep glass and are large and composed.
One is still making notes under the light. One
with a bucket douches ponds of blood Into the
street and gutter.
One hangs lanterns on the wrecks that cling,
Empty husks of locusts, to iron poles.
Our throats were tight as tourniquets, Our
feet were bound with splints, but now, Like
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 convalescents intimate and gauche, We
speak through sickly smiles and warn With
the stubborn saw of common sense,

The grim joke and the banal resolution.

The traffic moves around with care, But
we remain, touching a wound
That opens to our richest horror.
Already old, the question Who shall die?
Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?

For death in war is done by hands; Suicide

has cause and stillbirth, logic; And cancer,
simple as a flower, blooms.
But this invites the occult mind,
Cancels our physics with a sneer,
And spatters all we knew of denouement
Across the expedient and wicked stones.

Source: https://bit.ly/2KClEsH
Retrieved: August 16, 2019

What Is It
Lesson 1.5. Figurative Language
Figurative language is used and should be understood imaginatively and
non-literally. It is composed of tropes or figures of speech. There are several figures
of speech. The most commonly used by authors are: simile, metaphor,
onomatopoeia, personification, apostrophe, hyperbole, alliteration, synecdoche,
metonymy, oxymoron and paradox.
Simile is comparing unlike objects, which have something in common through
the use of expressions ‘like’ or ‘as’.

Example:
“Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? or fester like a sore- And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over – Like a syrupy sweet?”
-Langdon Hughes, “What Happens to Dream Deferred?”

In here, two unlike things are under comparison through the use of
the word “like”.

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 Metaphor comes from the Greek word meta and trans which mean across;
phor and fer which mean carry. Hence, metaphor treats something as if it were
something else. It is a means of comparing things that are essentially unlike; the
comparison however is implied unlike simile – that is, the figurative term is
substituted for or identified with the literal term.

Example:

“Hope is the things with feathers- That perches in the soul-

And sings the tune without words- and never stops - at all- “

-Emily Dickinson, “Hope is the Things with Feathers”

In here, hope is directly compared to feathers; it perches and sings without a

tune that never stops. Unlike simile which

Onomatopoeia or sound words uses words that imitate sounds associated with
objects or actions.

Example:

“How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night!

To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells-
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.”

-Edgar Allan Poe, “Bells”

The sound of bells: tinkle, tintinnabulation, jingling and tinkling are examples
of onomatopoeia.

Other very common onomatopoeic words are sounds produced by animals.

Hiss for snake, moo for cow/buffalo,

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 Personification, on the other hand, endows human attributes, qualities or
abilities to inanimate objects or abstractions.

Example:

“Ah, William, we’re weary of weather,” Said the sunflowers, shining with dew.
“Our traveling habits have tired us.
Can you give us a room with a view?”

-William Blake, “Two Sunflowers Move in the Yellow Room”

The sunflowers here are given the human ability to speak.

Apostrophe is addressing someone absent as if s/he were present, someone

dead as if s/he were alive or something and someone non-human as if human.

Example:

“Death be not proud, though some have called thee

Mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not soe,
For, those, whom thou think’st, thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor death, nor
yet canst thou kill me.”

-John Donne, “Death be not Proud”

Death, an abstraction is being addressed to by the persona in the poem as if it

were a person.

Hyperbole/overstatement is the exaggeration for emphasis or ‘in the service for

truth’; the exaggeration can create a vivid and instant picture about the idea. Aside
from achieving emphasis, hyperbole is used to simply achieve humor.

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 Example:
“Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi’ the sun:
O I will love thee still, my dear,
While the sands o’ life shall run”
-Robert Burns, “A Red, Red Rose”

What are the exaggerations used here?

Alliteration is the repetition of the initial (first) consonant sound (not letter) in a
series of words/phrases.

Example:

“Peter piper picked a peck of pickled pepper A peck of pickled pepper Peter piper
pick
If Peter piper picked a peck of pickled pepper,
Where’s the peck of pickled pepper Peter piper pick?”

-Tongue Twister, “Peter Piper”

The initial consonant /p/ sound is repeated all over the text.

Synecdoche is the use of the part for the whole or the whole for the part.

Example (part for the whole):

“The western wave was all a-flame The day was well was nigh done! Almost upon the
western wave Rested the broad bright Sun”

-Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

The wave is part of the ocean. The wave refers to the whole ocean.
Example (whole for the part):
“Philippines won the Ms. Universe 2018 crown.”

The statement is an example that the whole represents the part. Only one person, not
the whole country, could have won the Miss Universe crown.

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 Metonymy is the use of something closely related to substitute the thing
actually meant or when something is described indirectly by referring to things
around it.
Example:

“Malacañan Palace declared Martial Law in Mindanao.”

It is not possible that a palace, an inanimate object can speak and declare
anything. However, the rightful person living in the palace, the President of the
Republic of the Philippines, can be substituted by the word ‘palace’; something
which is closely

Paradox is a statement that appears to contradict itself, but on second

reading, has an element of truth.

Example:

“Nobody wants to go to that restaurant because it is crowded”

At first glance, the sentence does not seem to make sense. However, when read
closely, it means that many people are discouraged to patronize the restaurant
because everytime they pay a visit, it is already full.

Oxymoron is a figure of speech where two obviously contradictory terms are

juxtaposed or are side-by-side.

Example:

“Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O anything, of nothing first create!
O heavy lightness! Serious vanity! Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health! Still-waking sleep, that is not
what it is!
This love feel I, that feel no love in this. Dost thou not laugh?”

-William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet”, Act 1, Scene 1

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Activity 11.
Closer Look

1. Look at the lists you made in the previous activities.

2. Is a figure of speech used in your first list? What figure of speech is it?
3. What about in your second list? What figure of speech is used, if any?
4. Can you categorize the words listed in your third list into figures of speech?

Deeper Look
1. Upon reading the word ‘ambulance’, what words or scenes did you associate it
with?
2. What do you think happened in the poem? Why was an ambulance present?
Was there an emergency? What word or phrase tells us this?
3. Was there a patient? Did the patients live or die? What word or phrase tells us
this?
4. What was the feeling of the onlookers? Were they happy or sad? What word
or phrase tells us this?
5. Can you point out the line that tells us the cause of death? What is the attitude
of the author toward death and its cause? What word or phrase gives us a
clue to this?
6. Have the figures of speech used helped you ‘picture’ the scenario described in
the poem? Explain.
7. What is the poem about?

Assessment

Write your own sentence demonstrating the figure of speech being asked in each item.

1. Simile
2. Metaphor
3. Hyperbole
4. Synecdoche
5. Metonymy
6. Alliteration
7. Oxymoron
8. Paradox
9. Onomatopoeia
10. Personification
11. Apostrophe

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