CREATIVE WRITING

We are capable of understanding and perceiving the world around us because our body
is designed to receive information through our sense organ.

Imagery is the literary device that enables the writers to point a picture using words.
This strategy involves using a catalyst, or a trigger to affect the reader's senses, emotions
and feelings.

TYPES OF IMAGERY

● Visual Imagery appeals to the reader's sense of sight.

● Auditory Imagery appeals to the reader's sense of hearing.
● Olfactory Imagery appeals to the reader's sense of smell
● Gustatory Imagery appeals to the reader's sense of taste.
● Tactile Imagery appeals to the reader's sense of touch
● Kinesthetic Imagery appeals to the reader's sense of motion. Kinesthetic
imagery is unrelated to the five basic senses and instead relates to the actions and
movements of people or objects. It describes physical movement, actions that
lead to touch and
temperature.
○ Ex: He rummaged through each drawer, hurling items to the floor until he
found the mysterious bracelet.
● Organic Imagery appeals to the reader's internal sensation and emotions.
Organic imagery is also unrelated to the five basic senses and instead appeals to
internal sensations, emotions and feelings. It describes personal experiences,
such as fatigue, hunger, thirst, love, fear, loneliness, despair, elation, and
nostalgia.
○ Ex: Her eyes lit up the moment she saw him, and she ran into his arms.

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

Figures of speech are the various strategic and creative uses of language that deviate from its
conventional order, construction, or meaning. Figures of speech are divided based on their
function in a text.
- Figures of Comparison (Simile and Metaphor)
- Figures of Representation or Reference (synecdoche, metonymy, personification,
allusion, and apostrophe)
- Figures of Contrast ( Oxymoron, Paradox and Irony)
- Figures of Repetition (anaphora)
- Figures of Exaggeration ( Hyperbole)

● Oxymoron It is a figure of speech that combines two contradicting words or

smaller verbal units to get the reader's attention.
○ Ex: Alone-Together, Big-Baby, Awfully-Good
● APOSTROPHE It is a figure of representation in which an absent or a
nonexistent person, an inanimate object, or an abstract quality is addressed
directly in the text as uf they are present.
○ Ex: Rizal, look what the youth is doing!, Blow winds, blow! Hello darkness
my old friend..I've come to talk to you again.
● Metonymy It is a figure of representation wherein the name of the object or
concept used in text is a substitute for a word closely related to it.
○ Ex: The White House declared a war against Iraq. ( White house -
American, president)
● Synecdoche It is a figure of representation in which a part of something
signifies its whole or the whole of something signifies its part.
○ Ex: Nice wheels! - The wheel is part of the car and it represents the whole
car.
● Irony It is a figure of speech that uses language to express something that is
opposite of what is actually meant. It has three types: Verbal Irony, Dramatic
Irony, and Situational Irony.
○ Verbal Irony - A type of irony in which the words conveyed by someone
is the opposite of what he or she intends to express.
■ Ex: What a nice day to hang clothes outside! (The weather is bad)
○ Situational Irony - A type of irony in which the situation or action that
happened in the story is the opposite of what is expected to occur.
■ Ex: The woman stole money from the thief.
○ Dramatic Irony - A type of irony in which the reader knows something
in the story that characters do not.
■ Ex: The audience knows that the man is cheating on his wife even if
she is still clueless about it.
● Anaphora It is a figure of repetition in which the same word or phrase is
repeated at the initial part of two or more sentences, clauses, or lines
○ Ex: Mad people, mad government, mad country!
● Hyperbole It is a figure of exaggeration used to heighten effect or for humor.
○ Ex: The joke is so funny that I died laughing! These shoes are killing me!
Cry me a river.