CREATIVE

WRITING
Use Imagery, Diction, Figures of Speech, and
Specific Experiences
1. Define imagery, diction, figures of speech, and
specific experiences; (Cognitive)
2. Write a brief descriptive paragraph and informal
letter incorporating imagery, figures of speech and
specific experiences; (Psychomotor)
3. Perceive a positive outlook about the future.
(Affective)
FIGURES OF SPEECH
● are connotative presentations of words to
produce a literary effect. These are
classified into figures of comparison,
contrast, representation or reference,
order, omission, addition, substitution,
repetition, and order.
FIGURES OF SPEECH

1. Simile – a stated comparison (formed

with “like” or “as” between two
fundamentally dissimilar things that have
certain qualities in common.

Example: “Life is like a game.”

2. Metaphor – an implied
comparison between two unlike
things that have something in
common.

EXAMPLE: “LIfe is a game.”

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

Example: In the fields, birds chirp, the

cows moo, the dogs bark, the cat
meows, the snakes hiss.
4. Personification – endows human
qualities or abilities to inanimate
objectsor abstraction.

Example: “The flowers are dancing

under the smiling sun.”
5. Apostrophe – is addressing an
absent person or thing that is an
abstract,
inanimate, or inexistent character.

Example: “Car, get me to work today.”

6. Hyperbole – a figure of speech
which contains an exaggeration for
emphasis.

Example: “To make enough noise to

wake the dead.”
7. Synecdoche – a figure of speech in
which the part stands for the whole,
and thus something else is understood
within the thing mentioned.

Example: “Give us this day out daily

bread”
*Bread stands for the meals taken each day.
8. Metonymy – a figure of speech in
which the name of an attribute or a thing
is substituted for the thing itself.

Example: “Friends, Romans,

countrymen, lend me your ears.”

*Lend me your ears = to pay attention; to listen

9. Oxymoron – a figure of speech
which combines incongruous and
apparently contradictory words and
meanings for a special effect.

Example: “Here’s much to do with hate,

but more with love.”
10. Paradox – a statement which seems
on its face to be logically contradictory
or absurd yet turns out to be interpretable
in a way that makes sense.

Example: “The more you hate, the more

you love.”