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Learning Objectives:
1. Use imagery, diction, figures of speech, and specific
experiences to evoke meaningful responses from readers
(HUMSS_CW/MP11/12-Ia-b-4)
2. Analyze the imagery, diction, figures of speech, and specific
experiences of the specific literary pieces.
3. Write short paragraphs or vignettes using imagery, diction,
figures of speech, and specific experiences.
What is Creative Writing?
Creative writing is any composing that goes beyond
ordinary expert, editorial, scholarly, or specialized types of
writing, normally distinguished by an accentuation on account
make, character advancement, and the utilization of abstract
tropes or with different customs of verse and poetics. It is
workable for composing, for example, include stories to be
viewed as exploratory writing, despite the fact that they fall
under news coverage, in light of the fact that the substance of
highlights is explicitly centered around account and character
improvement.
What Is Sensory Imagery?
Sensory Imagery includes the utilization of elucidating
language to make mental pictures. In abstract terms, it is a sort
of symbolism; the thing that matters is that tangible symbolism
works by drawing in a reader's five senses. It is an artistic
gadget author utilizes to draw in a reader's brain on numerous
levels. This investigates the five human detects: sight, sound,
taste, contact, and smell.
VISUAL IMAGERY engages the sense of sight.
Descriptions can be associated to Visual Imagery.
Physical attributes including color, size, shape,
lightness and darkness, shadows, and shade are all
part of visual imagery.
GUSTATORY IMAGERY engages the sense of taste. Flavors
are the considerations in gustatory imagery which includes the
five basic taste such as sweet, salty, bitter, sour, and umami—
as well as the textures and sensations tied to the act of eating.

AUDITORY IMAGERY engages the sense of hearing. Sound

devices such as onomatopoeia and alliteration can help create
sounds in writing.
OLFACTORY IMAGERY engages the sense of smell. Simile is
common in using olfactory imagery, because it lets writers to
compare a particular scent to common smells like dirt, grass,
manure, or roses. The use of scents and stinks are common ways
to use olfactory imagery.

TACTILE IMAGERY engages the sense of touch. The feel,

textures and many sensations a human being experiences when
touching something are associated in tactile imagery. Differences in
temperature is also a part of tactile imagery.
 In other references, there is a sixth sense
which called Kinesthetic imagery engages the
feeling of movement. This can be similar to tactile
imagery but deals more with full-body sensations,
such as those experienced during exercise. Rushing
water, flapping wings, and pounding hearts are all
examples of kinesthetic imagery.
What is Diction in Writing?

Diction is the careful selection of words to communicate a

message or establish a particular voice or writing style. For
example, flowy, figurative language creates colorful prose,
while a more formal vocabulary with concise and direct
language can help drive home a point.
What is the purpose of diction in writing?

Writers pick explicit words and expressions relying upon

the result they're attempting to accomplish. The motivation
behind a bit of composing decides its expression. In writing and
fiction composing, authors regularly utilize casual lingual
authority and interesting expressions or words utilized for non-
exacting implications, similar to comparisons and analogies. On
the off chance that a researcher is distributing a paper on their
exploration, in any case, the language will be specialized,
succinct, and formal, composed for a particular crowd.
Different
Types of
Diction in
Writing
1. Formal diction. Formal diction uses grammatical rules and uses
proper syntax or the formation of sentences. It is considered as a
professional choice of words which can be found in legal
documents like business correspondences and academic articles.

2. Informal diction. Informal diction is more conversational and

often used in narrative literature. This casual vernacular is
representative of how people communicate in real life, which gives
an author freedom to depict more realistic characters. Most of the
short stories and novels use informal diction to make it easier to
understand by anyone especially if the target audience is anyone.
3. Colloquial diction. These are expressions which are connected
to informal. It is generally representing a particular region or place
or era or period. Contractions in American English such as “ain’t”
instead of isn’t is an example of colloquial expressions, the use of
colloquialisms make the writing more realistic.

4. Slang diction. Slang is very informal language or specific

words used by a particular group of people. You'll usually hear
slang spoken more often than you'll see it put in writing, though
emails and texts often contain many conversational slang words.
5. Poetic diction. Poetic diction is driven by
melodious words that identify with a particular
subject reflected in a sonnet, and make a
musical, or agreeable, sound. It generally
includes the utilization of elucidating language,
in some cases set to a beat or rhyme.
What is Figure of Speech?
A figure of speech is a rhetorical
device that achieves a special effect by using
words in a distinctive way. Though there are
hundreds of figures of speech, here we'll focus
on 20 top examples.
Some Figures of Speech
Using original figures of speech in
our writing is an approach to pass on
implications in new, surprising ways. They
can enable our readers to comprehend and
remain puzzled by what we need to state.
1. Alliteration: The repetition of an initial
consonant sound.
Example: Betty Botter bought some butter.

2. Anaphora: The repetition of the same word

or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
or verses.
Example: Unexpetedly, we were in the wrong
event at the wrong time on the wrong day.
3. Antithesis: The combination of two different
elements to attian equillibrium or balance.
Example: As Abraham Lincoln said, "Folks who have
no vices have very few virtues.”

4. Apostrophe: Directly stating or calling a nonexistent

person or an inanimate object as though it were a living
being. It commonly uses an apostrophe as a
punctuation. Example: "Oh, rain! Rain! Where are you?
Rain, we really need you right now. Our town needs you
badly.”
 5. Assonance: It is the repetition of the vowel sounds in
the structure of sentences or lines.
Example: We shall meet on the beach to reach the
“Meach” Concert.

6. Chiasmus: A sentence or line structure where the half

of the statement is balanced against the other half.
Example: The noble teacher said teachers should live to
teach, not teach to live.
7. Euphemism: The use of subtle and nonoffensive words
to conceal or to replace the offensive words in a statement.
Example: "We're teaching our toddler how to go potty,"
Bob said. The use of the word potty is euphemism.

8. Hyperbole: An overstatement; the use of exaggerated

terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect.
Example: I have a ton of homework to do when I get
home. I need to go home now.
9. Irony: It is a statement or situation where the
meaning is contradicted by the appearance or showing
the concept. The use of words to convey the opposite of
their literal meaning is the highlight of irony.
Example: Thalia received a very high grade in her quiz
resulting that her mother got mad.

10. Litotes: An understatement in which an affirmative

is expressed by opposing its counterpart.
Example: A million pesos is no small chunk of change.
11. Metaphor: An implied comparison between two
dissimilar things that have something in common.
Example: "All the world's a stage.” of As You Like It

12. Metonymy: A word or phrase is substituted for

another with which it is closely associated; Linking
words that are related to the word to be replaced.
Example: The use of the word vow instead of wedding,
the pen stands for "the written word.
13. Onomatopoeia: The use of words that imitate
the sounds associated with the objects or actions they
refer to.
Example: The clap of thunder went bang and scared
my poor dog.

14. Oxymoron: It is the combination of

contradictory or incongruous words such as cruel
kindness;
Example: “bitter sweet”
15. Paradox: a statement or proposition that, despite sound
(or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises,
leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically
unacceptable, or self-contradictory.
Example: "This is the beginning of the end," said Eeyore,
always the pessimist.

16. Personification: The utilization of inanimate objects or

abstraction to associate with human qualities or abilities.
Example: The leaves of the Fire tree are dancing with the
wind during dry season in our country.
17. Simile: The comparison between two
fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain
qualities in common using like or as.
Example: Michael was white as a sheet after he
walked out of the horror movie.

18. Synecdoche: A figure of speech in which a part

is used to represent the whole.
Example: Mark is asking for the hand of our
daughter.