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Creative Writing
Quarter 1 Lesson 1
Imagery, Diction, Figures of Speech,
and specific experiences to evoke
meaningful responses
After going through this lesson, you are
expected to:
1. use imagery, diction, figures of speech, and specific
experiences to evoke meaningful responses from
readers
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?
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 utilize to draw in a reader's brain on
numerous levels. This investigates the five human
detects: sight, sound, taste, contact, and smell.
1. 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.
Her phone signaled, immediately setting her
teeth on edge. She looked at the broken
screen, saw his name, and slapped the phone
back down on her desk. Armani stretched
across her couch, legs twitching excitedly, and
he knew he must be dreaming of the kittens he
tries to capture every morning when he is at
the dirty kitchen.
2. 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.
3. AUDITORY IMAGERY engages the
sense of hearing. Sound devices such as
onomatopoeia and alliteration can help
create sounds in writing.
4. 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.
5. 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
engagesthe 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.
Among the sensory imagery, which
was is easy to use in writing?
Which one is hard for you to use?
What could be the barrier in using
sensory imageries well in writing?
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.
In composing a fiction, the language a
creator utilizes bolsters the fundamental
story components, such as setting. Style
sets up when and where a story is set by
utilizing language local to that time and
spots.
1. In what references or reading
materials do you see Formal Diction?
2. What about the informal, colloquial
and slang?
3. What do you think is the proper
diction in creative writing? Will there be
an impact to writing?
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.
Figurative language is often
associated with literature and with
poetry in particular. Whether we're
conscious of it or not, we use
figures of speech every day in our
own writing and conversations.
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.
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.
Chiasmus is a figure of speech in which the
grammar of one phrase is inverted in the following
phrase, such that two key concepts from the original
phrase reappear in the second phrase in inverted
order.
She has all my love; my heart belongs to her.
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. Understatement: A figure of speech
employed by writers or speakers to
intentionally make a situation seem less
important than it really is.
Example: You win 10 million pesos in a lottery.
Questions: Which of the
following figures of speech are
familiar to you?
Which from them is mostly used
in literary pieces? Can you
look/give for some examples?

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