Academia de San Lorenzo Dema-Ala Inc.: Tialo, Sto. Cristo, City of San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan

Academia de San Lorenzo Dema-ala Inc.
Tialo, Sto. Cristo, City of San Jose del Monte, Bulacan
LESSON #2
Subject: Creative Writing
Name: ________________________________________
Teacher: Mrs. Mary Grace A. Castellon
LEARNING CONTENT: The Creative in Creative Writing

REFERENCE/S: DIWA Senior High School Series, internet
LEARNING TARGET
1.1. Differentiate imaginative writing from other forms of writing
1.2. Choose creative ideas from my personal experiences, and apply them in my own writing.
1.3. Read all sorts of literature as a writer conscious of the craft.
LEARNING CONCEPT
I. Figurative Language
- also called as figure of speech or rhetorical devices. It gives new meaning to ordinary words.
Writers do not have a language of their own. They take everyday words and put them together
in new ways to create vivid word pictures. Figurative language then, is not meant to be taken
literally.
Many figure of speech and rhetorical devices lend themselves to classification. The figures of speech
that logically go well together are based on:
1. RESEMBLENCE
a. Simile – is a stated comparison between two things that are actually unlike but have
something in common. A simile is easy to recognize because it is introduced by the words
like, as, resemble or similar to.
e.g.
1. She is quiet as a mouse.

2. ...Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky.
b. Metaphor – makes a direct comparison of two unlike things that have something in
common. A metaphor does not include the words like, as, resemble, or similar to.
e.g.
1. “Even at night-time, Mama is a sunrise.” – Evelyn Tooley Hunt

2. Stars are great drops of golden dew.
3. The planet is your playground.
4. The Lord is my shepherd.
c. Personification – is a figure of speech that gives human qualities to an object, an animal
or an idea. It enables the reader to see ordinary things in a new and interesting way.
e.g.
1. The Sun puts a rainbow scarf about Rain’s shoulders when they go out together.
2. Lightning danced across the sky.
3. The wind howled in the night.
d. Apostrophe – addresses personified objects as real persons, the absent as if they were
present, and the dead as if they were alive or present.
e.g.
1. “Farewell, my beloved Philippines, the sorrow of my sorrows.”

2. Oh, Moon! You have seen everything!
3. Twinkle, twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are.
e. Allusion – is a reference in a work of literature to another work of literature, or to a well-

known person, place or event outside of literature.
e.g.
1. Rhonel is the Adonis of his class. (mythological)

2. Some call Marcos a modern day Hitler. (historical)
3. You don’t have to be Albert Einstein to understand the poetry. (historical)
4. Their love story is like Romeo and Juliet’s.
5. Chocolates are my Achilles’ heel.
2. EMPHASIS
a. Hyperbole – is a figure of speech that exaggerates an idea so vividly that the reader has
an instant picture.
e.g.
1. Is this the face that launched a thousand ships? (Helen of Troy)

2. I’ve told you to clean your room a million of times!
3. I am so hungry that I could eat a whole zebra!
4. He’s as skinny as a toothpick.
b. Repetition – is repeating words, phrases, or whole constructions in order to intensify

feeling or meaning.
e.g.
“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never yield to force.” –Churchill
3. PARALLELISM AND/OR CONTRAST
a. Irony – is the general name given to literary techniques that involve differences between
appearance and reality, expectation and result, meaning and intention.
e.g.
1. An old man turned ninety-eight

He won the lottery and died the next day...
2. It's a death row pardon two minutes too late.
b. Oxymoron – is the combination of two mutually contradictory words in case where the
contradiction is apparent only, the two ideas being realized.
e.g.
1. James Bond is a well-known secret agent.

2. Parting is such sweet sorrow.
3. This is my original copy.
4. “She’s here, act naturally.
4.SOUND EFFECTS
a. Alliteration – is a repetition of consonant sounds. It is an important tool for poets. It gives
a musical quality and a rhythm to a poem.
e.g.
1. There once was a witch of Willowby Wood, and a weird wild witch was she.
2. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
b.Assonance – refers to the occurrence, in the words that are close together, of the same
vowel sound.
e.g.
1. Double, double toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
c. Onomatopoeia – is the use of words to imitate sounds.
e.g.
 Machine noises—honk, beep, vroom, clang, zap, boing

 Animal names—cuckoo, whip-poor-will, whooping crane, chickadee
 Impact sounds—boom, crash, whack, thump, bang
 Sounds of the voice—shush, giggle, growl, whine, murmur, blurt, whisper, hiss
 Nature sounds—splash, drip, spray, whoosh, buzz, rustle
d. Euphemism – is the use of a pleasant or pale-expression instead of an unpleasant, harsh
or depressing one.
e.g.
1. Senior citizen for old people

2. passed away for dead
5.SUBSTITUTION
a. Synecdoche – is a type of metonymy in which a significant part is used to represent the
whole.
e.g.
1. It’s useless to preach to empty stomachs.

2. Life is hard when you have eight hungry mouths to feed.
6.ARRANGEMENT OF WORDS
a. Climax – is the arrangement of a series of words, phrases, clauses, or sentences in an

ascending order of importance.
e.g.
1. I came. I saw. I conquered.
2. We dared. We fought. We triumphed.
b. Anti-climax – is abruptly ending a climax build-up with an insignificant item.
e.g.
1. I die. I fail. I faint
Mrs. Mary Grace A. Castellon

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LEARNING CONTENT: The Creative in Creative Writing

1. She is quiet as a mouse.

1. “Even at night-time, Mama is a sunrise.” – Evelyn Tooley Hunt

1. “Farewell, my beloved Philippines, the sorrow of my sorrows.”

e. Allusion – is a reference in a work of literature to another work of literature, or to a well-

1. Rhonel is the Adonis of his class. (mythological)

1. Is this the face that launched a thousand ships? (Helen of Troy)

b. Repetition – is repeating words, phrases, or whole constructions in order to intensify

1. An old man turned ninety-eight

2. It's a death row pardon two minutes too late.

1. James Bond is a well-known secret agent.

c. Onomatopoeia – is the use of words to imitate sounds.

 Machine noises—honk, beep, vroom, clang, zap, boing

1. Senior citizen for old people

1. It’s useless to preach to empty stomachs.

a. Climax – is the arrangement of a series of words, phrases, clauses, or sentences in an

b. Anti-climax – is abruptly ending a climax build-up with an insignificant item.

Mrs. Mary Grace A. Castellon

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