CREATIVE WRITING
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IMAGERY AND FIGURATIVE LANGUAGES
USE IMAGERY, FIGURES OF SPEECH, AND SPECIFIC
EXPERIENCES TO EVOKE MEANINGFUL RESPONSES FROM
READERS
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Creative Writing
Quarter 1 – Module 1
Imaging and the Use of Imagery
Department of Education • Republic of the Philippines
Creative Writing- Grade 12
Alternative Delivery Mode
Quarter 1 – Module 1: Imaging and the Use of Imagery
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Creative Writing
Quarter 1 – Module 1
Imaging and the Use of Imagery
Department of Education • Republic of the Philippines
Introductory Message
Welcome to the world of Creative Writing for Grade 12 Alternative Delivery Mode
(ADM) Module on understanding imagery, diction, figures of speech, and variations
on language. This module which was collaboratively designed by the Schools
Division of San Jose City will help guide both the facilitator in teaching the essential
lessons in this subject and the learner to enhance their skills in writing.
For the Facilitator:
As a facilitator, you are expected to properly guide the learner in answering the
different activities and tests in this module. The learner will find it easier and fun to
learn in writing on his/her own if they will be acquainted with the lessons and the
skills that need to be enhanced. This module is user-friendly and will fit the needs
of the learner when it comes to writing creatively. Do not forget to always remind
the learner to take good care of this module and to use separate sheets in
answering the pre-test, self-check exercises, and post-test.
For the Learner:
This module is crafted and designed for you that contains proper language and
content which will be easily understood by senior high school learners like you.
This contains a lesson that will enhance your skills in writing as well as will
challenge your creativity especially in thinking critically in applying imagery and
figures of speech. Before you will reach the discussion of the lesson, different tasks
need to be answered first. You must read carefully every direction and detail from
this module. If there are confusions, you may ask your facilitator. Always use a
separate sheet of paper in answering the exercises and assessments. Bear in mind
also that taking care of this module means showing respect for government
property.
What I Need to Know
This module will guide you to understand how the use of imagery and
figurative languages add colors to writing. Learning to use images, diction, figures
of speech as a technique in writing your piece is like an important ingredient that
added a little flavor which will make your composition tastier and meaningful to
read.
Writing is one of the basic skills you should learn. But in writing creatively,
you should also master the skills in applying techniques to achieve beauty and
richness in your work especially in fiction and even in non-fiction.
At the end of this module, you are expected to:
1. Single out imagery and figurative language used;
2. Use imagery, and figures of speech in a paragraph; and
3. Write a short poem using imagery and figurative languages
Understand imagery, figures of speech, and variations on language.
Learning Objectives:
Use imagery, diction, figures of speech, and specific experiences to evoke meaningful
responses from readers.
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What I Know
A. Read the given questions and write the letter of the correct answer. Write
your answer in your activity notebook.
1. Which of the following literary devices allows the author to use words and
phrases to create mental images for the readers?
A. allusion
B. imagery
C. anecdote
D. paradox
2. Which sensory perception refers to the sense of smell?
A. auditory
B. tactile
C. olfactory
D. gustatory
3. Which sensory image refers to something that depicts temperature?
A. gustatory
B. erotic
C. tactile
D. thermal
4. Which sensory image suggests sensations and feelings?
A. erotic
B. tactile
C. thermal
D. visual
5. Which sensory perception is used in the given line below?
The beacons of moonlight bathed the room in ethereal light.
A. thermal
B. tactile
C. visual
D. auditory
B. Identify the figure of speech used in the following lines/sentences.
6. My sister will climb sycamore trees to see Piolo Pascual.
A. irony
B. apostrophe
C. hyperbole
D. personification
7. The sun stood early for a new day.
A. irony
B. apostrophe
C. hyperbole
D. personification
8. Hope, memories, tears, hear ye, hear ye.
A. apostrophe
B. synecdoche
C. hyperbole D. personification
9. Oh, time, how swift thee flies!
A. apostrophe
B. synecdoche
C. hyperbole D. personification
10. We counted fifty heads in the party last night.
A. apostrophe
B. synecdoche
C. hyperbole D. personification
Did you get it all correctly? If you did, then let us find
out more about imagery.
Lesson
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Imaging and the Use of
Imagery
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All things with its variation come through your five senses. If you are
sitting in your living room at this moment, you might see a tv, set of coffee
table, perhaps a poster on a wall, a fluorescent light; you might hear a
stereo, voices of people in the house, cars, tricycles, a dog barking; you feel
the pressure in your body when you carry something, a book in your hand,
even the subtle feel of anything in your body; you might smell the odor of a
meal cooked, freshly washed clothes and if your window is open the scent of
spring in your yard; and you taste the sweet of candies or chocolates or the
water or juice that you’ve been drinking. You really discover the world
around and it is because of your senses.
A writer who presents what can be seen, heard, touched, smelled, or tasted,
as well as what can be felt inside (for instance, hunger, pain, joy) creates
images – collectively imagery.
What’s In?
Guessing Poem Riddles
Directions: Carefully read the poem below. Then guess what it describes.
Write your answer in your activity notebook.
LIVING TENDERLY
My body a rounded stone
With a pattern of smooth seams.
My head a short snake,
My legs come out of their sleeves
or shrink within,
and so, does my chin.
My eyelids are quick clamps.
My back is my roof.
I am always at home.
I travel where my house walks.
I am a smooth stone.
I float within the lake
or rest in the dust.
My flesh lives tenderly
inside its bone.
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What’s New
If you are an imaginative literature writer, your goal is to express your
experiences based on what you see, hear, feel, and let your readers feel
the same way too. This is far from just imparting knowledge or facts. To
achieve this goal in letting your reader participate in your world too, you
must communicate well using your different senses.
In creative writing, you will be making a lot of descriptions. These
descriptive details are necessary to make your writing clear because they
help generate a specific mood or emotion about people, places, and
circumstances. They are called images and sensory impressions or
symbols. The use of imagery appeals to how you see, hear, smell, taste,
touch; and feel the things that you are writing about. If you are writing
from memory, these images can also help readers imagine or relate to
some of your specific experiences.
ACTIVITY 1
UNDERSTANDING IMAGERY
Writers of both poetry and prose rely on images to re-create experience
in such a way that readers can share that experience. In the following passage,
an old woman lies ill, waiting for an ambulance to take her to the hospital.
Direction: Read the passage and answer the questions that follow. Write your
answer in your activity notebook.
It was such a relief to drift, finally. Why had she spent so long learning
how? The traffic sounds – horns and bells and rags of music – flowed around the
voices in her room. She kept mislaying her place in time, but it made no difference;
all she remembered was equally pleasant. She remembered the feel of wind on
summer nights – how it billows through the house and wafts the curtains and
smells of tar and roses. How a sleeping baby weighs so heavily on your shoulder,
like ripe fruit. What privacy it is to walk in the rain beneath the drip and crackle of
your own umbrella. She remembered a country auction she’d attended forty years
ago, where they’d offered up an antique brass bed complete with all its
bedclothes- sheets and blankets, pillow in a linen case embroidered with forgetme-nots. Two men wheeled it into the platform, and its ruffled coverlet stirred like
a young girl’s petticoats. Behind her eyelids, Pearl Tull climbed ran toward her,
laughing, across the sunlit sand.
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Anne Tyler
1. What images of sight does the narrator present? Are these images general
or specific? (Does she, for example, simply mention a bed or does she add
From
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
words that help you to visualize that
bed?)
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2. What images of sound does she mention?
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3. Which of the five senses are not referred to in this short passage?
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4. What images reinforce the idea of drifting?
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How do you find the activity? If you got it all
correctly, then you really read with comprehension.
Now, you can move to the next level of reading
with understanding. Try this one again!
ACTIVITY 2
UNDERSTANDING FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
Direction: Read each quotation carefully and then answer the questions or
complete the statements that follow. Write the letter of the correct answer on
your activity notebook.
A. Sebio laughed. He was again his likeable self. He tried to catch the outstretched
hand, but like lightning it was withdrawn, and when he stood up the girl was
gone. He sat down again.
-Arturo B. Rotor, “Dahong-Palay”
1. What are compared in the above paragraph?
a. Sebio and the girl
c. The hand and lightning
b. The girl and lightning
d. Sebio and lightning
2. Which of the following lines is a simile?
a. His likeable self
b. like lightning
c. His outstretched hand's hand
d. The girl liked Sebio
3. Why was the hand compared to lightning?
a. It was burning
c. It was easy to catch
b. It was hot.
d. It vanished fast.
B. On that trip to the old village, Grandfather took me along. He also took
my cousins Juanito, his namesake and favorite among his
grandchildren, and Alejo, who, though somewhat doltish, was big for his
age and strong as a horse. We made a curious crew.
-Amante E. Bigornia, “Grandfather”
4. Which of the following phrases best describes Alejo?
a. Like an old villager
c. Like Grandfather’s favorite
b. Like a horse
d. Like my cousin Juanito
5. What figure of speech does the sentence “Alejo is as strong as a horse”
exemplify?
a. Metaphor b. Personification
c. Symbol
d. Simile
C. He saw the heat waves in the glare
As devils on the stage afire,
Reproached the sky and saw the rain
As diablos dancing in the mire.
-Josue Rem. Siat, “Mang Teban And Weather”
6. What are compared in the first two lines?
a. Heat and wave
c. Glare and devils
b. Stage and fire
d. Heatwaves and devils
7. In the last two lines, devils are like ________
a. Fire
b. Skies
c. Raindrops
d. Mire
D. First, a poem must be magical
Then musical as a seagull.
It must be a brightness moving
And hold secret a bird’s flowering.
must be slender as a bell,
And it must hold fire as well.
must have the wisdom of bows
And it must kneel like a rose.
-Jose Garcia Villa, “Sonnet 1”
8. Which of these phrases in Villa’s poem makes a comparison?
a. Must have the wisdom
c. Must hold fire as well
b. Must be musical as a seagull
d. Must like to hover
9. Which of the following lines is a simile?
a. First, a poem must be magical.
c. It must like to hover
b. Then musical as a seagull
d. It must hold fire as well.
10. Villa does not compare a poem to ________________
a. A bell
b. A bird
c. A flower
d. A tree
What is it
▪ Visual
is a picture in words; something that is concrete and can be seen.
Broken hulahoops, hollow blocks, and tires are crowded atop to thatched roof.
▪ Auditory
is something that you can hear through your mind’s ears.
The pattering of the rain is heard against the windowpane.
The screeching wheels of reckless taxi cabs and vehicles plagued my ears.
▪ Olfactory
is something that you can smell through your mind’s nose.
The aroma of freshly brewed Colombian coffee wafted into the entire room.
The stench of body odor in a crowded LRT train seeped through the fabric of
my shirt.
▪ Gustatory
is something that you can taste through your mind’s tongue.
Mouth-watering ripe mangoes, tender melons, and luscious cherries are
served on a tray.
I endured the pungent taste of unripe bananas.
▪ Tactile
is something that you can touch through your mind’s skin.
The soft velvety feel of silk and satin caressed my skin.
His corned working hands were brought out by years of hard work and toil.
▪ Thermal
is something that depicts temperature.
The scorching heat of a midday tropical sun made my eyes squint.
A sudden gush of December wind breezed against my face, reminding me
of Christmas.
▪ Erotic
is something that suggests sensation and feeling.
His eyes follow her wherever she goes, like a blind servant following his
omnipresent master.
I shuddered and felt a tingling sensation as his warm breath heaved
through my nape.
Figurative language is used to give color and clarity of meaning to the usual
expression of ideas. Here are some commonly used figures of speech.
1. Simile – is a direct comparison of unlike objects using the words
“like” or “as”.
Examples: You are as cute as this teddy bear.
Her voice is like Moira.
2. Metaphor – is an implied comparison between unlike objects. The
statement is direct, therefore, the resemblance of the objects has
to be imagined or mentally associated by the reader
Examples: In her fantasies, she is a reed bending gracefully to the
breeze.
I am Santa Claus to my grandchildren.
3. Metonymy – is a substitution of an object or idea that is closely
related to it. It is based on association such as author for his works,
the cause for the effect, etc.
Examples: Malacañang granted permits to the demonstrators.
The Eagles captured the basketball championship.
We watch Spielberg today.
4. Synecdoche – is a substitution usually of a part fort he whole and
sometimes of the whole for the part.
Examples: Let’s count heads.
There are thirty roofs in this village.
5. Personification – is a figure of speech that endows human
characteristics or qualities to inanimate things or abstract ideas.
Examples: The sunlight zigzagged across the picnic table.
The trees swayed gracefully.
6. Apostrophe – addresses personified objects as real persons, the
absent as if they were present, and the dead as if they were alive.
Examples: “farewell my beloved Philippines, the sorrow of my sorrows”.
“Death, be not proud, though some have called thee…”
7. Hyperbole – is a deliberate exaggeration to emphasize a point or
to create humor.
Examples: I crossed three mountains to come and see you.
My friend is head over heels in love with Sam Milby.
8. Irony – is a name given to literary techniques that involve
differences or contradictory.
Examples: “You look wonderful with your uncombed hair and unwashed
face.”
“ Oh, what a great rain for the campfire tonight.”
What's More
ENRICHMENT ACTIVITY
Reinforcing Creativity
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Hello there! Congratulations for completing the first two tasks. This time get
yourself ready for another set of activities.
Activity 1
Direction: Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.
Write your answer in your activity notebook.
Crossroads
Anonymous
Sometimes when I look back to all the “cold have been” in my life, I often wonder:
Did I make the right choice?
Did I miss a road sign?
Am I on the right track?
Crossroads… they happen all the time-saying goodbye to some, choosing only one.
Letting go… holding on… setting for now, but facing what must come
Yes, in our lives we all reach a crossroad sometime.
We make painful decisions and take some risks as we pursue our dreams.
But I should not stay at the crossroads too long.
Even the birds have to leave their nests sometimes and learn how to fly.
Life’s road is long and rough and there are stretches when I have to go it all
alone, and should I meet the cross at the road, I am consoled.
Yes, more often than not, the road less traveled will surely bring home.
I face the light and the shadow falls behind me free.
The bitter pays of parting will give birth to another moment called growing.
So I grow…until it’s time for me to move on… and face the crossroads again,
knowing that God Loves ME.
I am strong at the crossroads.
I welcome and embrace the cross on the road.
For I know, my Lord is at the cross at the road, at all my crossroads.
1. We make painful decisions and take some risks as we pursue our dreams.
a. solution
b. road
c. danger
d. fight
2. Life’s road is long and rough and there are stretches when I have to go it
all alone.
a. elongated road
b. problems
c. bed
d. spaces
3. Crossroads…they happen the entire time- saying goodbye to some,
choosing only one.
a. crucifix
c. roads of different directions
b. decision-making points
d. cross
4. I welcome and embrace the cross at the road.
a. hold in one’s arms
c. go through
b. examine
d. trace
5. And should I meet the cross on the road, I am consoled.
a. Contented
b. happy
c. comforted d. delighted
Assessment 1
Draw a road map of your life. Place markers or
symbolisms such as the cross for faith, rocks
for problems, and bells for a wedding. Be able
to explain them. Observe the use of imagery
and figures of speech. Write your answer in
your activity notebook.
Road Map of My Life
Explanation:
Enrichment Activities
➢ What’s More
-Guided/Controlled Practice
-Guided/Controlled Assessment
-Independent Practice
-Independent Assessment
What I Have Learned
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You did well again in the activities! You shared
wonderful ideas. Now, let us see if you really
learned something about imagery and if you
understand well the figures of speech.
Direction: Give your insights about the use of imagery and figures of
speech in writing. Write your answer in your activity notebook.
1. Using imagery in writing _________________________________________
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2. Diction refers to _________________________________________________
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3. Figurative languages in writing ___________________________________
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What I Can Do
Direction: Write a two-paragraph essay that employs imagery. You may
choose a topic of your own. Write your answer in your activity notebook.
10.
APPLICATION
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➢ What I Can Do
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-An activity that shall transfer the
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skills/knowledge gained or learned into
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real-life concerns/situations
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POST ASSESSMENT
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Assessment
Direction: Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow. Write
your answer in your activity notebook.
I Got Flowers Today
By Soki Ballesteros
I got flowers today
It wasn’t my birthday or any other special day,
We had our first argument last night
And he said a lot of cruel things that really hurt me
I know he is sorry and didn’t mean the things he said
Because he sent me flowers today.
I got flowers today
It wasn’t our anniversary or any other special day
Last night he threw me into the wall and started to choke me
It seemed like a nightmare; I couldn’t believe it was real
I woke up this morning sore and bruised all over
I know he must be sorry
Because he sent me flowers today.
I got flowers today
It wasn’t Mother’s Day or any other special day
Last night he beat me up again
And it was so much worse than all other times
If I leave him, what will I do?
How will I take care of my kids?
What about money?
I’m afraid of him and scared to leave
But I know he must be sorry
Because he sent me flowers today
I got flowers today
Today was a very special day!
It was the day of my FUNERAL!
Last night, he finally killed me, he beat me to death
If I only have gathered enough courage and strength to leave him
I would not have gotten flowers today….
A. Match the words in column A with their meanings in column B. Write the letter
of your choice in your activity notebook.
Column A
_____ 1. Argument
_____ 2. Bruise
_____ 3. Choke
_____ 4. Nightmare
_____ 5. Funeral
Column B
a. terrifying dream
b. contusion
c. interment
d. quarrel
e. strangle
B. Choose the letter of your answer and write your answer in your activity
notebook.
1. Which word or words best describe the woman?
a. a lover of flowers
c. martyr
b. worried about her family
d. forgiving
2. What is the tone of the poem?
a. sad
b. happy
c. tragic
d. lonely
3. What message does the writer want to express?
a. receiving flowers
b. the plight of battered wives with their husbands
c. flowers are important on Mothers’ day
d. having arguments at home
4. What is the author’s purpose
a. to inform
b. to persuade
c. to communicate
d. to interfere
5. What feeling did the author bring out?
a. Love
b. anger
c. hatred
d. happiness
C. Answer the following questions and write your answer in your activity
notebook.
1. Give your comment about the author with his life, love, and personality
among others.
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2. If you were the woman, would you do the same? Explain.
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3. What kind of husband was he?
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4. Explain the line: “If I only have gathered enough courage and strength to
leave him, I would not have gotten flowers today”.
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5. If you were a friend of the woman, what advice would you give her?
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D. What is an ideal relationship for you? Illustrate your idea of an ideal
relationship with a friend or with a relative through drawing. Be able to
discuss the symbols or objects you used in your drawing through a poem.
Use any of the imagery and figures of speech to express feelings. Write
your answer in your activity notebook.
My Idea of an Ideal Relationship
(symbol/object)
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(Title of your poem)
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Additional Activities
Compose a blog entry narrating a childhood incident when you felt happy
or
embarrassed.
Use imagery and figures of speech. Write your answer in your
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activity notebook.
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2.
3.
4.
A.
What I Can Do
Activity 1
1. C
2. B
3. B
4. C
5. C
Assessment 1
Answers may vary.
Assessment
A. 1. D
2. b
3. e
4. a
5. c
B. Answers may vary
What’s More
Answer may vary
Additional Activities
Answer may vary
What’s New
Activity 1 Understanding Imagery
A. Images of sight – ripe fruit, rain beneath the
drip, antique brass bed, bedclothes, sheets and
blankets, pillow in a linen case embroidered with
forget-me-nots, sunlit sand.
B. answer may vary
Images of sound – traffic sounds, horns and bells
and rags of music, wind billows through the house
Gustatory
moving away/growing apart
Activity 2 Understanding Figurative Language
C.
1. C
2. B
3. D
6. d
7. a
D.
B.
What I know
1. B
2. C
3. D
4. A
5. C
6. C
7. D
8. A
9. A/D
10. B
What’s In
Guessing Poem Riddles
Answer: turtle
8. b
9. b
10. d
4. b
5. d
Answer Key
References
Aguila, A.A. et. Al (2017). Wording the World: The Art of Creative Writing. C & E
Publishing, Inc.
Farrell, E. et. Al (1991). Patterns in Literature. Scott, Foresman and Company.
Galindo, E. et Al. English 4: a Worktext
Villamin, A. (2002). Skill Builders for Efficient Reading 7. Phoenix Publication.
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