Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region III Central Luzon
Division of Mabalacat City
BICAL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Bical, Mabalacat City (P)

Name: _________________________ Grade & Section: ______________

CREATIVE WRITING
QUARTER 3, MODULE 3
Identify and Write Compositions Exploring the Various Elements, Techniques, and
Literary Devices in Various Modes of Fiction
Learning Competency
Identify and write compositions exploring the various elements, techniques,
and literary devices in various modes of fiction

Learning Objectives
At the end of the module, you should be able to:
1. Identify the various elements, techniques, and literary devices in a work of fiction (Cognitive)
2. Read with comprehension sample works of fiction (Psychomotor)
3. Write a brief story incorporating elements, techniques and literary devices of
fiction (Psychomotor)
4. Distinguish positive traits a person should possess to succeed in life (Affective)

WHAT IS IT

Fiction is make-believe, invented stories. They may be short stories, fables, vignettes, plays,
novellas, or novels. Although writers may base a character on people they have met in real
life, the characters and the experiences that the character faces in the story are not real.
(Source: (Linda Frances Lein, n.d.))

Literary subgenres under fiction include Fantasy, Folklore, Mystery, Historical Fiction, Realistic
Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction and Thriller.

Elements of Fiction

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Activities:
I. Direction: Identify the elements of fiction defined by the statements below.
Write your answers in a piece of paper.

__________________________ 1. This refers to the persons, animals, plants, inanimate

objects that possess life and give life to the story.
__________________________ 2. This refers to the angle of narration; it indicates “who
is the narrator” and “how is the narration done”.
__________________________ 3. This refers to the series of events or action that
comprise a story.
__________________________ 4. This refers to the time and place in which events of a
narrative take place.
__________________________ 5. This refers to a literature in the form of prose that
describes imaginary events and people.
__________________________ 6. This is the idea or concept of the author often referred
to as the message of the story.
__________________________ 7. This is the initial part of the plot in which the setting
and the characters are introduced.
__________________________ 8. This is the part of the plot in which the conflict
develops.
__________________________ 9. This is the highest point of the story during which the
readers know how the conflict will be resolved.
__________________________ 10. This refers to the last part of the plot which gives the
story some finality.

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 II. Direction: Identify which among the list below are works of fiction and
nonfiction by writing them inside the boxes where they belong.

o A letter to Santa Clause

o The Hunger Games book trilogy
o A web page telling you about the weather
o A restaurant menu
o A book of fables
o An advertisement in the newspaper
o A travel brochure
o Harry Potter books
o A fairy tale
o A myth about Orpheus and Eurydice

III. Read and comprehend the Japanese folktale entitled “The Burning of the Rice
Field”.
The Burning of the Rice Field
A Japanese Folktale

Once there was a good old man who lived up on a mountain, far away in Japan. All round
his little house the mountain was flat, and the ground was rich; and there were the rice
fields of all the people who lived in the village at the mountain’s foot. Mornings and
evenings, the old man and his little grandson, who lived with him, used to look far down on
the people at work in the village, and watch the blue sea which lay all-round the land, so
close that there was no room for fields below, only for houses. The little boy loved the rice
fields, dearly, for he knew that all the good food for all the people came from them; and he
often helped his grandfather to watch over them One day, the grandfather was standing
alone, before his house, looking far down at the people, and out at the sea, when,
suddenly, he saw something very strange far off where the sea and sky meet. Something
like a great cloud was rising there, as if the sea were lifting itself high into the sky. The old
man put his hands to his eyes and looked again, hard as his old sight could. Then he
turned and ran to the house. “Yone, Yone!” he cried, “bring a brand from the hearth!”
The little grandson could not imagine what his grandfather wanted with fire, but he always
obeyed, so he ran quickly and brought the brand. The old man already had one and was
running for the rice fields. Yone ran after. But what was his horror to see his grandfather
thrust his burning brand into the ripe dry rice, where it stood. “Oh, Grandfather,
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Grandfather!” screamed the little boy, “what are you doing?” “Quick, set fire! Thrust
your brand in!” said the grandfather. Yone thought his dear grandfather had lost his mind,
and he began to sob; but a little Japanese boy always obeys, so though he sobbed, he
thrust his torch in, and the sharp flame ran up the dry stalks, red and yellow. In an instant,
the field was ablaze, and thick black smoke began to pour up, on the mountain side. It rose
like a cloud, black and fierce, and in no time the people below saw that their precious rice
fields were on fire. Ah, how they ran! Men, women, and children climbed the mountain,
running as fast as they could to save the rice; not one soul stayed behind. And when they
came to the mountain top, and saw the beautiful rice-crop all in flames, beyond help, they
cried bitterly, “Who has done this thing? How did it happen?” “I set fire,” said the old
man, very solemnly; and the little grandson sobbed, “Grandfather set fire.” But when they
came fiercely round the old man, with “Why? Why?” he only turned and pointed to the
sea. “Look!” he said. They all turned and looked. And there, where the blue sea had lain,
so calm, a mighty wall of water, reaching from earth to sky, was rolling in. No one could
scream, so terrible was the sight. The wall of water rolled in on the land, passed quite over
the place where the village had been, and broke, with an awful sound, on the mountain
side. One wave more, and still one more, came; and then all was water, as far as they
could look, below; the village where they had been was under the sea. But the people were
all safe. And when they saw what the old man had done, they honoured him above all men
for the quick wit which had saved them all from the tidal wave.

Source: (Stories from Around the World, n.d.)

Direction: Using the burger diagram, identify the elements of fiction in the Japanese
folktale “The Burning of the Rice Field”.

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