The Language of Creative

Writing
Presented by:
RODOLFO B. LUCERO JR.
Most Essential Learning Competency:
• Use figurative language to evoke meaningful response from
readers.
• Objectives:
• At the end of the module, the learners should be able to:
• 1. Distinguish the difference between literal and figurative
language;
• 2. Identify the different kinds of figurative language; and
• 3. Use figures of speech in creative work.
LET’S SHOW WHAT WE KNOW!
•DIRECTIONS: Read the following
statement and answer the question
that follows or complete the
statement by choosing an answer
from the given choices (Stanich
2017).
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1. A figure of speech is __________.
A. a familiar expression
B. something only writers use
C. what the author literally means
D. a non-literal way of saying something
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2. Which of the following statements about Figure of
Speech is TRUE?
A. Figure of Speech is the use of literal language in
writing.
B. Figure of Speech is only used in descriptions.
C. Figure of Speech requires readers to interpret the
text beyond its literal meaning.
D. Figure of Speech is not needed in creative writing.
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3. A figure of speech has to be interpreted
by the reader and the listener.
A. True
B. has to be interpreted by the reader only
C. has to be interpreted by the listener only
D. does not have to be interpreted by the
reader nor the listener.
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4. The two figures of speech that
involve comparison are:
A. Simile and Metaphor
B. Hyperbole and Simile
C. Alliteration and Metaphor
D. Personification and Idiom
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5. The Figure of Speech in which the
author makes an obvious exaggeration.
A. Idiom
B. Simile
C. Hyperbole
D. Alliteration
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6. The word “like” and “as” typically
appears in a/n ____________.
a. idiom
b. simile
c. hyperbole
d. metaphor
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7. Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. It is important to know the type of figurative
language used to interpret the meaning correctly.
B. Interpreting the meaning of a figure of speech is not
necessary for literary reading.
C. Figures of speech do not enhance a literary work.
D. Figures of speech should only be used for complex
topics in writing.
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8. Which of the following statements is FALSE?
A. When words are literal, they mean exactly what they
say.
B. Figures of speech evoke more emotions from the
readers.
C. The use of figures of speech makes creative writing
an art.
D. Figures of speech hamper the reader’s
understanding of the literary text.
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9. What is the figure of speech in which
nonhuman or nonliving things are spoken
about as if they were human?
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Hyperbole
D. Personification
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10. “Education is our passport to the future, and
tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it
today.” What figure of speech is used in the
highlighted part of the statement?
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Alliteration
D. Personification
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11. “Earth is so kind, that just tickles her with a
hoe and she laughs with a harvest.” Which figure
of speech is used in the given example?
A. Simile
B. Hyperbole
C. Alliteration
D. Personification
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12. “Resentment is like drinking poison and
waiting for it to kill your enemy.” What type
of figure of speech is used?
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Hyperbole
D. Personification
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13. What does this quote mean? “Striving for
success without hard work is like trying to
harvest where you haven’t planted.”
A. It is important to strive for success.
B. It is wrong to work hard for success.
C. To be successful, you must first work hard.
D. You should plant crops where you plan to
harvest them.
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14. What does this quote mean? “Experience is a hard
teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson
afterward.”
A. It’s a helpful experience to have a hard teacher.
B. Experienced teachers give the lesson first and then
the test.
C. Everyone has the experience of making mistakes
both in school and in life.
D. Experience can be a difficult way to learn because
you learn from making mistakes.
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15. Your math teacher said, “You passed this
test by the skin of your teeth. Why don’t you
stay after school for some tutoring?” What
did your teacher mean?
A. You did very well.
B. You barely passed the test.
C. You failed the test miserably.
D. You failed the test, but you were close to.
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1. d 6. b 11. d
2. b 7. b 12. a
3. a 8. a 13. c
4. a 9. d 14. d
5. c 10. c 15. b
Expound This!

CREATIVE WRITING = ART

CREATIVE WRITING = ART
Creative writing is an art. It requires not
only your passion in writing, but also skills to
play with words creatively and aesthetically.
To achieve this, literary devices are used to
enhance a writing piece and fill it with life
and emotions.
CREATIVE WRITING = ART
Let’s explore the different concepts
involving figures of speech, one of the
literary devices, and how it enhances
literary works.
Choose Me!
Read the paragraphs below. Choose the letter of the
paragraph which you think is written in a creative
manner. Explain your choices. Do this on a separate
sheet of paper.
Write check (✓) if you think it is creatively written and
cross(✘) if not.
Choose Me!

A. From the definitions given, it can be gleaned

that creative writing is the most artful of all
forms of writing. It focuses on the writer’s
imagination, although the writing may be
fictional or nonfictional (Bernales 2017).
(✘)
Choose Me!

B. One benefit you can get with creative writing

is self-expression. It is an avenue where you
can express your emotions, thoughts and
dreams.

(✘)
Choose Me!
C. I love you like how I embrace the darkness
despite of my fear. I love you like how I touch
the sun, then burn. I love you like how I
willingly grip a knife, then bleed. I love you, for
you are my peace in times of chaos. And still, I
love you, for you are my chaos in times of
peace.
(✓)
Choose Me!

D. I cried a thousand tears to see him smile. I

bled to death to heal his broken heart. I
endured the pain to give him peace of mind. I
died every day to make him alive.

(✓)
Choose Me!

E. His death came about a day after his

daughter took her own life. The community
where they belonged was shocked. They all
gathered to pay their last respects to the dead
and to mourn with the living members of the
family.
(✘)
IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS

What are Idiomatic Expressions?

IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS
•Words, phrases or sentences
that have meanings different
from the literal meanings of
the words in the expression
IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS
• Anne was tickled pink by the
good news that her husband
will be vacationing from
work abroad. (made very
happy)
IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS
• Hands down, Brandon is the
best basketball player in the
company team.
(no competition)
IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS
• down in the dumps (sad,
depressed)
• under the weather (not well)
•Until the cows come home ( for
a very long time)
IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS
• rain cats and dogs (rain very
hard)
• driving me up the wall
(making someone very
annoyed)
IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS
• piece of cake ( very easy)
•pulling your leg (kidding,
joking)
•Sounds Greek (beyond
comprehension)
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• literary devices that achieve
a special effect by using
words in distinctive ways.
FIGURES OF SPEECH
- are literary devices used in literary
writing to make a literary work
more vivid and captivating. They let
the readers read between the lines
and bring more depth to the
language.
 FILL IT!
1. Her smile is as ___________ as the _____________.
2. The train travelled like ____________________.
3. Your eyes are __________ like _________________.
4. The trees ______________ with the howling wind.
5. The weather is __________ I could _________ an
egg on the sidewalk!
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Alliteration
-repetition of initial
consonant sound
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Alliteration
Ex: Don’t delay dawn’s
disarming display. Dusk
demands daylight.
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Assonance
- refers to the identity or
similarity in sound between
internal vowels in neigboring
words.
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Assonance
Ex: It beats…as it sweeps…as
it cleans!
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Consonance
- repetition of consonant
sound in the final position
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Consonance
Ex: Once you go black,
you can never go back.
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Onomatopoeia
- use of words that imitate
sounds
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Onomatopoeia
Ex: The clock’s tick-tocks
remind the old man of his
impending death.
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Anaphora
-same word or phrase is
repeated at the beginning of
successive clauses or verses.
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Anaphora
Ex: I’m not afraid to die. I’m not
afraid to live. I’m not afraid to
succeed. I’m not afraid to fall in love.
I’m not afraid to be alone. I’m just
afraid I might have to stop talking
about myself for five minutes.
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Epiphora
-What is repeated is a word
or phrase at the end of
succession of clauses or verse
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Epiphora
Ex: Fie, fie thou shamestly
thy shape, thy love, thy wit…
Which should bedeck
thy shape, thy love, thy wit.
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Anadiplosis
- the last word of a verse or
sentence is repeated at the
beginning of the next one
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Anadiplosis
Ex: Fear leads to anger. Anger
leads to hate. Hate leads to
suffering.
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Simile
- stated comparison usually
using like or as between two
fundamentally dissimilar
things that have certain
qualities in common
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Simile
Ex: On the ring, Muhammad Ali
floated like a butterfly, but he
stung like a bee.
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Metaphor
-implied comparison
between two unlike things that
actually have something in
common
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Metaphor
Ex: My heart is a lonely hunter
that hunts in a lonely hill.
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Personification
-an inanimate object or
abstraction is endowed with
human qualities or abilities
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Personification
The picture in that
magazine screamed for
attention.
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Hyperbole
- use of exaggerated terms
for the purpose of emphasis or
heightened effect
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Hyperbole
I’m so busy trying to
accomplish ten million things
at once.
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Understatement
- Deliberately makes a situation
seem less important or serious
than it is
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Understatement
Ex: (referring to a dent in the
car) It’s nothing. It’s just a
scratch.
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Metonymy
-one word or phrase is
substituted for another with
which it is closely associated
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Metonymy
(Referring to the movie
industry) Hollywood is
undeterred by the mass actions
against stereotyping organized
by the minorities.
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Synecdoche
A part is used to represent
the whole or the whole for a
part
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Synecdoche
Ex: A pair of eyes witnessed the
crime.
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Euphemism
Substitution of an inoffensive
term for one considered
offensively explicit.
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Euphemism
Ex: Most of the informal
settlers have been relocated
outside Metro Manila.
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Rhetorical Question
- Question that needs no
answer
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Rhetorical Question
Ex: Will I ever find my one true
love?
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Climax
- a series of phrases or
sentences is arranged in
ascending order of rhetorical
forcefulness
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Climax
Ex: You are always in my mind,
my heart and my soul.
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Anticlimax
- opposite of climax
Ex: He has seen the ravages of
war, he has known natural
catastrophes, he has been to
single bars.
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Oxymoron
-uses contradictory
words/terms usually side by
side with each other.
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Oxymoron
Ex: The deafening silence
echoes in the hall.
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Sarcasm
- Makes use of words that mean
the opposite of what the speaker
or writer wants to say especially
in order to insult someone, to
show irritation, or to be funny.
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Sarcasm
Nice perfume. Must you
marinate in it?
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Irony
- A statement or situation that
is contradicted by the
appearance or presentation of
the idea
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Irony
Who would expect that Bill
Gates would win a computer in
his company’s raffle draw?
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Paradox
-A statement that appears to
contradict itself.
Ex: I must be cruel to be kind.
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Apostrophe
- Addresses an inanimate
object, an abstraction or an
absent person
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Apostrophe
Ex: Moon river… wherever
you’re going, I’m going you
way.
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Prosopopoeia
-an imaginary character or an
absent person is represented as
speaking
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Prosopopoeia
Ex: From the mouth of the Most
High I came forth, and mistlike
covered the earth.
ALLUSIONS
• a brief and indirect reference
to a person, place, thing, or
idea of historical, cultural,
literary, or political
significance
ALLUSIONS
• a brief and indirect reference
to a person, place, thing, or
idea of historical, cultural,
literary, or political
significance
ALLUSIONS
• Don’t act like a Romeo in front
of her. (Romeo is a reference to
Shakespeare’s Romeo, a
passionate lover of Juliet, in
Romeo and Juliet)
ALLUSIONS
• My wife will forever be the
Ms. Universe of my life.
• The rise in poverty will
unlock the Pandora’s box of
crimes.
 William Shakespeare
While Shakespeare was regarded as the foremost
dramatist of his time, evidence indicates that both he and
his contemporaries looked to poetry, not playwriting, for
enduring fame. Shakespeare sonnets were composed
between 1593 and 1601, though not published until
1609.The Sonnets of Shakespeare, consists of 154
sonnets, all written in the form of three quatrains and a
couplet that is now recognized as Shakespearean. He
was born on April 23, 1564 in Stratford-upon Avon.
Married to Anne Hathaway and they had two daughters
(Poetry Foundation 2020).
Pre-reading Activity:

1. How do you describe summer?

2. What is so special about summer?
3. If you like someone, in what ways could you
compare him or her to a summer’s day?
Let us try to check your understanding on
simile, metaphor and personification. Copy the
poem in your notebook. Box the verse or line
that shows simile. Underline the verse of line
that shows a metaphor and highlight (use any
color of your highlighter pen) if it used
personification.
 SONNET 18
William Shakespeare And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
(Poetry Foundation 2020) And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course
Shall I compare thee to a untrimm'd;
summer’s day? But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Thou art more lovely and more Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
temperate: Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his
Rough winds do shake the shade,
darling buds of May, When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
And summer’s lease hath all too So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
short a date;
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Sometime too hot the eye of
heaven shines,
SONNET 18 by William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st inhis shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Who’s Venn? (Written Task)

•Using a Venn Diagram, how will you

compare and contrast IMAGERY and
FIGURES OF SPEECH?
LET’S APPLY! (Performance Task)
•1. Examine the posted picture on the
next slide.
•2. Describe the picture using the five
(5)imagery and at least five (5) figures
of speech.