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Task 1. THE KEY TO SUCCESS!
The following words are some of the terminologies to be discussed in this lesson. In this activity, look
for the words inside the box and try to look for its meaning afterwards. The set of words are on the left side.

Prose Y Q A Z W S E X E D
Poetry G C L P R F N D V N
Fiction E T Y R T E O P O G
Non- Fiction L H R O N Y I I H M
Sonnet
E U I S J M T I K L
Elegy
O P C E A C C S D F
G H J K I L I Q W C
Lyric
E R T F Y U F I I O
Ode
P Z N X C V B P N M
Haiku
S O N N E T E A E I
Epic
N O U I H A I K U U

Task 2. GETTING A GLIMPSE!

Most often, prose and poetry are interchanged with one another especially for those who are not into
literature. The aim of this activity sheets is for you to be more familiar about their differences and for you to
easily identify which is prose and which is poetry. Another activity is designed for you before going deep into
the discussion of prose and poetry.
Complete the analogy statement below. Identify whether it is an example of prose or poetry. Use the
given picture as clues.

1. Beowulf is an epic in English literature as _____________________ in Philippine

Literature.

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2. “Ang Talambuhay ni Jose Rizal”: __________________________ Life and Works.

3. Noli ME Tangere for Philippine Classics: ____________________ for English

Classics.

PROSE POETRY
Ex. Beowulf

Congratulations! After successfully answering literary text titles, it is now time to dig deeper into what
prose and poetry means. The above literary texts are examples of prose and poetry. You had identified whether
it is an example of poetry or prose. After the discussion, you may go back to this activity to check if you got it
correct.

Task 3. ROLLING IN THE DEEP!

Read and analyze the terminologies below. For better understanding, watch the video from this link.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLPkYgzU7ts)

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THINGS TO DISCUSS!
Prose- Prose is a form of language that has no formal metrical structure. It applies a natural flow of speech, and
ordinary grammatical structure, rather than rhythmic structure, such as in the case of traditional poetry.

Poetry Form

Following is a poetry verse from a popular work of Robert Frost:

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep.

But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”

(Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, by Robert Frost)

Prose Form

Following is the same sentiment written in prose form:

“The woods look lovely against the setting darkness and as I gaze into the mysterious depths of the forest, I
feel like lingering here longer. However, I have pending appointments to keep, and much distance to cover
before I settle in for the night, or else I will be late for all of them.”

The above paragraph is conveying a similar message, but it is conveyed in ordinary language, without a
formal metrical structure to bind it.

Types of Prose

1. Nonfictional Prose: A literary work that is mainly based on fact, though it may contain fictional
elements in certain cases.

Examples include biographies and essays.

2. Fictional Prose: A literary work that is wholly or partly imagined or theoretical.

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Examples are novels, short Liter stories, legend

Poetry- Poetry is a type of literature based on the interplay of words and rhythm. It often
employs rhyme and meter (a set of rules governing the number and arrangement of syllables in each
line). In poetry, words are strung together to form sounds, images, and ideas that might be too
complex or abstract to describe directly.
Example

“Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth,
nothing is bred that is weaker than man.”
(Homer, The Odyssey)

LYRIC POEM - is a short poem

which has the characteristics NARRATIVE POETRY - Types of DRAMATIC POETRY - Has
of a song. It pertains to a poet that narrates a story elements related closely to the
single mood or feeling and is through the use of poetic diction drama. It uses a dramatic
more personal in nature. either real or imaginary. technique and may unfold a story.

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SONNET

Types of Lyric Poetry

- The Name sonnet derives from Italian word “sonneto” which means little song.
- is a relatively short poem consisting of merely fourteen lines. It is known to follow a
strict pattern of rhyme.
- Classified into Petrarchan, Shakespearean, Spenserian and Miltonic sonnets.
Example
Sonnet 116
by William Shakespeare
1st Line Let me not to the marriage of true minds A
2nd Line Admit impediments. Love is not Love B
3rd Line Which alters when it alteration finds, A
4th Line Or bends with the remover to remove: B
5th Line O no! it is an ever-fixed mark C
6th Line That looks on tempests and is never shaken; D
7th Line It is the star to every wandering bark, C Rhyming
14 LINES th
8 Line Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. D Pattern

9th Line Love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks E
10th Line Within his bending sickle's compass come: F
11th Line Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, E
12th Line But bears it out even to the edge of doom F
13th Line If this be error and upon me proved, G
14th Line I never writ, nor no man ever loved. G

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- This is a lyric poem which expresses lament and mourning of the dead, feeling of grief and
melancholy.
-The theme of this poem is death.

Lycidas
By John Milton
(an excerpt)

Yet once more, O ye Laurels, and once more

The author uses symbolism.
Ye Myrtles brown, with Ivy never-sear, The laurels, myrtles, berries,
leaves are symbols or can be
I come to pluck your Berries harsh and crude, more associated with life
specifically the life whom was
And with forc'd fingers rude,
being referred to in the poem
Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. which eventually will die.

Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear,

A simple representation of
ODE Compels me to disturb your season due: lamentation of a friend’s
death.
For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime.

- This is a poem of nobling feeling, expressed with dignity and praises for some persons, objects,
events or ideas.
- It is exalted in tone and formal in structure and content.

Ode to Spring
(By Thomas Gray)

“The untaught harmony of spring …

Still is the toiling hand of Care: The speaker is this poem is
ELEGY talking about the spring
The panting herds repose:
season, and praises its beauty,
Yet hark, how thro’ the peopled air expressing lofty and noble
sentiments about it.
The busy murmur glows!
Some lightly o’er the current skim,

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Some show their gaily-gilded trim Liter
Quick-glancing to the sun.”

EPIC

Types of Narrative Poetry

-This is a long and narrative poem that normally tells a story about a hero or an adventure.
- Epics can be oral stories or can be poems in written form.

BEOWULF: The Mother of Grendel

(an excerpt from Chapter XX)

They sank then to slumber. With sorrow one paid for

His evening repose, as often betid them
While Grendel was holding1 the gold-bedecked palace,
Ill-deeds performing, till his end overtook him
Death for his sins. ’Twas seen very clearly, This is the continuation of the
story Beowulf: The Battle with
Known unto earth-folk, that still an avenger
Grendel. In this part, the
Outlived the loathed one, long since the sorrow mother of Grendel is seeking
for revenge upon her son’s
Caused by the struggle; the mother of Grendel, vanquished.
Devil-shaped woman, her woe ever minded, This is an example of epic
since it tells a story of a hero
Who was held to inhabit the horrible waters, named Beowulf but it was
The cold-flowing currents, after Cain had become a written in a poetic form. It’s
like reading a story but written
Slayer-with-edges to his one only brother, as a poem.
The son of his sire; he set out then banished,
Marked as a murderer, man-joys avoiding,
Lived in the desert. Thence demons unnumbered
Fate-sent awoke; one of them Grendel,…

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BALLAD

-It also tell a story, like epic poems however, ballad poetry is often based on a legend or a folk tale.
-Most ballads are written in four-six stanzas and has a regular rhythms and rhyme schemes.
-A ballad often features a refrain-a regular repeated line or group of lines.

The Mermaid
by Unknown author
This ballad is composed of 5
1st Line Oh the ocean waves may roll, lines which primarily tells us a
story about a mermaid which
2nd Line And the stormy winds may blow, could embody a certain
3rd Line While we poor sailors go skipping aloft folktale.

4th Line And the land lubbers lay down below, below, below
Repeated lines.
5th Line And the land lubbers lay down below.

SOCIAL POEM

-This is either purely comic or tragic and pictures the life of today.
- It may aim to bring changes in social conditions.
Social Distancing
Krish Radhakrishna
A simple yet impactful social
Jack and Jill went up the hill, poem which tells us the
importance of Social
Social distancing was forgotten, Distancing which is
implemented in the world
Jill came down with Covid 19, today due to Covid-19
We wish they had been smarter! pandemic.

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DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE
Types of Dramatic Poetry
-This is a combination of drama and poetry.
-It presents some line or speech of single character in a particular but complicated situation and sometimes in a
dilemma.
-It means a person, who is speaking to himself or someone else
speaks to reveal specific intentions of his actions.

“My Last Duchess”

by Robert Browning

“That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,

Looking as if she were alive. I call

This extract is from
That piece a wonder, now; Fra Pandolf’s hands
the famous monologue of a
duke. He tells his audience,
Worked busily a day, and there she stands.
possibly the father of his
new bride, about his last
Will’t please you sit and look at her? I said
duchess who could not
survive his severity. It is a
“Fra Pandolf” by design, for never read
type of psychological
monologue which tells the
Strangers like you that pictured countenance,
psychological state of mind
of the speaker. Browning
The depth and passion of its earnest glance,
has exposed the duke’s
cruel state of mind through
But to myself they turned (since none puts by
this poem “My Last
Duchess.”
The curtain I have drawn for you, but I)

And seemed as they would ask me, if they durst,

How such a glance came there; so, not the first

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Are you to turn and ask thus.”
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SOLILOQUY

-The thoughts and emotions are heard by the author and the audience as well.
- It is a great technique used to convey the progress of action of the play, by means of expressing a character’s
thoughts about a certain character or past, present, or upcoming event, while talking to himself without
acknowledging the presence of any other person.
Romeo and Juliet
By William Shakespeare
An Excerpt In this part of the story,
Juliet was thinking aloud
“O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? about the traditional enmity
between Romeo’s clan and
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
her family, expressing her
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, hopelessness about the
success of their love. She is
And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.” telling aloud what is in her
head.

HAIKU
Special Types of Poetry
-Special type of poetry which originated from Japan.
-It’s the shortest type of poem and, often, the most difficult to understand.
- It consists of three lines that generally do not rhyme. The lines should have five, seven, and
five syllables in them.
The best-known Japanese haiku is Bashō's "old pond":
fu-ru-i-ke ya (5 syllables)
ka-wa-zu to-bi-ko-mu (7 syllables)
mi-zu no o-to (5 syllables)
Translated
old pond . . .

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a frog leaps in Liter
water’s sound
Note: Some Haikus does not follow the 5-7-5 syllables because they are translated but the original transcript
follows.

Task 4. GETTING THE PIECES.

From the discussion above, supply the necessary information in the Venn Diagram based from your
understanding of the lesson.
Note: No Copying of definition or any lines from the discussion above. Use your own explanation.

PROSE POETRY

Differences Differences
Similarities

Task 5. CHOOSING THE RIGHT ONE!

General Direction: Below are excerpts from different literary pieces and situations that will describe of what is
being asked. Read and analyze the sentences carefully then choose the correct answer for each.

A. FICTION OR NON-FICTION?
Write “Non-Fiction” if the statement/ scenario implies truthfulness or based from facts and “Fiction” if I was
wholly or partly based from imagination only.

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________________1. As a writer
to write about
Liter of your school paper, you were asked
a biography of your newly appointed
principal for the centerfold. Biography is an example of what type of prose?
________________2. You love reading stories. One of your friends introduced you the “Wattpad” app: an
application that contains thousands of different stories of different genres. Wattpad stories
are example of what type of prose?

________________3. It is in trend nowadays that stories from the books are adapted in motion pictures. Some
of those stories are The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Harry Potter by J.K.
Rowling. In Philippines, the ABNKKBSNPLako by Bob Ong was adapted into a movie
portrayed by Jericho Rosales. These stories belongs to what type of prose?
________________4. Your teacher asked you to write an essay about the most unforgettable place you’d been.
You wrote about your experiences when you travel with your family in Palawan. Writing
your own experiences is an example of you writing a what type of prose?
________________5. When you were a kid, you keep on hearing stories from your parents or even siblings
about fairytales or fables: Cinderella, Pinocchio, Snow White, Si Pagong at Si Kuneho,
Ang Leon at ang Daga, etc and since you were a kid, sometimes, you believe that they are
true only to realize now they are just products of imaginations and those stories could
change. Fairytales, fables, legends are example of what type of prose?

B. POETRY TIME!
Identify the type of Poetry being described.
________________1. Dragonfly (Tutubi) (Gonzalo K. Flores)
Original Translated
hila mo’y tabak… .pulling your sword...
ang bulaklak, nanginig! the flower trembled
sa paglapit mo as you approached

________________2. An Excerpt from Michael Flores Caasi

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Yes
Liter brightest sun is about to set
I am old and over gray
heaven where I am prepared to rest and my pen is running out of ink
In serenity of an endless poetry I will ever miss the words I played
I'll weave another rhymes of ingenuity. and leave the rest of my pretty wink.

_________________3. Morning Coffee, Before Work (Philippine Literature)

The do-nut shop was open every day
we gathered there so we could have our say.
The “regulars” would leave their cup to stay
on hook-board: their own coffee cup buffet.

The hunters met the councilmen and cops,

and teachers met their students’ moms and pops.
The farmers spoke of watering their crops,
and sporting brags and bullshit never stops.

A newcomer just didn’t hold much sway

the coffee group was small-town thought per-se
The men would read, the women might crochet
until the conversation turned their way.

I learned more there than I did watching news

and found a balanced set of rural views.

__________________4. Excerpt from the story of Lam-ang (An Ilokano Poem)

“All the more brave-man Lam-ang still persisted.
He left for the forest, the place of Igorots.
For he wanted to see the father he sprang from.
For he had with him the stone of sagang,
The stone of tangraban, of lao-laoigan,
A wild carabao’s amulet.
When he passed by a grove of caña vernal,
The shoots bent down
For he also had the amulet of the centipede”

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__________________5. Excerpt
Pearl of the Orient Seas”
Liter from Jett Franco’s poem. “___ to my

“O thy palms so sturdy and luster green

That smiled at me,
sited in a warm cushioned floor.
Let thy beauties drive me home,
To the breeze of summer wind
and her marvelous rains.”

Task 6. ALL ABOUT ME.

Students should evaluate themselves. Think of the things they like or they don’t like to do, strengths and
weaknesses, favorites, idols and anything about them. They are given a sequence of line beginnings and must
complete each line to make an autobiographical poem.
For example:
I seem to be as prickly as a cactus spike
But really I am as soft as the juicy flesh inside
Note: Each set of lines can be repeated any number of times.

Suggested beginnings:
•I'm good at.../ I'm not good at... •I know a lot about... / I know nothing about...
•I used to be.../ But now I'm... •I believe in... / I don't believe in...
•I am.../ I am not... •I admire.../ I don't respect...
•If you.../ Then I'll… •I like.:./ But I don't like...

Place your poem here.

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Task 7. FINAL OUTPUT.

Your task is to make a compilation of samples for each type of Prose and
Goal Poetry through making a magazine/ brochure.
Assume that you are an editor and lay out artist of a certain magazine/
Role brochure and you need to produce a new issue which is a compilation of
literary text.
Your target audience are students specially those who are studying at
Audience home.
You need to make a compilation of different literary texts specifically
Situation Prose and Poetry for student’s references specially those who does not
have internet access at home.
Your magazine/brochure will serve as a reference guide for students who
Product/ Performance are studying literature and an easy access of information.
Your magazine/brochure must…
Standards & Criteria 1. contain at least one sample for each type of prose and poetry
2. could be print, hand written or cut outs from other magazine or
newspaper
3. artistically done
4. cite your source

Paste a picture of your brochure here.

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References:
● https://www.google.com/search?q=William+Shakespeare&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwj5vtKVvJ7pAhUEA6YKHfaSCuEQ2-
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cCegQIABAA&oq=lam-
ang&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQAzICCAAyAggAMgIIADICCAAyAggAMgIIADIECAAQHjIECAAQHjIECAAQHjIECAAQHjoECAAQQ1Coj
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● https://literarydevices.net/prose/

● https://literaryterms.net/poetry/

●https://www.slideshare.net/chelseafied1994/types-of-poetry-36649070?from_action=save

●https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/omeka/files/original/f5c5d8879bfe018401a94da6fe9c9b70.pdf http://
education.maritime.history.sa.gov.au/documents/PoetryWordgames.pdf

●http://www.voicesnet.com/displayonepoem.aspx?poemid=156607

●https://www.scribd.com/doc/60057658/Biag-Ni-Lamang-Pedro-Bukaneg-Full-Story-English

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