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Creative Writing By: Mark Gerald V. Granada, LPT TIC-TAC-TOE  1. If your first name starts with the letters A, B, C, D, E, F, or G, perform activity numbers 1 and 8. 2. If your first name starts with the letters H, I, J, K, L, M, or N, perform RULES activi...

Creative Writing By: Mark Gerald V. Granada, LPT TIC-TAC-TOE  1. If your first name starts with the letters A, B, C, D, E, F, or G, perform activity numbers 1 and 8. 2. If your first name starts with the letters H, I, J, K, L, M, or N, perform RULES activity numbers 2 and 7. 3. If your first name starts with the letters O, P, Q, R, S, or T, perform activity numbers 3 and 6. 4. If your first name starts with the letters U, V, W, X, Y, or Z, perform activity numbers 4 and 5. 1. WRITE A FOUR-LINE POEM 2. WRITE A THREE- 3. USE YOUR SENSE OF USING SIMILE OR METAPHOR SENTENCE INFORMAL TEXT TASTE TO WRITE A FIVE- TO DESCRIBE YOUR BEST MESSAGE TO YOUR SENTENCE DESCRIPTION OF FRIEND. NEIGHBOR. YOUR FAVORITE FOOD. 4. USING HYPERBOLE, 5. USING PERSONIFICATION, WRITE A TWO-SENTENCE WRITE A FOUR-SENTENCE DESCRIPTION OF HOW YOU DESCRIPTION OF YOUR FEEL. FAVORITE THING/OBJECT. 7. LOOK FOR ONE-LINE 8. USE YOUR SENSE OF 6. WRITE A TWO-SENTENCE LYRIC FROM A SONG SIGHT TO WRITE A THREE- FORMAL TEXT MESSAGE TO INCORPORATING SENTENCE DESCRIPTION OF YOUR TEACHER. ALLITERATION IN THE YOUR FAVORITE PLACE. LYRICS. What is Creative Writing? Creative Writing Creative writing uses senses and emotions in order to create a strong visual in the reader’s mind whereas other forms of writing typically only leave the reader with facts and information instead of emotional intrigue. (Source: (Pope, Self-Publishing School, 2019) Forms of Creative Writing 1.Fiction 2.Poetry 3.Nonfiction 4.Prose  Elements of Creative Writing Language Used in Creative Writing Denotative Language Connotative Language WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT DICTION? Diction is the careful selection of words to communicate a message or establish a particular voice or writing style Writers choose specific words and phrases depending on the outcome they’re trying to achieve. (Source: (MasterClass, 2020)) Types of Diction Formal Diction Informal Diction  What is the difference of the two? Sample 1: Formal: Would you care to explain the reasoning behind your decision to leave the gathering early? Informal: Why’d you leave the party so soon? Sample 2: Formal: Hello, young man. It is a true pleasure to make your acquaintance. How are you feeling today? Informal: Hey, kid. Nice to meet you. What’s up? Imagery and Sensory Experience Imagery is the creation of a picture or images in the mind of the reader by the use of words that appeal to the senses. Types of Imagery 1.Visual Imagery 2.Auditory Imagery 3.Olfactory Imagery 4.Gustatory Imagery 5.Tactile Imagery  Sample: 1. Visual Imagery: The moonlight shone over the lake and reflected in her big, dark eyes. 2. Auditory Imagery: She awoke to the chirping of birds and the soft whisper of a breeze as it passed through her window. 3. Olfactory Imagery: The sweet aroma of the freshly baked cookies wafted from the kitchen to the living room. 4. Gustatory Imagery: As he bit into the juicy burger, a variety of spices danced upon his tongue. 5. Tactile Imagery: the tree bark was rough against her skin. SEATWORK IDENTIFY THE TYPE OF IMAGERY FOR EACH STATEMENT. 1. "I picked up a chunk of potato salad and flicked it in his face. He dipped his straw into his milk, capped the top of the straw with his finger, pulled out the straw, reached it over my head, and released his finger. I got a milk shower."--Crash 2. "...above the noise of the waterfall, you could hear the suck-suck-sucking sound of the pipes as they did their work." 3. "David let loose the scream of his life."--Eggs 4. "I could feel the tiny tongue mopping the crevices of my left ear."--Leo, Stargirl 5. "For the life of him, he couldn't figure out why these East Enders called themselves black. He kept looking and looking, and the colors he found were gingersnap and light fudge and dark fudge and acorn and butter rum and cinnamon and burnt orange. But never licorice, which, to him, was real black."-- Maniac Magee 6. "I took a bite. Big mistake." Oatburgers!-- Crash 7. Her fragrance was very strong. 8. "David went in. A smell hit him-- flowery, but old and sour." 9. The tiny red ant climbed up the broken limb. 10. My fingers lingered on the familiar leaves... Figures of Speech are connotative presentations of words to produce a literary effect Classifications of Figures of Speech Figures of Comparison 1.Simile 2.Metaphor Example 1.Life is like a game. (simile) 2.Life is a game. (metaphor) Figures of Contrast 1.Oxymoron 2.Paradox 3.Irony  Example 1.Blinding darkness (oxymoron) 2.The more you hate, the more you love.(paradox) 3.You’re so lovely today; you look like a Christmas tree. Figures of Representation/Reference 1. Metonymy 2. Synecdoche 3. Personification 4. Apostrophe  Example 1.The subjects pay taxes to the Crown. (metonymy) 2.I feed seven mouths. (synecdoche) 3.The flowers are dancing under the smiling sun. (personification) 4.Car, please get me to work today! (apostrophe) Seatwork  1. I met him at the reception when he took me for a spin during a slow song. 2. I need a headcount by morning.  3. Sarah is like a tree- standing tall despite of the calamity. 4. Joe’s new ride was expensive.  5. My father is a dragon when angry. 6. “Oh, coffee, my sweet dark coffee. What would I do without you?”  7. “It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.” 8. Do the thing you think you cannot do.  9. My sister and I had a friendly fight over the lipstick.  10. Coming home to a big mess and saying, “it’s great to be back” Figures of Order 1.Climax 2.Anticlimax Examples of Climax 1.Let a man acknowledge his obligations to himself, his family, his country, and his God. 2."Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!" Examples of Anticlimax 1. "She was a vision of beauty, grace, and elegance, and she tripped over her own feet." 2. In elementary, she graduated valedictorian; in high school, salutatorian; and in college, cum laude. Figures of Sound 1.Alliteration 2.Onomatopoeia 3.Assonance 4.Consonance  Examples 1.Pedro Paterno picked a pack of pad paper. 2.In the field, birds chirp, cows moo, dogs bark, cats meow, and snakes hiss. 3.Haste makes waste. 4.Ninety-nine nannies renewed their contracts. Activity Identify the figures of sounds used on the following lines. 1. "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer." 2. “Mike likes his new bike.” 3. “Janie read a book by the babbling broke.” 4. "The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain." 5. “He stood on the road and cried.” 6. “She sniffed and smelled sage and sassafras.” 7. "A rolling stone gathers no moss." 8. It’s a matter of time 9. “The buzzing bee flew away.” 10. “The rustling leaves kept me awake.” Other Figures 1.Hyperbole Examples The orphaned child cried an ocean of tears. Poetry Poetry a type of literature wherein words are placed together to form sounds and images and follows strictly the rules of meter and rhyme 1. Form the way a poem looks, its physical structure, or its arrangement on the page  Three (3) Most Common Type of Poem 1. Lyric Poem It is any poem with a speaker who expresses strong thoughts and feelings. Examples: Ode Elegy Sonnet Three (3) Most Common Type of Poem 2.Narrative Poem It is a poem that tells or narrates a story. Examples: Ballad Epic Three (3) Most Common Type of Poem 3. Descriptive Poem It is a poem that describes the world that surrounds the speaker Examples: Pastoral Poetry 2. Imagery These are mental pictures the poet creates through language. 3. Rhyme Is the repetition of similar sounds; the most common kind of rhyme is the end rhyme which occurs at the end of two or more lines. 4. Sound reinforces the meaning of the poem, and the rhythm goes along with it. Two (2) Sound Patterns 1.Euphony(L, O, S, SH, M, N, Y, W, U, PH, A) 2.Cacophony (K, J, T, Q, V, C, X, G, Z, CH) 5. Line is a very important part of poetry, for it is like one sentence. Examples of poems classified in the number of lines: 1. Sonnet –14 lines 2. Haiku –3 lines 3. Limerick –5 lines Verse A name for a line of poetry written in meter. Named according to the number of “Feet” per line.  Verse Example: Monometer –one foot Pentameter–five feet Dimeter –two feet Hexameter –six feet Trimester –three feet Heptameter –seven Tetrameter –four feet meter Octometer –eight meter 6. Stanzas are a series of lines grouped and separated by an empty line from other stanzas 6. Stanza Examples: Couplet two-line stanza Triplet three-line stanza Quatrain four-line stanza Sestet six-line stanza Septet seven-line stanza Octave eight-line stanza Kinds of Poetry Acrostic Poem Spoken Word Poetry Limerick