Creative Writing

Quarter 1 – Module 2:
Various Elements,
Techniques, and Literary
Devices in Poetry

Grade 11-Creative Writing

Competency: Identify the various elements, techniques,
and literary devices in specific forms of poetry
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Grade 11-Creative Writing

Competency: Identify the various elements, techniques,
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 Various Elements, Techniques,
and Literary Devices in Poetry

BEGIN

As for William Wordsworth,

“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of
powerful feelings recollected in
tranquility.”
Poetry is older than history –
the earliest expression of primitive
people from tribal ceremonies long
before the written word.
As a youth who seeks to
express varied emotions and
viewpoints, poetry has become a
constant part of your life. Through the
use of rhythmic expression, it gives
man a way of conveying the most
imaginative and intense perception of
himself and the universe.
This chapter will concentrate
on various elements, techniques, and
literary devices in specific forms of
poetry such as theme, language,
sound, and rhythm.

TARGETS

At the end of this lesson, you should be able to:

1. define poetry;
2. identify the elements, techniques, and literary devices in poetry;
3. determine the theme and tone of a poem; and
4. write a poem on a specific form.

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 TRY THIS

Activity 1: A TRIP DOWN TO MEMORY LANE

Directions: Choose the letter of the correct answer. Write your answers in your CW
notebook.
1. All are kinds of poetry EXCEPT one.
A. narrative C. lyric
B. dramatic D. stanza
2. What kind of poetry does tell story or narrate whether it be simple or complex,
long, or short?
A. narrative C. lyric
B. dramatic D. stanza
3. It is a verbal representation of a sensory experience or of an object that can be
known by one or more of the senses.
A. imagery C. stanza
B. rhythm D. form
4. What type of Figure of Speech attributes the human qualities to inanimate
objects?
A. personification C. metaphor
B. simile D. hyperbole
5. It is one of the technical elements of poetry that has two or more lines of poem in
terms of length, meter and usually rhyme scheme.
A. form C. stanza
B. meter D. rhythm
6. All are elements of poetry EXCEPT one.
A. rhythm C. form
B. meter D. paragraph
7. What type of Figure of Speech does use words to imitate sound?
A. personification C. assonance
B. onomatopoeia D. pun
8. All are example of Narrative Poetry EXCEPT one.
A. ballad C. metric romance
B. epic D. dramatic
9. It is a type of Lyric Poetry that is composed of 14 lines.
A. hymn C. elegy
B. ode D. sonnet
10. It is a type of Lyric Poetry that is composed of songs of praises for God or
famous men.
A. hymn C. elegy
B. ode D. sonnet
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 RECALL

Your previous lesson about the use of imagery,

diction, figures of speech, and specific experiences to
evoke meaningful responses from the readers would
play a great role in understanding this module.
To give a head start on this lesson, accomplish
the activity given below.

Activity 2: POEM YOUR NAME

Directions: Create an acrostic poem from your given name. Write your name in
capital letters and vertical form. Each line of the poem should consist of
a word or phrase that describes yourself. Be creative, resourceful, and
artistic of your final output.
See the following examples:
JEN MARY
Joyful Mighty
Energetic Artistic
Neophyte Radiant
Youth

DO THIS

Activity 3: HEY, HOW DO YOU FEEL?

Directions: Read the poem carefully and answer the questions that follow.

First, A Poem Must Be Magical1

by Jose Garcia Villa
First, a poem must be magical, It must have the wisdom of bows
Then musical as a seagull. And it must kneel like a rose.
It must be able to hear
It must be a brightness moving
The luminance of dove and deer.
And hold secret a bird’s flowering It must be able to hide
It must be slender as a bell, What it seeks, like a bride.
And over all I would like to hover
And it must hold fire as well.
God, smiling from the poem’s cover.

1. What is the poem all about?

2. What images did you have in mind while reading the poem?

1
Augusto Antonio A. Aguila, Ralph Semino Galan, and John Jack G. Wigley. Wording the World: The
Art of Creative Writing. (839 EDSA, South Triangle, Quezon City, C & E Publishing, Inc.,
2017), 250-251.
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 EXPLORE
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Good job! You did so well in expressing
your thoughts and feelings about the poem.
Now to answer the questions that follow, review
your responses on the previous activities.

Activity 4: STAY FOCUSED!

Directions: To answer the following questions, please read the poem again.
Write your answers in your CW notebook.

1. Did you enjoy reading the poem?

2. What is it all about?
3. What images were formed in your mind as you read it?
4. Who do you think is the speaker in the poem?
5. How did the speaker perceive the subject of the poem?
6. Which emotions did you feel while reading the piece?
7. What were your realizations after reading?

KEEP THIS IN MIND

Amazing! You have effectively created a

great connection through your responses on the
previous activities.
You are now ready for the discussion on the
various elements, techniques, and literary devices in
specific forms of poetry.

What is Poetry?
Poetry is a term for many literary forms through which man has given rhythmic
expression to his most imaginative and intense perception of himself and the universe.
It gives concentrated imaginative utterance to experience in words so chosen and
arrange that they create an intense emotional response through the union of theme,
language, sound, and rhythm.
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 Poetry is derived from poiein, a Greek word, which means “to make”2. It was
first associated with dance and music and our ancestor’s used poetry to chronicle
great events in history. It is both the most elemental form of human communication
and the most sophisticated and subtle.3
Characteristics
1. It is artificial and is consciously made.
2. It is always rhythmic.
3. Its subjects and tones are seemingly limitless.
4. Its meaning is as much a function of how something is said.
5. It attempts to express incommunicable aspects of experiences through analogy
and metaphor.

Its difference from prose:

1. Poetry is more intense, less direct, more suggestive, and ambiguous.
2. The language is essentially imagery and structures of images.
3. Its rhythm is marked and regular.
As Edgar Allan Poe would say, “Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty.
Elements of Poetry4
A. Rhythm - is the most fundamental, technical element of poetry. It is established
by the regular recurrence of similar units of patterns of sounds.
B. Meter and Line - are types of number of rhythmic units in a line. The line is the line
n of words in poetry. The verse is the line of a poem arranged in a metrical
n o p pattern.
C. Sound structure - is the rhyme.
D. Form - is the fitting together of lines of like structures and length that are tied to
other lines by end rhyme.
a. Couplet- 2 lines
b. Tercet- 3 lines
c. Quatrain- 4 lines
d. Quintet- 5 lines
e. Sestet- 6 lines
f. Septet- 7 lines
g. Octave- 8 lines

2
“Poiein.” Meriam Webster. Accessed July 10, 2020. [Link]
at-play/the-history-of-the-word-poet.
3
Arnold Jarn Ford G. Buhisan and Ayesha H. Sayseng. Creative Writing, K-12 Complaint Worktext for
the Senior High School. (Manila, Philippines, JFS Publishing Services, 2016), 26-47.
4
Buhisan and Sayseng, Creative Writing, 26-47.
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 E. Stanza - is an important element of form. Any recurrent grouping of two or more
lines of poem in terms of length, meter and usually rhyme scheme.
F. Imagery - is a verbal representation of a sensory experience or of an object that
can be known by one or more of the senses.
G. Theme - is the summarized statement containing the main thought or meaning of
the poem.
H. Tone - is the attitude you feel in it; the writer's attitude toward the subject or n o p
qr audience. The tone in a poem of praise is approval. It can be playful, o p
humorous, and regretful, anything — and it can change as the poem along.
Kinds of Poetry
1. Narrative - poetry tells a story or a narrative whether it be simple or complex,
long, or short.
a. Ballad - is meant to be sung.
When she was just a girl
She expected the world
But it flew away from her reach so
She ran away in her sleep
And dreamed of
Para-para-paradise, Para-para-paradise, Para-para-paradise
Every time she closed her eyes
- Coldplay, “Paradise”

b. Epic - is a long narrative poem in an elevated style that recounts the

adventures of heroes of heroic preparations.

The prime examples of the oral epic are Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.
Outstanding examples of the written epic include Virgil’s Aeneid and
Lucan’s Pharsalia in Latin, Chanson de
Roland in medieval French, Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando
furioso and Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata in Italian, Cantar
de mio Cid in Spanish, and John Milton’s Paradise Lost and Edmund
Spenser’s Faerie Queene in English.
c. Metrical Romance - is a long narrative tale in verse in which the chief
figures are kings or distressed maidens acting under the impulse of love
religious faith or a search for adventures. The most famous example of
a metrical tale is "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer.
2. Dramatic poetry - employs dramatic form or some elements of dramatic n o
p q technique as a means of achieving poetic ends.
It happens only when one person speaks but through him a dramatic
situation is developed revealing various aspects of his character and
the circumstances that add to his life.

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 4. Lyric poetry - is a brief subjective statement marked by strong imagination,
n o melody and feeling and is designed to create in a reader a single,
unified and intense impression.
a. Hymn - is a song of praise for God or famous men.
b. Ode - is usually intellectual in tone; elaborate lyric consisting a complex
replications and structures.
“Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:
What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape
Of deities or mortals, or of both,
In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?
What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?
What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?
What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?”
- John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

c. Eclogue is a pastoral poetry celebrating shepherds and rustic life.

In this work several characters of his first work are shown, and
the subject returns to develop between people of the field
suffering by an unrequited love.

"Albanian:
In the middle of winter it is warm
the fresh water of this clear source,
and in the summer more than icy snow.
[...]
Oh beauty above the human being,
oh clear eyes, oh golden hair,
oh ivory neck, oh white hand!
How can you pray for what sad sadness
became such a joyful life
and in such poverty all my treasure?
[...]
Salicio:
Albanian, let the weeping, qu'en oíllo
I grieve."
- Garcilaso de la Vega, “In the middle of
winter it is warm”

“Poetry Basics,” Slideshare, accessed July 10, 2020, [Link]

poetry-basics-introduction-to-poetry-analysis-and-forms.

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 d. Elegy is a meditation on death.
Here's a selection from Walt Whitman's poem entitled, "O
Captain! My Captain!" which was written in memory of Abraham
Lincoln:

My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;
The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and
done;
From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won;
Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!
But I, with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

Whitman describes the emotions that he felt when Lincoln was

murdered, and he paints an emotionally evoking picture of the
dead Captain lying still.

e. Sonnet is a poem consist of 14 lines.

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 in his 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.
- William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 18”

5. Blank Verse poetry refers to a poetic piece written without rhyme, especially if
that poetry is written in iambic pentameter.

“Intro to poetry types and terms,” Slideshare, accessed July 10, 2020,
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 “But, woe is me, you are so sick of late,
So far from cheer and from your former state,
That I distrust you. Yet, though I distrust,
Discomfort you, my lord, it nothing must. …”
- William Shakespeare, “Hamlet”

Many of Shakespeare’s plays are written in blank verse, including much

of “Hamlet.” Here, the dialog is without rhymes, which makes it sound
more realistic, but it still follows a strict meter—iambic pentameter. This
lends it a sense of grandiosity beyond if Shakespeare had tried to mimic
natural speech, and the deliberate space of stressed and unstressed
syllables gives it a satisfying sense of rhythm.

Literary Devices used in Poetry

There are tons of literary devices out there—it would be nearly impossible to
list all of them. But to get you started, we have compiled some of the most common
poetry terms, along with a few of the more interesting ones!

A. Allegory is a story, poem, or other written work that can be interpreted to

have a secondary meaning.
Aesop’s Fables are examples of allegories, as they are ostensibly
about one thing (such as “The Ant and the Grasshopper”) but
actually have a secondary meaning. Fables are particularly literal
examples of allegories, but there are many others, as well, such as
George Orwell’s Animal Farm or Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Fruit.”
B. Alliteration is repetition of a sound or letter at the beginning of multiple N
O words in a series.

“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and

weary…”
- Edgar Allen Poe, “The Raven”

Poe uses alliteration with the “wh,” sound at the beginning of multiple words.
The repetition here mimics the sound of the wind (something you might hear on a
dreary night), and also sounds a little soothing—something that’s interrupted in the
next couple of lines by a different sound, just as Poe interrupts his soothing, round
vowel sounds with repetition of the ‘p’ sound in “suddenly there came a tapping, / As
of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door….”

“Intro to poetry types and terms,” Slideshare, accessed July 10, 2020,
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 C. Allusion is an indirect reference to something.

“The Cunninghams are country folks, farmers, and the crash hit
them hardest.”
- Harper Lee, “To Kill a Mockingbird”

Lee isn’t speaking of a literal crash—she’s referencing the stock market crash
of the late 1920s, which left many people without money. Scout, To Kill a
Mockingbird’s narrator, references the stock market crash in a way that’s appropriate
for her context, which readers can gather from the novel’s setting.

Using this allusion allows Lee to do some quick scene-setting. Not only does it
establish the novel firmly within its setting, but it also shows that Scout herself is a
clear part of that setting—she speaks to the audience in the way that a child of that
era would speak, giving the story a greater sense of realism.
D. Apostrophe is a poetic device where the writer addresses a person or thing N
O that isn’t present with an exclamation.

“O stranger of the future!

O inconceivable being!
whatever the shape of your house,
no matter how strange and colorless the clothes you
may wear,
I bet nobody there likes a wet dog either.
I bet everybody in your pub
even the children, pushes her away.”
- Billy Collins, “To A Stranger Born In Some Distant Country
Hundreds Of Years From Now”

Though we know from the title that Collins is addressing a stranger from the
future, in the final stanza of the poem he addresses that stranger directly. Apostrophe
was particularly common in older forms of poetry, going all the way back to Ancient
Greece—many works of Greek literature begin with an invocation of the Muses,
typically by saying something like, “Sing in me, O Muse.” Because the narrator of
Collins’ poem is calling out to someone in the future, he mimics the language of the
past and situates this poem in a larger context.

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Assonance is a repetition of vowel or diphthong sounds in one or more words N
found close together.

“ Hear the loud alarum bells—

Brazen bells!/ What tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!
In the startled ear of night
How they scream out their affright!
Too much horrified to speak,
They can only shriek, shriek,
Out of tune….”
- Edgar Allen Poe, “The Bells”

When Poe talks about alarm bells, he uses sharp, high-pitch vowels to echo
their sound: notice the repetition of long “e” and “i” sounds, both of which sound a bit
like screams.
E. Consonance is a repetition of specific consonant sounds in close proximity.

“Tyger Tyger, burning bright,

In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
- William Blake, “The Tyger”

Black repeatedly uses multiple sounds in the first stanza of this famous poem.
One of the most prominent is ‘r,’ which shows up in every line of the first stanza, and
almost every line of the poem as a whole. As Blake is writing about the tiger, he is
musing on its fearsome nature and where it comes from, with the repeated ‘r’ sound
mimicking the tiger’s growl like a small, subtle threat in the poem’s background.
F. Enjambment is the continuation of a sentence beyond a line break, couplet, or
N stanza without an expected pause.

“What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?

“Intro to poetry types and terms,” Slideshare, accessed July 10, 2020,
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 Maybe it just sags
Like a heavy load.
Or does It explode?”
- Langston Hughes, “Harlem”

Hughes plays with multiple methods of ending lines in this poem,

including enjambment. The first two lines of the second stanza
and the second-to-last stanza are examples of enjambment, as
the thought continues from one line to the next without any
punctuation. Notice the way these lines feel in comparison to the
others, especially the second example, isolated in its own
stanza. The way its written mimics the exhaustion of carrying a
heavy load, as you can’t pause for breath the way that you do with
the lines ended with punctuation.

G. Irony has a few different meanings. The most common is the use of tone or N
O exaggeration to convey a meaning opposite to what is being literally said.
N A second form of irony is situational irony, in which a situation or event
N contradicts expectations, usually in a humorous fashion. A third form is N
O dramatic irony, where the audience of a play, movie, or other piece of art
N is aware of something that the characters are not.
a. Verbal irony happens when what someone says does not match what
n they mean, might look something like this:
"Yeah, I love dogs," she said dryly, holding the miniature
poodle at arm's length as hives sprang up along her arms.

b. Situational irony would include things like a police station getting n o

p robbed or a marriage counselor getting a divorce—we
n would expect police to be able to resist getting robbed
n and a marriage counselor to be able to save their own
n marriage, so the fact that these unexpected things
n occur is darkly funny.

c. Dramatic irony is evident in Romeo and Juliet. The audience knows that
n Juliet isn't dead when Romeo comes to find her in the n
o tomb, but obviously can't stop Romeo from killing himself
n to be with her. Unlike other forms of irony, dramatic irony
n often isn't funny—it heightens tension and increases n
o p audience investment, but doesn't necessarily have to n
o make people laugh.

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 H. Simile is a figure of speech in which one thing is likened to another in such a n
o way as to clarify and enhance an image. It is an explicit comparison n
o p recognizable by the use of the words “like” or “as”. It is equally common
n in prose and verse and is a figurative device of great antiquity.
“The great blast furnaces of Leige rose along the line like ancient
castles burning in the boarder raid.”

I. Metaphor is a figure of speech in which one thing is described in terms of n

o another. The comparison is usually implicit; whereas in simile it is n
o explicit.
“ Shelley dreamed it. Now the dream decays.
The props crumble. The familiar ways
Are stale with tears trodden underfoot.
The heart’s flower withers at the root.
Bury it, then, in history’s sterile dust.
The slow years shall tame your tawny lust.”

J. Personification is an impersonation or embodiment of some quality or n o

abstraction; the attribution of human qualities to inanimate
objects. Personification is inherent in many languages
through the use of gender, and it appears to be very frequent
in literatures – especially poetry.

“The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right,

White as a knuckle and terribly upset.
It drags the sea after it like a dark crime; it is quiet
With the O-gape of complete despair. I live here.
Twice on Sunday, the bells startle the sky –
Eight great tongues affirming the Resurrection.
At the end, they soberly bong out their names.

K. Pun is a play on words using multiple meanings or similar sounds as a joke.

"Mine is a long and a sad tale!" said the Mouse, turning to Alice,
and sighing.
"It is a long tail, certainly," said Alice, looking down with wonder at
the Mouse's tail; "but why do you call it sad?" And she kept on
puzzling about it while the Mouse was speaking...."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

“Intro to poetry types and terms,” Slideshare, accessed July 10, 2020,
[Link]
Arnold Jarn Ford G. Buhisan and Ayesha H. Sayseng. Creative Writing, K-12 Complaint Worktext for
the Senior High School. (Manila, Philippines, JFS Publishing Services, 2016), 26-47.

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 Here, Alice clearly misunderstands what the mouse is saying—he
says ‘tale,’ referring to his long and sad story, and she hears ‘tail,’
referring to his literal tail. The result is a misunderstanding between
the two that ends with Alice looking rude and uncaring.
Though it makes Alice look bad, it is quite entertaining for the
reader. The world of Wonderland is full of strangeness, so it is not
really a surprise that Alice wouldn’t understand what’s happening.
However, in this case it is a legitimate misunderstanding,
heightening the comedy as Alice’s worldview is once again shaken.
L. Repetition is a process of repeating certain words or phrases.

“Do not go gentle into that good night,

Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.”
- Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Throughout this poem, Thomas repeats the lines, “Do not go gentle
into that good night,” and “Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
The two lines do not appear together until the final couplet of the
poem, cementing their importance in relation to one another. But
before that, the repetition of each line clues you into their
importance. No matter what else is said, the repetition tells you that
it all comes back to those two lines.
M. Hyperbole is a figure of speech which contains an exaggeration for emphasis.

“By heaven methinks it were an easy leap

To pluck bright honour from the pale fac’d moon,
Or dive into the bottom of the deep
Where fathom line could never touch the ground

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 N. Onomatopoeia is a formation and use of words to imitate sounds. For example:
n dong, crackle, moo, pop, whiz, whoosh, zoom. It is very
n common in verse and fairly common in prose and is found
n in many literatures at all times. As a rule, it is deliberately
n used to achieve a special effect.

“When the train starts, and the passengers are settled

To fruit, periodicals and business letters
(And those who saw them off have left the platform)
Their faces relax from grief into relief,
To the sleepy rhythm of a hundred hours.

SUM UP

You are almost done with this

module. You have identified the various
elements, techniques, and literary devices
in specific forms of poetry. Now, let’s recap
important things you have learned.

Poetry is a combination of words in lines, rhyme, tone, voice, theme, language,

and emotion which makes it creative means to liberate the poet’s thoughts. It uses
through a specialized and heightened language that combines the power of figures of
speech, literary devices, rhythm, meter, lines, stanza, imagery, theme, and tone in
order to express one’s creative ideas and feelings.

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 APPLY WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED

Activity 4: MEMORY CHECK!

Directions: Identify the figure of speech reflected in each statement.
Write your answers in your CW notebook.

1. I’m so busy trying to accomplish ten million things at once.

2. Einstein is not a good mathematician.
3. The sofa is not fertile soil for such a potato.
4. Don’t delay dawn’s disarming display. Dusk demands daylight.
5. Why should their liberty than ours be more?
6. She looks like a flower but she stings like a bee.
7. That rise in poverty will unlock the Pandora’s box of crimes.
8. The picture in that magazine screamed for attention.
9. The clutter of utensils.
10. Having a fight with your best friend just before your birthday and commenting.
“Great! This is just what I needed.“

Activity 5: BE CREATIVE!
Directions: Create an original poem about love and sacrifice. Be guided by the
scoring rubrics below. Write your poem in your CW notebook.

Rubrics for Scoring

Criterion Excellent Average Poor

(30 points) (20 points) (10 points)
Creativity The poem uses 5 or The poem uses 2 to 3 The poem uses no
more literary literary devices to literary devices to
devices to describe describe situations, describe situations,
situations, people, people, and objects. people, and
and object. objects.

Rhythm The poem uses The poem sometimes The poem does
rhythm throughout, uses rhythm but may not have any
which benefits the waver in a way that noticeable rhythm.
poetic tone. distracts the reader and
negatively affects the
tone.

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Cohesiveness The poem goes The poem somewhat The poem does
perfectly together. goes together but needs not go together.
There is unity more cohesiveness. The The poem’s lines
between lines and poem’s lines and and stanzas sway
stanzas, which stanzas sometimes from the topic.
connect with the sway from the topic.
topic.
Use of poetic The poem uses 5 or The uses 2 to 3 poetic The poem does
elements more poetic elements but they not have any
elements to sometimes distract the noticeable rhythm.
enhance the poem reader.
and the reader’s
emotions.

REFLECT
REFLECT

Amazing! You have shown your inner

Shakespeare by writing and understanding
the composition of your poem.
This time, you will reflect on your work
and rate your confidence.

Activity 6: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE!

Directions: Draw the following illustration in your CW notebook. In the “Past” box,
write the things that you have not learned yet. In the “Present” box, write
the things you have learned in this module. Lastly, in the “Future” box,
write what you want to learn more about poetry.

Past Present Future

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 LEARN MORE

Activity 7: TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE!

Directions: Read the lines carefully and identify the technique/s being used. Refer to
the choices inside the box and explain how you came up with your answer.
Do this in your CW notebook.

alliteration rhyme onomatopoeia idiom simile

metaphor pun personification irony hyperbole

Example: This falling spray of snowflakes is / a handful of dead Februaries

Technique/s used: personification and alliteration
Explanation: Februaries can’t die like humans can; therefore it is an example
of personification. Also, many words begin with the letter “F” or
“S”, so it also has alliteration.

1. The moon is faithful, although blind

Technique/s used: _______________________________________
Explanation: _______________________________________

2. Children sleeping softly in their bedroom bunks

Technique/s used: _______________________________________
Explanation: _______________________________________

3. Time is a green orchard.

Technique/s used: _______________________________________
Explanation: _______________________________________

4. At dusk there’s a thin haze like cigarette smoke / ribbons

Technique/s used: _______________________________________
Explanation: _______________________________________

5. They chained themselves to the seat for the endless ride from Iloilo to Aklan.
Technique/s used: _______________________________________
Explanation: _______________________________________

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 ASSESS WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED

Directions: Choose the letter of the best answer. Write your answers in your CW notebook.

1. What is "rhyme"?
A. The repetition of a letter.
B. The repetition of an ending sound.
C. The number of words found in one line.
D. Comparing two things using "like" or "as."

2. This is a comparison of two unlike things which says one thing IS another?
A. alliteration C. metaphor
B. hyperbole D. simile

3. The way a poem looks is its ____________.

A. stanza C. structure
B. set-up D. sentences

4. Poems are arranged in lines. Lines can be ___________.

A. a single word C. a part of sentence
B. a sentence D. all of the above

5. Groups of lines are called ______________.

A. sentences C. rhyme scheme
B. stanzas D. line groupings

6. Free verse poetry does not have _______________.

A. stanzas C. rhyme or rhythm
B. plot or conflict D. serious topic

7. All are found in poetry EXCEPT _______________.

A. rhyme scheme C. stanza
B. rhythm D. paragraphs

8. What structure is poetry written in?

A. sentences & paragraphs C. lines & paragraphs
B. sentences & stanzas D. lines & stanzas

9. Poems that tell a story are called ____________.

A. free verse poems
B. lyrical poems C. narrative poems
D. humorous poems
10. The writer of a poem is called____________
A. poet C. author
B. illustrator D. artist

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 11. It is a poetry that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the writer or
speaker; songlike quality or set to a beat
A. free verse C. lyric poem
B. ballad D. eulogy

12. It is a poetry that has no regular rhythm, meter, rhyme, or structure

A. free verse C. haiku
B. ode D. prose

13. What is the feeling that a poem creates for the reader? It can be positive or
negative.
A. mood C. imagery
B. simile D. tone

14. What describes something as larger or wildly different than it actually is?
A. exaggeration C. imagery
B. mood D. irony

15. What is a group of lines called in poetry that give poems structure?
A. rhythm C. stanza
B. symbol D. lines
16. What are two lines of poetry called?
A. octet C. couplet
B. tercet D. sestet

17. What is the language that appeals to the senses in poetry?

It creates pictures in the head.
A. onomatopoeia C. idiom
B. imagery D. metaphor

18. What type of speech gives human qualities to animals, objects, and ideas?
A. mood C. free verse
B. personification D. pun

19. What is the "attitude" a writer takes toward the subject or audience of a
poem?
A. tone C. scheme
B. rhyme D. mood

20. What is poetry written without any rhyme, rhythm or form and sounds natural
like everyday conversation?
A. alliteration C. imagery
B. free verse D. ballad

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 GLOSSARY

Poetry - a term for many literary forms through which man has given
rhythmic expression to his most imaginative and intense
perception of himself and the universe.

ANSWER KEY

Try This Activity 3

1. D 1. hyperbole
2. A 2. irony
3. A 3. pun
4. A 4. personification
5. C 5. apostrophe
6. D 6. metaphor
7. B 7. allusion
8. D 8. personification
9. D 9. onomatopoeia
10. A 10. irony

Activity 4
1. Personification (the moon was given human characteristics: faithful, blind)
2. Onomatopoeia (use of the word: softly)
3. Metaphor (the direct comparison between “time” and the “green orchard”)
4. Simile (the obvious use of “like”)
5. Hyperbole (“chained” was an exaggeration of the length of time they spent on the
subway)

Assess What You Have Learned

1. B 6. C 11. C 16. C
2. C 7.D 12.A 17.B
3. A 8.D 13.A 18.A
4. D 9.C 14.A 19.B
5. B 10.A 15.C 20. B

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