LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEETS (LAS) IN CREATIVE

NONFICTION
Quarter 1, Week 2
FICTION

Important Reminders: Read and follow directions. Do not put unnecessary markings
on this material. Always follow the standard health protocols.

Overview: In this lesson, using your prior knowledge on literature, you will be exploring
the different elements and conventions of fiction.

Learning Objective
MELC-Based: Analyze the theme and techniques used in a particular text.
Create samples of the different literary elements based on one’s
experience.
Subtask1: Fiction and its basic facts
Code: HUMSS_CNF11/12-Ib-d-4
Specific Objectives:Read a story written by a local writer and identify the different
conventions
and elements used in the literary text.
Write a fictional story about an issue in your community and apply the
different literary conventions of fiction.

Let’s Explore!

Directions: Read the statements carefully and identify whether it is TRUE or

FALSE. Write your answer on the answer sheet.

1. Literature is a category of literary composition determined by literary

techniques, tone, content, or even length.
2. Figurative language is the transfer of a different meaning to a literal word.
3. Drama is a kind of language that says more and says it more intensely than does
ordinary language.
4. Stanza is the shape of the poem.
5. Alliteration is the repetition of the sound of the first consonant in the same line of
a
poem

Learn from here!

Fiction – A believable make-believe story

Basic Facts about Fiction

In fiction, you bring the readers to a new place, meet new people, or witness events simply
by reading. Here are some examples of starting points for writing fiction based on facts:
a. Personal Experience
American Novelist, writer, and journalist Ernest Hemingway wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls
on his experiences of the Spanish Civil War. Hemingway used real people as well as fictional
ones as his characters.
b. Something Heard

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 The Moon and Sixpence is based on the life of the French artist Paul Gauguin. Somerset
Maugham, a British playwright, novelist, and short story writer heard about the artist, who
adopted ‘primitive’ living in the South Pacific, Maugham made the French Gauguin an English
character.
c. Something Seen
American author John Steinback was inspired to write The Grapes of Wrath upon seeing an
old and dilapidated car loaded with poor migrants from Oklahoma.
d. Some questions about life
An English novelist and dramatist, Henry Fielding believe that humans tend to overlook
the goodness in everyone. He portrayed this belief in the novel Tom Jones. Tom Jones is a
character born out of wedlock. Around him, Fielding explored the idea of right and wrong.
e. A strong feeling against something
Mark Twain is an American writer best known for his classic novel, The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin were both written as a
reaction against slavery in the US. Meanwhile, the Philippine national hero Jose Rizal wrote
Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo to condemn the abuses of Spanish colonial and church
activities in the Philippines.
The desire to help poor South Africans inspired the political activist, writer, and 1991
Nobel Prize in Literature recipient Nadine Gordimer to write A Guest of Honour.
f. History as a source
g. Filipino novelist Carlos Bulosan set his novel America is in the Heart during America’s
Great Depression. It was a time of acute economic hardship for Americans, but more so if
one was a Filipino.
h. The Rosales Saga by the Filipino writer Francisco Sionil Jose is a story of five generations
of two families. It spans the Spanish and American periods until the Philippines gained its
independence in 1946.

Intention clarifies the focal point of the writer’s story idea while Purpose clarifies the reasons
behind the writer’s intention.
Character and Characterization
 The people in fiction
 Story often revolves around a protagonist (leading character) and an antagonist
(character opposing the protagonist)
 In writing a short story, it requires focusing on a single quality of the character
 In a novel, many facets of the character may be explored
 Fictional character must feel authentic and credible

Fictionists commonly use the following types of character:

1. Dynamic character – Changes during the course of the story
Scrooge in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is characterized as mean and stingy.
After a visit by three ghosts, he changes his behavior toward his workers by paying them fair
wage, giving them time to rest, and giving gifts.
2. Static character – Consistently the same throughout the story
Dickens could have characterized Scrooge as mean, grumpy, and unfair to the people who
work for him up to the end of the story. Not even the scariest of ghost could change him. If
so, he would be a static character.
3. Round character – Well-developed and can show a variety and even contradictory traits
In Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, the protagonist Humbert Humbert is characterized as
disgusting yet fascinating, deplorable yet brilliant, horrible yet ashamed of his own weak
points.
4. Flat character – Has only one or two traits

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 Had Nabokov not endowed Humbert Humbert with charm and intelligence, he would
simply be a repellent character with a sexual interest in young girls. As such, he would be a
flat character.

The Plot
 The arrangement of events related in a story
 Also known as the storyline
 Provides the story a sense of continuity, speed or pace, and a thematic focus
Elements of a Plot:
 Exposition: Main character is introduced, something happens that compels him or her to
take some actions.
 Conflict: Leads to moment of crisis or great tension; intensifies as the character attempts to
deal with complications or obstacles along the way
 Climax: The story ‘thickens’ while the character is in the middle of it all; Turning point where
the resolution of the conflict is located
 Resolution or denouement: Tension falls as the complications are straightened out and
the conflict is finally fixed
 Outcome of the action: Ending of the story; may be sad or happy ending, or both or neither
Setting
 Where the story happens in a particular time
 Can be implicit or explicit; you can show or you can tell but to grab the reader’s attention, it
is better to show
 You only need to sketch the setting, give it a few details, to allow the readers to establish it
 Clothes can set up the setting. If a character wears shorts and a sleeveless shirt, readers
can infer that one is in a warm place during the day
 Objects can also show the setting. If a character makes a call on the telephone with a long
curly cord and rotary dial, readers can infer that the story is set in the past, or in a place
where people do not have up-to-date technology.
POV: Point of View
 Through whose eyes is the story seen?
 The story changes depending on who is telling it
 POV directs or sways the reader’s understanding of the story
Different POVs:
First Person POV A character within the story; uses I to narrate the story
Second Person When the narrator uses You to tell the story
POV
Third Person POV Through the use of he, she, it, the narrator tells the story
instead of playing a major part in it.
Third Person Similar to the first-person POV; the narrator tells the
limited POV thoughts and actions of one character using third person
pronouns
Third Person The narrator knows the thoughts and actions of every
omniscient POV character in the story and can switch between them freely

Theme
 Underlying meaning of the story
 Helps readers understand life and human condition anew
 Usually implied or unstated
 It is your purpose or intention for writing a story
Tone, Mood and Style: Texture of the Story
Tone

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 Attitude of the narrator toward the characters and events in the story; Enriches the reader’s
connection with the characters and events in the story.
 Some examples of the tone of the narrator can be all-knowing, nervous, brave, bossy,
confident, confrontational, cruel, or kind, etc.
Mood
 Makes the reader feel something while reading the story
 Examples of mood are alarming, sad, happy, exciting, spooky, comical, magical, relaxed, etc.
Style
 Manner by which the writer uses words in characterizing a person or describing an event in
the story
 Similar to the personal signature of the writer where you can detect it by the writer’s choice
of words and the way in which words are arranged and sentences constructed
 Some writers write elegantly even though they use informal words which means they have
relaxed style of writing, some writers prefer to treat their readers as if chatting with them in
person which is called conversational, others write in humorous or scholarly style

Let’s engage and work!

Activity 1: TAYLOR IT!

Directions: Read the song lyrics of Taylor Swift found in the first column and
match it to the literary convention used in the second column.
1. “I looked at you like the stars that shined in the sky.” A. Setting
2. “But on a Wednesday in a café, I watched it begin again.” B. Climax
3. “And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now.” C. Flat Character
4. “And I remember that fight, two-thirty AM. D. First Person POV
As everything was slipping right out of our hands E. Dynamic Character
I ran out crying and you followed me out into the street” F. Outcome of the action
5. “When all you wanted was to be wanted
Wish you could go back and tell yourself what you know now”

Activity 2: FIND IT!

Directions: Read the literary text below and identify the literary convention used.
Discuss your answers.
(Example: Antagonist – The dog who betrayed his master’s order and threatened the cat)
Why dogs wag their tails
A Philippine Folklore

A rich man in a certain town once owned a dog and a cat, both of which were very useful to
him. The dog had served his master for many years and had become so old that he had lost
his teeth and was unable to fight any more, but he was a good guide and companion to the cat
who was strong and cunning.

The master had a daughter who was attending school at a convent some distance from home,
and very often he sent the dog and the cat with presents to the girl.

One day he called the faithful animals and bade them carry a magic ring to his daughter.

“You are strong and brave,” he said to the cat “You may carry the ring, but you must be
careful not to drop it”

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And to the dog he said: “You must accompany the cat to guide her and keep her from harm.”

They promised to do their best, and started out. All went well until they came to a river. As
there was neither bridge nor boat, there was no way to cross but to swim.

“Let me take the magic ring,” said the dog as they were about to plunge into the water.

“Oh, no,” replied the cat, “the master gave it to me to carry.”

“But you cannot swim well,” argued the dog. “I am strong and can take good care of it.”

But the cat refused to give up the ring until finally the dog threatened to kill her, and then she
reluctantly gave it to him.

The river was wide and the water so swift that they grew very tired, and just before they
reached the opposite bank the dog dropped the ring. They searched carefully, but could not
find it anywhere, and after a while they turned back to tell their master of the sad loss. Just
before reaching the house, however, the dog was so overcome with fear that he turned and
ran away and never was seen again.

The cat went on alone, and when the master saw her coming he called out to know why she
had returned so soon and what had become of her companion. The poor cat was frightened,
but as well as she could she explained how the ring had been lost and how the dog had run
away.

On hearing her story the master was very angry, and commanded that all his people should
search for the dog, and that it should be punished by having its tail cut off.

He also ordered that all the dogs in the world should join in the search, and ever since when
one dog meets another he says: “Are you the old dog that lost the magic ring? If so, your tail
must be cut off.” Then immediately each shows his teeth and wags his tail to prove that he is
not the guilty one.

Since then, too, cats have been afraid of water and will not swim across a river if they can
avoid it.

Let’s apply now!

Directions: Choose a problem in your community and write a fictional story of
what would happen if this issue continued. Identify the literary conventions used
in your story.

A scoring rubric will be used for rating the output. Be guided accordingly.

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Answer Key

Let’s Explore!
1. False
2. True
3. False
4. False
5. True

Let’s Engage!
Activity 1
1. D 2. A 3. F 4. B 5. E

Activity 2
Answers may vary.

Let’s Apply now!

Answers may vary.

References:

Lorna Q. Israel, Crearive Nonfiction (Quezon City, 1253 G. Araneta Avenue: Vibal Group, Inc., 2017).

N.d. Fairytalez.Com. Accessed September 14, 2021. https://fairytalez.com/why-dogs-wag-their-

tails/.

Prepared by:
PRINCESS HAYRA B. DE BELEN
Sta. Mesa National High School
Dagami, Leyte