Republic of the Philippines

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Region I
San Fernando City
La Union

ACTIVITY SHEETS IN CREATIVE WRITING

QUARTER I, WEEKS 2-3

MELC: Identify the various elements, techniques, and literary devices

in specific forms of poetry.
 K to 12 BEC CG: (HUMSS_CW/MP11/12c-f-6)

Objectives:
Specifically, the learners are expected to:
1. Analyze the various elements of poetry, such as diction, tone, form, genre, imagery,
figures of speech, symbolism, theme, etc.
2. Identify the techniques used in poetry.
3. Understand and appreciate poetry as a literary art form.

Prepared by:

VINCENT R. CAPANANG
SST- II
Name:_________________________________________ Grade: _______________

Date: __________________________________________ Section:______________

Title of the Activity: THUMB IT!

Most Essential Learning Competency: Identify the various elements, techniques, and
literary devices in specific forms of poetry.

K to 12 BEC CG: (HUMSS_CW/MP11/12c-f-6-7)

Directions: Put thumbs up before the sentence if you like it because

it is factual or true, thumbs down if it is not.
 ____ 1. Prose is more
condensed than poetry. ____ 6. A lyric is a form of
verse, often a narrative
set to music.

7. Anapaest is an

____ ____
2. Poetry is a language unstressed syllable
arranged in lines. followed by a stressed
syllable

3. Poetry is written in

____ ____
condensed language, 8. End rhymes don’t
stylized syntax, and have a scheme.
figures of speech.

4. Poetry includes the

____ ____
kind of detail and 9. Spenserian is a seven
explanation found in line stanza, also called
prose. septet.

10. A caesura is essential

____ ____
5. Some elements are in establishing a
exclusive to a specific predictable means of
type of poetry. emphasis.

Name:_________________________________________ Grade: _______________

Date: __________________________________________ Section:______________

Title of the Activity: What am I?

Most Essential Learning Competency: Identify the various elements, techniques, and
literary devices in specific forms of poetry.

K to 12 BEC CG: (HUMSS_CW/MP11/12c-f-6-7)

Directions: Identify what is described in each number by writing your answer on

the space provided inside the dialog box.
 1. the emotional 10. consists of two
response of the 9. contains quatrains
successive lines and an additional line
reader to a work
______________ ______________ ______________

8. used by the poets to

2. the central idea or bring out the musical
message in a poem

What
quality of language, to
______________ emphasize ideas, to
create mood, and to
reinforce subject matter
______________

3. reflects the
am
feelings of the writer 7. vivid pictures or
______________
I? concepts in the mind
of the writer
______________

4. the pattern or beat 6. the word people

5. comparable to the
of stressed and use to talk about the
paragraph in a prose
Name:_________________________________________ Grade:way
_______________
unstressed syllables poems talk to
in a line of poetry the reader
______________
Date: __________________________________________ Section:______________
______________ ______________

Title of the Activity: MIX AND MATCH

Most Essential Learning Competency: Identify the various elements, techniques, and
literary devices in specific forms of poetry.

K to 12 BEC CG: (HUMSS_CW/MP11/12c-f-6-7)

Directions: Match Column A with Column B to complete the meaning of the

given
 elements, techniques and literary devices of poetry. Write your answer before the
number.

Column A Column B

_____11. This is used by the poets to bring out the

a. Meter
musical quality of language, to emphasize ideas,
to create mood, and to reinforce subject matter.
b. Conventional Poetry
_____12. It refers to the repetition of a regular
rhythmic unit in a line of poetry.
c. Foot
_____13. It is a strong pause within a line, and is
often found alongside enjambment. d. Tanaga
_____14. It refers to the unit of meter.
_____15. It is a stressed syllable followed by the e. Sonnet
two unstressed syllable
_____16. This form of conventional poem f. Theme
consists of fourteen lines that traditionally follows
a strict rhyme scheme and specific structure. g. Acrostic
_____17. It is a type of poem that contains regular
patterns of rhyme and meter. h. Caesura
_____18. It is a type of Filipino poem consisting
i. Iamb
of four lines with seven syllables each with the
same rhyme at the end of each line.
j. Rhythm
_____19. It is a type of poem in which the first
letter, syllable or word of each line, paragraph or
k. Dactyl
other recurring feature in the text spells out a
word or a message.
_____20. It consists of an unstressed syllable
Answer
followedKey:
by a stressed syllable.

I.

1. Thumbs down 6. Thumbs down

2. Thumbs up 7. Thumbs down

3. Thumbs up 8. Thumbs down

4. Thumbs down 9. Thumbs up

5. Thumbs up 10. Thumbs up

II.

1. Poetry
2. Theme
3. Tone
4. Rhythm
5. Stanza
6. Voice
7. Figures of Speech
8. Rhythm
9. Rhyme Royal
10. Couplets

III.

1. J
2. A
3. H
4. C
5. K
6. E
7. B
8. D
9. G
10. I

References:

Books

Bernales, R. (2017).Creative writing: A journey for SHS students and aspiring creative writers.

Malabon City: Mutya Publishing House,Inc.

Gasulas et. al (2017).Creative Writing. Quezon City: Phoenix Publishing House, Inc.
Solis, P. N. (2017). Creative Writing. Makati City: Diwa Learning Systems Inc.
Internet

The Thumbs are back! Thumbs Up/Thumps Down. (n.d.). http://www.thejeffersonchronicle.com

Name:_________________________________________ Grade: _______________

Date: __________________________________________ Section:______________

Title of the Activity: COMPARE AND CONTRAST!

Most Essential Learning Competency: Identify the various elements, techniques, and
literary devices in specific forms of poetry.

K to 12 BEC CG: (HUMSS_CW/MP11/12c-f-6-7)

Directions: Using the Venn diagram below, show your understanding of the relationship
between prose and poetry by identifying their similarities and differences.
Name:_________________________________________ Grade: _______________

Date: __________________________________________ Section:______________

Title of the Activity: GUESS THE LITERARY DEVICE!

Most Essential Learning Competency: Identify the various elements, techniques, and
literary devices in specific forms of poetry.

K to 12 BEC CG: (HUMSS_CW/MP11/12c-f-6-7)

Directions: Identify the poetic devices used in the following sentences. Write your

answer in the space provided before the number.

__________ 1. He saw the cost and hauled off.

__________2. Rolling through the field in the

dead

of winter

__________3. Love is a red, red rose.

__________4. I left my punch card on the lunch yard.

__________5. The grass grew green in the graveyard.

__________6. You could paddle through the spittle in the bottle.

__________ 7. I was awoken by the pleasing scent of the bacon as it wafted down the hallway.

__________8. I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny but we can have a lots of good fun that is
funny.

__________ 9. The leaves danced in the wind.

__________ 10. Children! Where have you gone?

__________ 11. The storm was a raging bull.

__________ 12. The sound of water falling in time drip drip drip.

__________ 13. Acorns mourned the return of autumn.

__________ 14. What a lift of the gun BANG!

__________ 15. You blind mouths! How can you be so dull?

Name:_________________________________________ Grade: _______________

Date: __________________________________________ Section:______________

Title of the Activity: POEM-TASTIC!

Most Essential Learning Competency: Identify the various elements, techniques, and
literary devices in specific forms of poetry.

K to 12 BEC CG: (HUMSS_CW/MP11/12c-f-6-7)

Directions: Read the following poem, and answer the questions that follow.

The West Wind

It’s a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds’ cries;

I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes.

For it comes from the west lands, the old brown hills,

And April’s in the west wind, and daffodils.

It’s a fine land, the west land, for hearts as tired as mine;

Apple orchards blossom there, and the air’s like wine.

There is cool green grass there where men may lie at rest;

And the thrushes are in song there, fluting from their nest…
Questions:

1. What is the rhyme scheme?

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2. In the first line, what literary device do the words “warm wind, the west wind” reflect?

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3. What sound device is used in the words, “my eyes”?

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4. What is the line metre being used?

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5. In the last line, which word is an example of onomatopoeia?

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6. What is being compared in line six?

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7. Is the comparison in line six a simile or metaphor?

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8. What kind of poem is this?

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9. What senses are appealed to in the first line?

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10. What kind of description appeals to one or more of the five senses?

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Answer Key:

I.

Answers may vary.

Possible answer:

Similarities of Prose and Poetry

Prose and poetry share same qualities like lyricism and use of some literary devices like simile,
metaphor, personification, symbolism, paradox, imagery and alike. Hence, prose can be
sometimes poetic in nature, poetry is infrequently common, as in some modern poems.

Differences of Prose from Poetry

When we say prose it is a form of language that has no formal metrical structure while poetry, on
the other hand, is a literature that recalls a rich artistic perception of experience or an emotional
response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm. It is differ in
appearance seeing that prose is arranged in paragraph/s or dialogue whilst poetry is arranged in
verse or lines.

II.
11. Assonance
12. Enjambment
13. Repetition
14. Rhyme
15. Alliteration
16. Consonance
17. Imagery
18. Rhythm
19. Personification
20. Apostrophe
21. Metaphor
22. Echo/ Onomatopoeia
23. Pathetic Fallacy
24. Onomatopoeia
25. Transferred Epithet
III.
1. aabbccdd
2. Alliteration
3. Onomatopoeia
4. Couplets
5. Fluting
6. Air to wine
7. Simile
8. Lyric
9. Touch and Sound
10. Imagery
References:

BOOKS

Bernales, R. (2017).Creative writing: A journey for SHS students and aspiring creative writers.
Malabon City: Mutya Publishing House,Inc.

Gasulas et. al (2017).Creative Writing. Quezon City: Phoenix Publishing House, Inc.

Solis, P. N. (2017). Creative Writing. Makati City: Diwa Learning Systems Inc.

INTERNET

Encyclopaedia Britanica. (n.d). https://www.britannica.com/art/poetry

Reading Worksheets. (n.d). https://www.ereadingworksheets.com/figurative-language/poetic-

devices/

Thinglink.(n.d.). Similarities and Differences of Prose and Poetry.

https://www.thinglink.com/scene/714663603839434754

University of Maine system. (n.d). media.usm.maine.edu/~jbeaudry/EDU603/Poetry_

Unit_Test.pdf
Name:_________________________________________ Grade: _______________

Date: __________________________________________ Section:______________

Title of the Activity: Let’s try AROSTIC!

Most Essential Learning Competency: Identify the various elements, techniques, and
literary devices in specific forms of poetry.

K to 12 BEC CG: (HUMSS_CW/MP11/12c-f-6-7)

Directions: Compose a free verse poem for the word POETRY integrating your personal
qualities. Write your composition in the scroll.
Name:_________________________________________ Grade: _______________

Date: __________________________________________ Section:______________

Title of the Activity: Let’s HONE your skills!

Most Essential Learning Competency: Identify the various elements, techniques, and
literary devices in specific forms of poetry.

K to 12 BEC CG: (HUMSS_CW/MP11/12c-f-6-7)

Directions: Answer the question, why is poetry important in our world today?

Write your insights in at least three to five sentences

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Name:_________________________________________ Grade: _______________

Date: __________________________________________ Section:______________

Title of the Activity: Go with the PACK!

Most Essential Learning Competency: Identify the various elements, techniques, and
literary devices in specific forms of poetry.

K to 12 BEC CG: (HUMSS_CW/MP11/12c-f-6-7)

Directions: Choose a poem by a well-known local or foreign poet. Read the poem and
analyze it based on the elements indicated in the table. Answers should be written in
sentence form.

Title and Author

Theme

Tone and Diction

Voice

Stanza, Meter, Rhyme, and

Caesura

Sound
 Rhythm, Line Break, and
Enjambment

Figures of Speech

Answer Key:

I.
Answers may vary.

II.
Answers may vary.

III.
Answers may vary.

References:

Books
Bernales, R. (2017).Creative writing: A journey for SHS students and aspiring creative writers.
Malabon City: Mutya Publishing House,Inc.

Gasulas et al. (2017).Creative Writing. Quezon City: Phoenix Publishing House, Inc.

Solis, P. N. (2017). Creative Writing. Makati City: Diwa Learning Systems Inc.

Internet

Shutterstock. (n.d.) Old sheet of paper for writing and feather with an inkwell on a wooden table.
Vintage retro style background. https://www.shutterstock.com/search/poem+background

Name:_________________________________________ Grade: _______________

Date: __________________________________________ Section:______________

Title of the Activity: SUBJECT MATTERS!

Most Essential Learning Competency: Identify the various elements, techniques, and
literary devices in specific forms of poetry.

K to 12 BEC CG: (HUMSS_CW/MP11/12c-f-6-7)

Directions: Figure out the theme of the following selections: (5 pts. each)

1. “First of all,” he said, “if you can learn a simple trick, Scout you’ll get a long a lot better with
all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point
of view…until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”

- Harper Lee’s, “To Kill a Mockingbird”

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2. “I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years
without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or
wrong in the head.”

-William Golding, “The Lord of Flies”

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3. Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no; it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests, and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

-William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 116”

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4. “It is an evil voyage, I tell thee. If Ahab has his way, neither thee nor me, nor any member of
this ship’s company will ever see home again. I fear the wrath of God.”

- Herman Melville, “Moby Dick”

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5. “I do not know what I am afraid of; all I know is that I had bad dream. I dreamt you returned
from the town, and when you took off your cap I saw that your hair was quite grey.”

-Leo Tolstoy, “God Sees the Truth, But Waits”

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Name:_________________________________________ Grade: _______________

Date: __________________________________________ Section:______________

Title of the Activity: CONVENTIONAL FORM!

Most Essential Learning Competency: Identify the various elements, techniques, and
literary devices in specific forms of poetry.

K to 12 BEC CG: (HUMSS_CW/MP11/12c-f-6-7)

Directions: Determine the form of the following conventional poems.

1. If your feet were as many

As hundreds of centipede’s
None should have been left behind
When you left for your exile.
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2. An ocean voyage
As waves break over the bow
The sea welcomes me
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3. Despair not, my beloved.

Tonight, light bids you adieu.
Tom‟row, t‟will smile at you.

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4. Coming from the woods

A bull has a lilac spring

Dangling from a horn

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5. When I was christened

They held me up

and poured some water

out of a cup.

The trouble was

it fell on me,

and I and water

don’t agree

A lot of christeners

stood and listened:

I let them know

that I was christened

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6. Winter is cold

It is winder

Never hot

There are children playing

Especially freezing
Really cold

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7. “A noiseless patient spider,

I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated,

Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,

It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself,

Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.

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8. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

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9. I’m ready to take on a taut strand,
but I’d rather take the slack one,
for I could go far that way

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10. A touch of cold in the Autumn night –

I walked abroad,
And saw the ruddy moon lean over a hedge
Like a red-faced farmer …

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Name:_________________________________________ Grade: _______________

Date: __________________________________________ Section:______________

Title of the Activity: EXPRESS to IMPRESS!!

Most Essential Learning Competency: Identify the various elements, techniques, and
literary devices in specific forms of poetry.

K to 12 BEC CG: (HUMSS_CW/MP11/12c-f-6-7)

Directions: What is the significance of knowing the similarities and differences of

prose and poetry??

Write your insights inside the graphic organizers.

.
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Significance of
knowing the
similarities and
differences of prose

.
Answer Key:
I.

Answer may vary.

II
1. Tanaga

2. Haiku

3. Diona

4. Haiku

5. Sonnet

6. Acrostics

7. Free Verse

8. Sonnet

9. Diona

10. Free Verse

III.
Answer may vary.

References:
Books

Bernales, R. (2017).Creative writing: A journey for SHS students and aspiring creative writers.
Malabon City: Mutya Publishing House,Inc.

Gasulas et. al (2017).Creative Writing. Quezon City: Phoenix Publishing House, Inc.

Solis, P. N. (2017). Creative Writing. Makati City: Diwa Learning Systems Inc.

Internet

Browning, Elizabeth B. (n.d.). https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/how-do-i-love-thee-

by-elizabeth-barrett-browning

Lumbera, Bienvenido. (n.d.) https://www.tagaloglang.com/diona/

Hulme, T.E. (n.d.) Autumn. https://interestingliterature.com/2019/12/10-classic-examples-of-

free-verse/