This discusses Creative form of writing and how it differs with Academic and Technical forms of writing. It also covers the important literary devices: Imagery and Figures of speech.

1. CREATIVE WRITING

2. Hello!
I am Mrs. Sarah Jane P. Atun
I am your teacher for CREATIVE WRITING subject.
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3. LESSON OBJECTIVES
At the end of this lesson, learners are expected to:
✘ differentiate imaginative writing from among other
forms of writing;
✘ use imagery, diction, figures of speech in writing; and,
✘ create short paragraphs or poetry using imagery,
diction, figures of speech.
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4. What is creative writing?
How is it different from other forms of
writing?

5. creative writing
✘ Is 'the art of making things up’
✘ Expresses the writer’s thoughts and feelings in
an imaginative way
✘ Guided by the writer’s need to express
feelings and ideas
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EXAMPLES OF CREATIVE WRITING
poetry
novel
drama
song
play

7. Technical Writing
• Factual
• Informative, instructional,
persuasive
• Clear, precise, straight-
forward
• Objective
• Specialized vocabulary
What’s the difference?
Creative Writing
• Fictional and imaginative
• Entertaining, provocative,
captivating
• Artistic, figurative, symbolic
• Subjective
• Generalized vocabulary
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Key differences
In creative writing the most of the part is self-created, although the
idea might be inspired but in technical writing the facts are to be
obliged and the note is delivered from leading on what previously other
greats have concluded.
Most commonly, the creative writing is for general audience or for
masses but technical writing is for specific audience.
The creative writing entertains people as it has poetry or some
illustrations or another idea, whereas the technical writing causes
boredom as it follows the strong pattern based on facts and is just to
transfer the information to the audience.
In technical writing the specialized vocabulary, such like scientific terms
and other are used while in creative writing, one can go with slang or
evocative phrases or even something which can be perceived well by
the audience.
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9. Academic Writing
• rigid
• procedural
• purposed purely to
convey knowledge, data
and information
• orderly, organized and
follows a formula
What’s the difference?
Creative Writing
• inspired
• artistic
• entertains with word
pictures, concepts and
deep meaning
• enjoyable to read
• an artform
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Key differences
Style is the chief difference between academic and creative writing.
Creative writing need not adhere to any specific style parameters.
Academic writing is different. Academic writing needs to be structured
and executed adhering to a series of guidelines.
Indeed, so stringent are these guidelines that academic institutions
include these guidelines as part of their curriculum.
Academic writing will earn you A’s, creative writing may get you
published. Academic writing must be taught, but rarely is; creative
writing is optional, but is almost always the focus of writing curricula.
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11. Sensory Experience
Sensory Details in Writing: Definition &
Examples
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12. Sensory Details
✘ The writer's ability to create a gripping and
memorable story has much to do with
engaging our five senses.

13. Sensory Details
✘ Sensory details include sight, sound, touch, smell, and
taste. Writers employ the five senses to engage a
reader's interest. When describing a past event, try
and remember what you saw, heard, touched,
smelled, and tasted, then incorporate that into your
writing.

14. Sensory Details
✘ Sensory details are used in any great story, literary or
not.
✘ Think about your favorite movie or video game.
What types of sounds and images are used?
What do your favorite characters taste, smell, and
touch?
✘ Without sensory details, stories would fail to come to
life.

15. Sensory Details
✘ When sensory details are used, your readers can
personally experience whatever you're trying to
describe, reminding them of their own experiences,
giving your writing a universal feel.
✘ A universal quality is conveyed when the writer is able
to personally connect with the readers.

16. Here's a passage without sensory details:
“I went to the store and bought some
flowers. Then I headed to the meat
department. Later I realized I forgot to
buy bread.”
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Now, does this pull you in? Of course it doesn't. There's
nothing to bring you into the writer's world.

17. Here’s the revised version with additional sensory details:
“Upon entering the grocery store, I headed directly for the
flower department, where I spotted yellow tulips. As I
tenderly rested the tulips in my rusty shopping cart, I
caught a whiff of minty dried eucalyptus, so I added the
fragrant forest green bouquet of eucalyptus to my cart.
While heading for the meat department, I smelled the
stench of seafood, which made my appetite disappear.”
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18. ✘ Sensory details help the reader feel like he or
she was there and create a more intimate
connection to the narrator or writer and a
greater understanding of the text.
✘ Adjectives help set mood and tone in the text
and help establish a strong voice.
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19. Activity 1
Think of your experience going to a theme park
for the first time, or at the beach, or at the mall
arcade.
Describe that experience by writing a short
paragraph. Make sure to include sensory details
by adding adjectives in your statements.
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20. Language in Creative writing:
IMAGERY
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21. WHAT IS IMAGERY?
✘ Imagery is language used by poets, novelists
and other writers to create images in the mind
of the reader
✘ Imagery includes figurative and metaphorical
language to improve the reader’s experience
through their senses

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TYPES OF IMAGERY

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VISUAL IMAGERY
It describes
what we see.
• color
• size
• appearance
• shape
• pattern
It describes
what we hear.
• music
• noise
• silence
AUDITORY IMAGERY
It describes
what we smell.
• fragrances
• scent
• odor
OLFACTORY IMAGERY
It describes
what we taste.
• sweet
• sour
• salty
• bitter
• spicy
GUSTATORY IMAGERY
It describes
what we touch.
• texture
• movement
• temperature
• weight
TACTILE IMAGERY
TYPES OF
IMAGERY

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VISUAL IMAGERY may include:
• Color, such as: burnt red, bright orange, dull
yellow, verdant green, and Robin’s egg blue.
• Shapes, such as: square, circular, tubular,
rectangular, and conical.
• Size, such as: miniscule, tiny, small, medium-
sized, large, and gigantic.
• Pattern, such as: polka-dotted, striped, zig-
zagged, jagged, and straight.

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AUDITORY IMAGERY may include:
• Enjoyable sounds, such as: beautiful
music, birdsong, and the voices of a
chorus.
• Noises, such as: the bang of a gun, the
sound of a broom moving across the
floor, and the sound of broken glass
shattering on the hard floor.
• The lack of noise, describing a peaceful
calm or eerie silence.

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OLFACTORY IMAGERY may include:
• Fragrances, such as perfumes,
enticing food and drink, and blooming
flowers.
• Odors, such as rotting trash, body
odors, or a stinky wet dog.

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GUSTATORY IMAGERY may include:
• Sweetness, such as candies, cookies, and
desserts.
• Sourness, bitterness, and tartness, such as
lemons and limes.
• Saltiness, such as pretzels, French fries, and
pepperonis.
• Spiciness, such as salsas and curries.
• Savoriness, such as a steak dinner or thick
soup.

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TACTILE IMAGERY may include:
• Temperature, such as bitter cold, humidity,
mildness, and stifling heat.
• Texture, such as rough, ragged, seamless,
and smooth.
• Touch, such as hand-holding, one’s in the
grass, or the feeling of starched fabric on
one’s skin.
• Movement, such as burning muscles from
exertion, swimming in cold water, or kicking a
soccer ball.

29. Is Imagery Important?

30. Why is imagery important?
✘ Because we experience life through our senses, a
strong composition should appeal to them through
the use of imagery.
✘ Descriptive imagery launches the reader into the
experience of a warm spring day, scorching hot
summer, crisp fall, or harsh winter.

31. Why is imagery important?
✘ It allows readers to directly sympathize with
characters and narrators as they imagine having
the same sense experiences.
✘ Imagery commonly helps build compelling poetry,
convincing narratives, vivid plays, well-designed
film sets, and descriptive songs.

32. Activity 2
✘ Choose one of the statements below and expand it with descriptive
details into a short paragraph. Incorporate as many of the senses as
you can.
1. The pizza tasted good.
2. Her/his/my room was a mess.
3. She was embarrassed.
4. He drove too fast.
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33. Activity 3
✘ Take one from the following kernel sentences and expand them
using as much detail as you can. Be creative and have fun with this
story.
1. Jack’s phone rang.
2. It was 2:00 in the morning.
3. Jack got out of bed.
4. He got dressed.
5. He lit a cigarette and left his room.
6. A cab waited for him in the street.
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34. MOST COMMON EXAMPLES
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Language in Creative writing:
FIGURES OF SPEECH

35. FIGURES OF SPEECH
✘ A figure of speech is a rhetorical device that
achieves a special effect by using words in a
distinctive way.
✘ It is saying one thing in terms of something
else rather than its literal meaning.

36. FIGURES OF SPEECH
✘ A figure of speech is something which is used
to convey a more deep or intense meaning.
✘ It is a phrase made up of two or more words
which can add effect to the meaning of
something and is used in a non literal sense.

37. MOST COMMON EXAMPLES
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OXYMORON

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ALLITERATION
✘ repetition of an initial
consonant sound

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ANAPHORA
✘ The repetition of the same
word or phrase at the
beginning of successive
clauses or verses.

42. “Unfortunately, I was in
the wrong place at the
wrong time on the wrong
day.”
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43. It rained on his lousy tombstone,
and it rained on the grass on his
stomach. It rained all over the
place.
Chap.2, The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
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APOSTROPHE
✘ directly addressing a
nonexistent person or an
inanimate object as though it
were a living being.

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"Oh, you stupid
car, you never
work when I need
you to," Bert
sighed

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Oh, rose, how
sweet you smell
and how bright
you look!

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ASSONANCE
✘ Identity or similarity in sound
between internal vowels in
neighboring words.
✘ Assonance occurs
when sounds, not letters,
repeat.

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Assonance in "Painter in Your Pocket" by Destroyer
"And I'm reminded
of the time that I was blinded
by the sun
It was a welcome change
From the sight of you hanging
Like a willow

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From the movie My Fair Lady:
"The rain in Spain stays
mainly on the plain."

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EUPHEMISM
✘ The substitution of an
inoffensive term for one
considered offensively explicit.

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"We're teaching our toddler how to go
potty," Bob said.

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His sister spent a night at a
correctional facility.

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HYPERBOLE
✘ An extravagant statement; the
use of exaggerated terms for
the purpose of emphasis or
heightened effect..

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I have a ton of things to do when I
get home.

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METAPHOR
✘ An implied comparison
between two dissimilar things
that have something in
common

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The classroom was a zoo.

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The tornado loomed like Godzilla in
the distance.

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METONYMY
✘ A figure of speech in a word or phrase is
substituted for another with which it's closely
associated; also, the rhetorical strategy of
describing something indirectly by referring
to things around it.

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Can you give me a hand carrying
this box up the stairs?

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Your older neighbor is quite
the silver fox.

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ONOMATOPOIEA
✘ The use of words that imitate the sounds
associated with the objects or actions they
refer to.

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The clap of thunder
went bang and scared
my poor dog.

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Billie loves splashing at the beach.

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OXYMORON
✘ A figure of speech in which incongruous or
contradictory terms appear side by side.
✘ a figure of speech containing words that seem
to contradict each other.

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"Modern dancing is so old fashioned."
- Samuel Goldwyn

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"We're busy doing nothing."
- Bing Crosby

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PARADOX
✘ a statement that appears to contradict itself
but can be true (or at least make sense).

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This is the beginning of the end.

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If I know one thing, it's that I know
nothing.

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PERSONIFICATION
✘ A figure of speech in which an inanimate
object or abstraction is endowed with
human qualities or abilities.

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My alarm clock yells at me to get out
of bed every morning.

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The wildfire ran through the forest at
an amazing speed.

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SIMILE
✘ a figure of speech that directly compares two
different things
✘ usually in a phrase that begins with the words
"as" or "like."

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Her tears were a river flowing
down her cheeks.

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My best friend sings like an angel.

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SYNECDOCHE
✘ A figure of speech in which a part is used to
represent the whole or whole to a part.

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Rey was riding his new wheels.

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The world is not treating me
well.

80. ACTIVITY 4
✘ Write a 4-stanza poem with at least 3 lines
each.
✘ Make sure to use at least 5 different figures of
speech in your poem.
✘ Think of a catchy title for your poetry.
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81. ACTIVITY 5
Poetry Scrap Book
Directions: make a collection of poems.
1. Each poem must be at least eight lines long.
2. Your book and your poems should show
effort.
3. Each poem must demonstrate at least two of
the figures of speech discussed previously.
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82. ACTIVITY 5
Poetry Scrap Book
Rubric: How you will be graded.
Completion 0 --------- 1 --------- 2 --------- 3 --------- 4 --------- 5 --------- 6 -------- 7 -------- 8 -------- 9 -------- 10
Project is not nearly complete. Missing many poems Missing a poem or two Complete
Content 0 --------- 1 --------- 2 --------- 3 --------- 4 --------- 5 --------- 6 -------- 7 -------- 8 -------- 9 -------- 10
Poems show many serious misunderstandings Minor mistakes in understanding Accurate
Quality 0 --------- 1 --------- 2 --------- 3 --------- 4 --------- 5 --------- 6 -------- 7 -------- 8 -------- 9 -------- 10
Sloppiness makes this difficult to read Seems rushed Nicely done with finishing touches
Bonus (extra credit) 0 ------------------ 1 ----------------- 2 ------------------ 3 ----------------- 4 ----------------- 5
Student is capable of much better work Some nice touches, a little extra effort Strong Effort Amazing
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83. REFERENCE
✘ https://www.thoughtco.com/top-figures-of-
speech-1691818
✘ https://7esl.com/figures-of-speech/
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