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CREATIVE WRITING
Quarter 1 – Module 1
IMAGERY
AND FIGURES OF SPEECH
English – Grade _
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Introductory Message
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 Let Us Learn!

In this module, we will master the competency of using imagery, figures of

speech, and specific experiences to evoke meaningful responses from readers
(HUMSS_CW/MP11/12-Ia-b-4)

After going through this module, you are expected to:

1. identify the types of imagery;
2. differentiate figures of speech;
3. share experiences; and
4. use imagery, figures of speech, and specific experiences to evoke meaningful
responses from readers in writing a short paragraph

Let Us Try!

Before we go to our journey in this module, let us assess ourselves first by

honestly answering the following below.

Directions: Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the
question. Write your answer before the number.

1. This type of imagery pertains to odors or scents.

a. Visual Imagery c. Gustatory Imagery
b. Olfactory Imagery d. Auditory Imagery

2. What type of imagery is used in this statement, “She has the most soulful set of
eyes.”?
a. Auditory Imagery b. Tactile Imagery
c. Gustatory Imagery d. Visual Imagery

3. This type of imagery stimulates the sense of smell.

a. Tactile Imagery c. Auditory Imagery
b. Visual Imagery d. Olfactory Imagery

4. This type of imagery pertains to physical textures or the sense of touch.

a. Auditory Imagery c. Olfactory Imagery
b. Gustatory Imagery d. Tactile Imagery

5. This type of imagery pertains to flavors or taste.

a. Gustatory Imagery c. Tactile Imagery
b. Auditory Imagery d. Olfactory Imagery

6. What type of imagery is used in this statement, “The howling of dogs woke the
baby last night.”?
a. Tactile Imagery c. Auditory Imagery
b. Olfactory Imagery d. Visual Imagery

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7. It refers to words or phrases which have a different meaning from its literal or
ordinary meanings.
a. Fables b. Figures of Speech c. Imagery d. Riddles

8. “Her hair is as black as charcoal.” What is the figure of speech used in the
statement?
a. Metaphor b. Simile c. Personification d. Assonance

9. “She sells sea shell by the sea shore.” What is the figure of speech used in the
statement?
a. Assonance b. Metonymy c. Alliteration d. Hyperbole

10. What is the figure of speech that shows repetition of lines of verse of the same
vowel sound?
a. Antonomasia b. Paradox c. Assonance d. Oxymoron

11. What is the figure of speech that uses a part of an object to represent a whole, or
inversely naming a whole to signify the part?
a. Metaphor b. Synecdoche c. Apostrophe d. Epithet

12. “My friend can eat those fast food burgers everyday for the rest of his life.” What
is the figure of speech used in the statement?
a. Hyperbole b. Allusion c. Synecdoche d. Metaphor

13. “You are my sunshine.” What is the figure of speech used in the statement?
a. Simile b. Personification c. Metaphor d. Hyperbole

14. “The waves danced towards the rocks.” What is the figure of speech used in the
statement?
a. Personification b. Metaphor c. Onomatopoeia d. Apostrophe

15. What is the figure of speech that shows a combination of adjacent words that
have meanings that are diametrically opposite or contradictory?
a. Oxymoron b. Paradox c. Epithet d. Eponym

Let Us Study

One of the easiest ways to start writing is to describe things. Unknowingly,

when we use description in saying anything about something or someone, we are
already using imagery. These descriptive details are called images and sensory
impressions or symbols.

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 The use of imagery appeals to our 5 senses; sense of Sight, Hearing, Smell,
Taste, and Touch.

TYPES OF IMAGERY

VISUAL IMAGERY – a picture in words; something that is concrete or can be seen

Example:
The starry night sky looked so beautiful that it kept me awake.

AUDITORY IMAGERY – something that you can hear through your mind’s ears

Example:
We were welcomed by the chirping of the birds.

OLFACTORY IMAGERY – pertains to odors, scents, or the sense of smell

Example:
The aroma of the coffee is enough to keep me awake.

GUSTATORY IMAGERY – pertains to flavors or sense of taste

Example:
Last night, I ate the sweetest mango in my whole life.

TACTILE IMAGERY – pertains to physical textures or the sense of touch

Example:
The softness of the silk caressed my skin.

OTHER TYPES OF IMAGERY

THERMAL IMAGERY – something that depicts temperature

Example:
When we went to Alaska, everyone wore thick clothes because of the
merciless coldness of the place.

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EROTIC IMAGERY – something that suggests sensation and feeling

Example:
I shivered when he suddenly whispered in my ear.

ACTIVITY 1
Directions: Identify the type of imagery used in each sentence.

1. His wife ordered a luscious wine for dinner.

2. The group of friends were all annoyed by the clicking of pen.
3. Today’s weather was too hot to handle.
4. Krishna’s dark eyes showed her forming tears.
5. My grandfather’s rough hands is an evidence of years of hard work.

Directions: Write a sentence that uses one of the types of imagery.

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FIGURES OF SPEECH

There are a lot of literally tools in the English language that we can use to
make our writings more creative. It enables us to write and understand sentences
beyond the lines.

Figures of speech refers to words or phrases which have a different meaning

from its literal or ordinary meanings.

SIMILE – comparison that uses the expressions “like” and “as”

Example:
The girl is as heavy as the table.

PERSONIFICATION – giving human qualities to inanimate or non-living objects

Example:
The wind whispers serenely through the silent time.

METAPHOR – indirectly compares two things that belong to different

classes

Example:
You are the air that keeps me breathing.
I’m a mirrorball.

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HYPERBOLE - the deliberate exaggeration of a fact or truth for the sake of
emphasis

Example:
I’ll love you dear, I’ll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain

-Joseph Conrad, The Heart of Darkness

ONOMATOPOEIA – a word that mimics the sound of the object or action it

refers to

Example:
The buzzing bee flew towards the scared child.

METONYMY - the substitution or replacement of the name of a concrete

object or thing that is closely associated or connected with a word or
concept for the word or concept itself

Example:
Can I have a hand here?

SYNECDOCHE - the use of a part of an object to represent a whole, or

inversely naming a whole to signify the part
- similar with Metonymy to some extent but they are not the
same at all

*Metonymy refers to a thing by substituting another thing

closely associated with but not necessarily a part of it

Example:
His parents bought him a new set of wheels.

ASSONANCE - the repetition of lines of verse of the same vowel sound

Example:
“…on a proud round cloud
in white high night.”

-E.E. Cummings, If A Cheerfulest Elephantangelchild Should Sit

ALLITERATION - the repetition of a consonant sound

Example:
“Peter Piper picked a peck if pickled peppers."

ALLUSION - the use of indirect reference of people, place, thing or idea

regarding cultural, mystical, or political concept

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 Example:
Our new classmate is an Einstein in examinations.

ANTONOMASIA - a kind of metonymy in which a phrase takes the place of a

proper name

Example:
Harry Potter is the “boy who lived”.

APOSTROPHE - call to a person, a thing or a personified idea which is not

really present

Example:
“Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye
really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as
nought; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness.”

-Mary Shelly, Frankenstein

EPITHET - the use of an adjective or descriptive phrase that is deployed to

point out the distinctive characteristic of deity, person, animal,
or thing

Example:
That man is the swift-footed Achilles!

EPONYM - refers to the name of a person or deity commonly associated with

some widely recognized trait or characteristic

Example:
Athena for wisdom
Odysseus for adventure
Penelope for faithfulness

OXYMORON - combination of adjacent words that have meanings that are

diametrically opposite or contradictory

Example:
Look at yourself in the mirror. Act naturally.

PARADOX - a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or even

illogical but which can actually be true

Example:
“My father, this undoing is what binds us.”
-Myrna Peña-Reyes’s, Breaking Through

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ACTIVITY 2
Directions: Below are example sentences that use one specific figure of speech.
Identify the figure of speech used.

______1. I was in awe of the small crowd that was present.

______2. You look like my next mistake.
______3. This is the beginning of the end.
______4. We will celebrate my parents’ anniversary next month in the Queen City of
the South.
______5. Mr. Padilla asked his class to lend him an ear.
______6. Waves and wind! You are the only thing between me and him.
______7. That newcomer is said to be the Picasso of their batch.
______8. Shush! Keep quiet!
______9. The stars in the night sky are intently looking down at me like they know
my deepest secrets.
______10. My family is the problem I wouldn’t mind having.

Let Us Practice

Directions: Read the text below and identify the lines that use imagery.
Label the line with the type of imagery used.

After All
Lang Leav

I felt you again in my sleep last night. Like always my dreams of you are
peripheral. An overheard conversation where your name is mentioned; a letter in my
hand I try desperately to read before I wake. A Styrofoam coffee cup and half-read
book on an empty table where I knew you were just minutes before. It’s as though
my dreams are a mirror of my waking world, like finding myself walking down on the
street where I could have sworn I caught a glimpse of you, only to look again and
realize it wasn’t you after all.

Let Us Practice More

Directions: Read the poem below and identify the lines that use figure
of speech. Label each line with the figure of speech employed.

‘The Haiyan Dead’ — A poem

by Merlie Alunan

do not sleep.
They walk our streets
climb stairs of roofless houses
latchless windows blown-off doors

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 they are looking for the bed by the window
cocks crowing at dawn lizards in the eaves
they are looking for the men
who loved them at night the women
who made them crawl like puppies
to their breasts babes they held in arms
the boy who climbed trees the Haiyan dead
are looking in the rubble for the child
they once were the youth they once were
the bride with flowers in her hair
red-lipped perfumed women
white-haired father gap-toothed crone
selling peanuts by the church door
the drunk by a street lamp waiting
for his house to come by the girl dreaming
under the moon the Haiyan dead are
looking for the moon washed out
in a tumult of water that melted their bodies
they are looking for their bodies that once
moved to the dance to play
to the rhythms of love moved
in the simple ways--before wind
lifted sea and smashed it on the land--
of breath talk words shaping
in their throats lips tongues
the Haiyan dead are looking
for a song they used to love a poem
a prayer they had raised that sea had
swallowed before it could be said
the Haiyan dead are looking for
the eyes of God suddenly blinded
in the sudden murk white wind seething
water salt sand black silt--and that is why
the Haiyan dead will walk among us
endlessly sleepless—

Source: [Link]
poem/story/

Let Us Remember
Directions: Make a venn diagram to compare and contrast Imagery and
Figures of Speech.

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 Let Us Assess

Directions: Write your answer on the space provided before the number.

I. Identify the imagery used or described in the sentence.

___________1. “The stone fell with a splash in the lake.”

___________2. “The moonlight bathed the room in ethereal light”
___________3. This imagery is something that depicts temperature.
___________4. “It was the most beautiful appearance of the stars.”
___________5. “Jeffrey’s sweet smell triggered Sharon’s imagination.”

II. Identify the figure of speech used or described in the sentence.

___________1. It is the repetition of lines of verse of the same vowel sound.

___________2. “I’ve told you a million times to wash the dishes.”
___________3. “All of the girls are fighting for the crown.”
___________4. “His being bisexual is an open secret to everyone.”
___________5. It is the use of an adjective or descriptive phrase that is deployed to
point out the distinctive characteristic of deity, person, animal, or thing.
___________6. “I thought heaven can’t help me now.”
___________7. “I know one thing: that I know nothing.”
___________8. “My mother is the strength that keeps me going.”
___________9. It refers to the name of a person or deity commonly associated with
some widely recognized trait or characteristic.
___________10. It is a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or even
illogical but which can actually be true.

Let Us Enhance

Directions: Compose a 3-paragraph essay with 3-5 sentences per

paragraph about your experiences during this pandemic. Imagery and
Figures of Speech must be applied.

Let Us Reflect

Directions: In 5 sentences, share the importance of using imagery and

figures of speech in writing.

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Let us Practice!
• I felt you again in my sleep last night. Like always my dreams of you are
peripheral. - Erotic
• An overheard conversation where your name is mentioned; - Auditory
• a letter in my hand I try desperately to read before I wake. - Visual
• A Styrofoam coffee cup and half-read book on an empty table where I knew
you were just minutes before. - Visual
• It’s as though my dreams are a mirror of my waking world, like finding myself
walking down on the street where I could have sworn I caught a glimpse of
you, only to look again and realize it wasn’t you after all. - Visual
Activity 2 Activity 1 Let Us Try!
1. Oxymoron 1. Gustatory 1. b
2. Simile 2. Auditory 2. d
3. Paradox 3. Thermal 3. d
4. Antonomasia 4. Visual 4. d
5. Metonymy 5. Tactile 5. a
6. Apostrophe 6. c
1.1.
7. Allusion 7. b
8. Onomatopoeia 1. Answer may 8. b
9. Personification vary 9. c
[Link] 10.c
11.b
12.a
13.c
14.a
15.a
Answer key to Activities
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Let Us Remember! Let Us Enhance! Let Us Reflect!
Answers may vary. Answers may vary. Answers may vary.
Let Us Assess!
1. Auditory 1. Assonance 6. Personification
2. Visual 2. Hyperbole 7. Paradox
3. Thermal 3. Metonymy 8. Metaphor
4. Visual 4. Oxymoron 9. Eponym
5. Olfactory 5. Epithet 10. Paradox
Let us Practice More!
• They walk our streets climb stairs of roofless houses latchless windows
blown-off doors - Alliteration
• cocks crowing - Onomatopoeia
• the women who made them crawl like puppies - Simile
• red-lipped perfumed women - Epithet
• white-haired father gap-toothed crone - Epithet
• the Haiyan dead are looking for the moon washed out in a tumult of water
that melted their bodies - Hyperbole
• before wind lifted sea and smashed it on the land - Personification
• in their throats lips tongues - Alliteration
• a prayer they had raised that sea had swallowed before it could be said
• the Haiyan dead are looking for - Personification
• the eyes of God suddenly blinded - Paradox
• in the sudden murk white wind seething water salt sand black silt -
Alliteration
• the Haiyan dead will walk among us - Paradox
• endlessly sleepless— - Hyperbole