Reviewer in Creative

Summary:

Writing Technical
concise, accurate,
Imaginative
imaginative,
Content factual, metaphoric,
straightforward symbolic
LESSON 1: IMAGINATIVE VS. TECHNICAL VS. Audience specific general
ACADEMIC WRITING
inform, instruct, entertain, provoke,
Purpose
persuade captivate
Imaginative Writing
formal, standard, informal, artistic,
 It is the artistic expression through written Style
word. academic figurative
 It is used to express the writer’s ideas and Tone objective subjective
emotions in an artistic manner.
 It uses language that aims to entertain, provoke, Vocabulary specialized general, evocative
or captivate the audience. sequential,
Organization arbitrary, artistic
 It is subjective and emotionally charged. systematic
 Examples
o Poems
o Short stories LESSON 2: SENSORY DETAILS
o Nonfiction essays
o Scripts Sensory details are facts that are collected through the
o Song Lyrics 5 senses.
o Blogs
o Diary Entries
o Personal letters
o Speeches

Technical Writing
 It is objective and unemotional.
 It is straightforward, accurate, and concise. Use sensory details in writing to give the read a clear
 It conveys technical info relating to a specific idea of what you are describing.
field or job.
 There is a standard format and rules. Example:
 It aims to inform, instruct and persuade.
 Examples
o Business letters
o Memoranda
o Resumes
o Formal e-mails
o Proposals
o Reports

Academic Writing
 It is based on solid information and ideas.
 It is factual and informative.
 It aims to persuade, explain, narrate, or LESSON 3: FIGURES OF SPEECH
describe. (write your own examples on the space provided)
 It is limited to the academe.
1. Simile – indirect comparison between two unlike
 Examples
objects using the words like or as.
o Book Report/Review
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o Research Paper
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o Academic Journal
o Thesis and Dissertation
2. Metaphor – a direct comparison of two unlike
o Abstract
things without the use of like or as.
o Essay
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o Any writing assignment given by the
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teacher to be fulfilled by students for
them to pass the subject
3. Hyperbole – an overstatement or exaggeration that
can be used for dramatic effect.
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4. Personification – an inanimate object or animal is
given human qualities or characteristics
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5. Apostrophe – addressing the dead or absent
persons, objects or ideas.
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6. Synecdoche – substitution of part for a whole, a
whole for a part
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7. Metonymy – substitution of one word for another
which is associated with it
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8. Allusion – an author’s reference to a person, place,
event or a piece of literature which he expects his
audience to recognize.
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9. Oxymoron – two contradictory terms
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10. Onomatopoeia – use of words that imitate sounds
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11. Irony – the action of language is in contrast to what
is true or expected
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12. Alliteration – repetition of successive words with
the same beginning consonants.
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13. Assonance – repetitive vowel sounds within a
sentence or phrase
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14. Consonance – repetitive consonant sounds within a
sentence or phrase
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LESSON 4: SONNET 1 BY JOSE GARCIA VILLA
First, a poem must be magical,
Then musical as a sea gull.
It must be a brightness moving
And hold secret a bird’s flowering.
It must be slender as a bell,
And it must hold fire as well.
It must have the wisdom of bows
And it must kneel like a rose.
It must be able to hear
The luminance of dove and dear.
It must be able to hide
What it seeks, like a bride.
And overall I would like to hover
God, smiling from the poem’s cover
Guide questions:
1. How can a poem be magical and musical?
2. Can poems provide brightness?
3. How do poems hold a secret?
4. Are poems slender? Why?
5. What does it mean for a poem to hold fire?
6. Should poems be wise?
7. What does kneeling symbolize?
8. What does it mean to hear the luminance of dove
and deer?
9. Why would God smile on the poem’s cover?
LESSON 5: SONNET 116 BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and
cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Guide questions:
1. What is the meaning of the following:
a. True minds
b. Impediments
c. Alteration
d. Ever-fixed mark
e. Tempest
f. Wandering bark
g. Bending sickle
2. According to Shakespeare, what is love and what is
not love?
3. What do the last two lines mean?
Prepared by Ms. K. Lubong
exclusively for HUMSS 11-2