Creative Name of Student: Academic Track-

Writing GAS/ HUMSS Strand

Q1 Week 3 Grade and Section: Jollibee F. Torres, Ph.D.

Most Essential Learning Competency: Identify the various elements, techniques and
literary devices in specific forms of poetry
Specific Objectives:
1. Define poetry
2. Enumerate the characteristics of poetry
3. Differentiate poetry to other forms of creative writing

Poetry is a word composition arranged in a rhythmic pattern. It is used to express one’s

creative thoughts and feelings through a specialized and heightened language.

Poetry is the most misunderstood form of writing. It is also arguably the purest form of writing.
Poetry is a sense of the beautiful; characterized by a love of beauty and expressing this
through words. It is art. Like art it is very difficult to define because it is an expression of what
the poet thinks and feels and may take any form the poet chooses for this expression.

Characteristics of Poetry
• It expresses creative thoughts in briefer way than a short story and novel.
• It uses elements such as rhythm, imagery, verse, and meter and poetic devices.
• It has a musical quality.
• It has a structure.
• It is used to express intense personal emotions and experiences.
• The content of a poem shows the universal truth and connotes a deeper meaning.
• It does not use everyday language.

If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking

If I can stop one heart from breaking,

I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
-Emily Dickinson
Written Works
ACTIVITY #1
Directions: Think of the poems you’ve read in the past. Can you remember one you’ve
enjoyed? Think of the lyrics of your favorite song and consider the following question: Why
the lines seem memorable for you? What makes them interesting? Write your answer on the
table below.
Lines from a poem Why are the lines memorable Characteristics of poetry you
and interesting? have found from the lines
 Lyrics from a song Why are the lines memorable Characteristics of poetry you
and interesting? have found from the lyrics

ACTIVITY #2
Directions: Read the following sonnet from William Shakespeare and answer the given task.
Take note of the vocabularies below and their meanings:
1. impediments – challenges, difficulties, hindrances
2. alters- changes, modifies
3. tempests- violent storms,
4. wandering- roaming, moving away
5. sickles- cutting blade
6. doom- judgment, fate

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 sickles 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 write, nor no man ever loved.

In one good paragraph, share insights what the sonnet says something about love. (10 pts)
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ACTIVITY #3:
Directions: Answer the following questions comprehensively. (5 points each)
1. How is poetry different from other forms of writing?
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2. If you will write a poem about something, what would be your subject and why?
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 Creative Name of Student: Academic Track-
Writing HUMSS Strand
Q1 Week 3 Grade and Section: Jollibee F. Torres, Ph.D.

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

Specific Objectives:
1. Enumerate the elements of poetry
2. Define rhyme, meter, theme, tone and mood
3. Exercise the use of different themes and tones in making a poem
4. Appreciate the importance of theme and tone in writing poetry

Read this: Poetry is a combination of words in lines, rhyme, tone, voice, theme, language
and emotion which makes it a creative means to liberate the poet’s thoughts and feelings.
While can freely write a poem, it is still necessary to know the different elements of poetry.

Dust of Snow (Robert Frost)

The way a crow A
Shook down on me B
The dust of snow A
From a hemlock tree B
Has given my heart C
A change of mood D
And save some part C
Of a day I had rued. D

What have you noticed on the lines of the poem?

Rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhyming words at the end of each line. Not all poetry has
a rhyme scheme. They are not hard to identify, but you must look carefully at which words
rhyme and which do not.

Theme is the summarized statement containing the main thought or meaning of the poem.
Tone refers to the attitude of the writer that influences the emotional response of the reader
which is the mood.

The basic unit of poetry is the line. It is the line of words in poetry. It serves the same
function as the sentence in prose, although most poetry maintains the use of grammar within
the structure of the poem. Most poems have a structure in which each line contains a set
amount of syllables; this is called meter. The verse is the line of a poem arranged in a
metrical pattern.

Lines are also often grouped into stanzas. The stanza in poetry is equivalent or equal to the
paragraph in prose. Often the lines in a stanza will have a specific rhyme scheme. It is
referred as the unit of poetic lines. These are the different stanza forms:
Couplet – 2 lines Sestet- 6 lines
Tercet- 3 lines Septet- 7 lines
Quatrain- 4 lines Octave- 8 lines
Quintet-5 lines

Rhyme is the link between music and poetry, it adds music quality to the poem which gives
the readers pleasure.
Directions: Underline the rhyming words in each line/ stanza.
“Here Captain! Dear Father! This arm beneath your head!
It is some dream that on the deck,
You’ve fallen cold and dead.”
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary.”
“In the sun and in the snow,
Without pleasure, without pain,
On the dead oak tree bough.”

Read this:
Head-dead are true rhyme because the rhyme occurs on ending words of the line

Dreary and weary are internal rhyme because the rhyme occurs within the line

Snow and bough are off rhyme or slant rhyme because the sounds of the words are alike.

Metrical patterns can be accentual meter where the lines have same number of stresses
and varied count of syllables. Syllabic meter where the lines have the same number of
syllables and varied count of stresses. Accentual-syllabic meter have them same number
of syllables, both stressed and non-stressed and arranged in fixed order in the lines. Free
verse have irregular number of stresses and syllables in the lines of the poem.

WRITTEN WORK:
Directions: List down all the thoughts you have right now. These may be about a person,
studies, food, books, music, travel, feelings etc. Write your words inside the box.(10 pts)

PERFORMANCE TASK:
Directions: Write a one-stanza poem with 6 lines. Use the words you have listed in the
previous activity. Make sure that the elements such as theme, tone, rhyme, line and meter
are present in your poem. (20 points)
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Based on the poem that that you have written, answer these questions:
What is the theme? What is your tone? What are the rhyming words in the poem? What
lines and meters were employed? (10 points)
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Creative Name of Student: Academic Track-
Writing HUMSS Strand
Q1 Week 3 Grade and Section: Jollibee F. Torres, Ph.D.

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

Specific Objectives:
1. Enumerate the genres of poetry
2. Familiarize with the different forms of poetry and their characteristics
3. Write a poem based on specific form

Read this: Considering genres of poetry, there are three types of poetry and these are the
following:
TYPE CHARACTERISTICS SAMPLE FORMS
Descriptive poem Focuses on details Didactic poem
Narrative poem Tells a story Epic, ballad
Lyric poem Expresses the feelings and Ode, sonnet, dramatic
thoughts of the poet monologue

There are different traditional forms of poetry, and each form has its specific characteristic
that makes it different from the other. The following are the different forms of poetry and their
characteristics:

FORMS CHARACTERISTICS
Blank verse Poem with consistent length and meter but do not employ rhyme
Haiku Brief Japanese verse form consisting of three lines and 17 syllables
1st line - 5 syllables 2nd line- 7 syllables 3rd line- 5 syllables
Epic A long narrative poem about a hero
Limerick A poem consisting of 5 lines where lines 1, 2 and 5 and lines 3 and 4
are rhyming
Free verse A poem without standard rhyme patterns, lines length
Sonnet A poem consisting of iambic pentameter; has 14 lines and makes use
of rhyme; subject is love
Ode A tribute to someone or something, often uses exalted language in
praise or celebration and can be serious or humorous.
Ballad A narrative, rhyming poem or song, usually rich with imagery
(emotionally charged visual images) and originated from folk songs
that told exciting or dramatic stories.
Elegy Expressing grief or mourning for someone who has died; somber,
serious, ending on a peaceful note

Answer this question comprehensively.

Among all the forms of poetry given above, which you are most familiar with and captured
your interest and why? (5 points each)
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Directions: Choose a genre of poetry and write a poem on the genre chosen and its specific
form. Write your poem on the box and explain why you chose to write a poem of that genre.

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Title
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Genre and its specific form

Explain why you chose the genre and form:___________________________________

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Rubric in grading the poem:

Indicator Rating (1-5)
The poem written is based on the form
chosen.
The content of the poem is clear.
It is in proper form with correct grammar,
spelling and proper punctuations.
The poem captures the interest of the
readers
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Creative Name of Student: Academic Track-
Writing HUMSS Strand
Q1 Week 2 Grade and Section: Ms. Jollibee F. Torres

INTRODUCTION

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

Objectives:
1. Enumerate the literary and sound devices used in poetry
2. Appreciate the use of figurative language and sound devices in poetry
3. Write a short poem which uses literary and sound devices

DEVELOPMENT
Language in poetry is flowery, expressive and interesting. It should make the poem
appealing to the readers. Writers use different literary devices and sound devices to
increase reading pleasure.

ALLITERATION - The repetition of the initial letter or sound in two or more words in a line.
Example: Silvery snowflakes fall silently
Softly sheathing all with moonlight
Until sunrise slowly shows
Snow softening swiftly.

ONOMATOPOEIA- Words that spell out sounds; words that sound like what they mean,
sounds from nature
Example: Ticking, tucking.
Head is rocking.
Tippy toeing.
Quietly. Snap, crack.

ASSONANCE- The repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in stressed

syllables, as in blade and maze.
Example: The morning was cold with a bold statement
The morning dew was wet and set in the ground
You could taste the spring paste fill the air
It made you feel real, refreshed and lively

CONSONANCE- The repetition of similar consonant sounds at the ends of accented

syllables, as in wind and sand.
Example: The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew
The furrow followed free.

REPETITION- Using the same key word or phrase throughout a poem.

Example: Time to spend;
time to mend.
Time to hate;
time to wait.

ENGAGEMENT
Directions: Read the poem carefully and answer the task that follows:

ACQUAINTED WITH THE NIGHT (Robert Frost)

I have been one acquainted with the night
I have walked out in the rain and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.

I have looked down the saddest city lane.

I have passed by the watchman on his beat.
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet

When far away an interrupted cry
Came over houses from another street,

But not to call me back or say goodbye;

And further still at an unearthly height,
One luminary clock against the sky

Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right,

I have been one acquainted with the night.

Analyze and list down the literary and sound devices used in each stanza of the
poem.

STANZA 1

STANZA 2

STANZA 3

STANZA 4

STANZA 5

ASSIMILATION
Directions: Write a short poem about nature with 2 stanza forms with quatrain.Use the sound
devices learned from development part. Underline the words used and identify the sound
device used.

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1st Stanza
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Date:______Time:_________Parent’s/Guardian’s Name and

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Creative Name of Student: Academic Track-

Writing HUMSS Strand
Q1 Week 2 Grade and Section: Ms. Jollibee F. Torres

INTRODUCTION

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

Objectives:
1. Enumerate various experimental texts
2. Discuss the specific forms of poetry
3. Appreciate the poems under experimental texts

DEVELOPMENT

CONCRETE/ SHAPE POETRY- a poem whose layout or typography implies the subject of
the poem
CINQUAIN/ DIAMOND POEM- is a poem that resembles a diamond. It has 5 lines and begins
with one word. The 2nd line has two adjectives that describe that word. The 3rd has three
verbs. The 4th line is a phrase that goes deeper into the topic. The 5th line gives either a
synonym for the first word, or a word that encompasses the whole poem.

Sister
Smart, Outgoing
Loving, playing, laughing
Always in for some fun
Friend

LIST POEM/ CATEGORY POEM- refers to poems written as lists, this can be in full
sentences or as single words. This could be a list or inventory of items or categories like
people, places or ideas. It often includes repetition and can have rhyme or not.

Thanksgiving
Thank you for the cats.
Thank you for the stars.
Thank you for the chocolate.
Thank you for the cars.
Thank you for the baseball.
Thank you for the books.
Thank you for the firemen.
Thank you for the cooks.
Thank you for the family.
Thank you for the kissing.
Thank you for everything.
I must be missing.

PROSE POEM- is a kind of poetry that is written in paragraphs which contains language
play, images and with instances of poetic meter.

PERFORMANCE POETRY/ SPOKEN POETRY- its significant characteristic is that it is

being recited in front of the audience in public spaces. It uses vernacular language and
appealing oral elements like music, recordings and other elements of signification.

ENGAGEMENT
Students will watch a sample performance/ spoken poetry and will analyze the poetry by
accomplishing the activity below:

ASSIMILATION
Create one cinquain/diamond poem and one shape/concrete poem with different subjects to
write about.