Dear Students,

During the long suspension of classes, you will be given an offline task to ensure that you do
not
fall behind on any topics. Complete and pass the assigned challenge on April 11, 2024.
See the task below. On a one whole sheet of paper answer. Answer directly.
Thank You have a blessed day.

Thank you, Ma
’am Rica.
 Pretest
Directions: Read the questions carefully and encircle the letter of the
correct answer.

1. It is narrating of a happening or series of connected events whether realistic

or imaginative.
 A. Story C. Oral Traditions
B. Storytelling D. Communication

2. This genre in Creative Writing is inspired on factual information to create

fictional scenes, personas and happenings into prose forms.
A. Nonfiction C. Fiction
B. Poetry D. Drama

3. This fictional work has the length of 65,000 words. What type of fiction is it?
A. Short Story C. Spenserian
B. Novel D. Novelette

4. Applying these will lead to a successful fictional story.

A. Elements of Fiction C. Literary Device
B. Plot D. Symbolism

5. They refer to the person or figure who portrays in the story.

A. Antagonist C. Protagonist
B. Plot D. Character

6. What type of fiction if a story has 15,000 words?

A. Short Story C. Novelette
B. Novel D. Drama

7. This element composes the pivot events that happen in a narrative.

A. Point of View C. Exposition
B. Plot D. Setting

8. This kind of character changes throughout the story.

A. Protagonist C. Dynamic
B. Foil D. Confidante

9. What type of plot that reveals complexity of event till a conflict is showed?
A. Falling Action C. Conflict
B. Resolution D. Rising Action

10. "I love the colorful clothes she wears and the way the sunlight plays upon
her hair."- The Beach Boys
What type of point of view does this portray?
A. Third Person C. First Person
B. Second Person D. All-knowing

11. This literary device uses a language to go beyond the usual meaning to relay
a wholesome comparison, colorful writing and meaning.
 A. Denotative Language C. Flashbacking
B. Figurative Language D. Allusion

12. She is a Pulitzer awardee and the author of The Flower.

A. Alice Walker C. Merlie Alunan
B. Susan Anthony D. Edith L. Tiempo

13. Our situation is like picking up shards of glass with bare hands. This statement
is an instance of .
A. Metaphor C. Hyperbole
B. Personification D. Simile

14. "The leaves fell early that year." What literary technique does this line tell?
A. Flashbacking C. Foreshadowing
B. Personification D. Allegory

15. This is the event in the story which has the major turning point.
A. Plot C. Tragedy
B. Climax D. Rising Action

Lesson Fiction as a Genre

What I Need to Know

After completing this module, you are expected to:

 define fiction as a genre of literature;
  identify the elements of fiction and literary devices; and
 compose a fictional work using the essential facets of fiction.

What’s In
Concept Map
Directions: Think of ideas relating to the word "FICTION." Write them in the
shapes provided.

FICTION

What’s New
People are fond of telling stories. These may derive from realistic or imaginative
sources. Storytelling is a basic human activity that dates back to the beginning of
time. It is the narrating of a happening or series of connected events. Our
fascination
of stories has remained despite how our world has become technologically
advanced.

Fiction
In Creative Writing, fiction is one of the genres which lures more readers. Fiction is
defined as "a series of imagined facts which illustrates truths about human life."
Writers are inspired on factual information to create fictional scenes, characters and
events. Presently, fiction has been available on book forms as well as on internet
platforms that reach more enthusiasts.

Types of Fiction
Fictional works are classified into three, namely: short story, novelette and novel
considering its complexity and character development.

Short story is a brief artistic form of prose fiction which centers on a single main
incident and intends to produce a single dominant impression. This literary work
does not exceed 20,000 words. It is small yet complete and self-contained. Some
literary works that fall under it are folklore, myths and legend.

A novelette length is less than 75,000 words. Though it lacks the page count of a
full-length novel, novelettes basically tell a complete story. Novelettes tend to have
a greater focus on character development, worldbuilding, and plotting than short
stories.

A novel being an extensive prose narrative which reaches 100,000 words and
counts hundreds of pages. Due to its length, it can develop more characters, more
complicated plots, more elaborate settings, and more themes. Naming a few novels,
Les Miserables (Vitor Hugo), J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series and Moby Dick by
Herman Melville.

Elements of Fiction
Knowing the basic components of fictional writing is a key to a successful story. Here
are principal elements of fiction.

A. Character
An imagined person or figure who plays in a story. A character is not only limited to
humans. They serve as models who a writer uses to portray an entirety of a story.

Types of Characters
• Protagonist is the center of the story. Major events unfold to this
character. Example: Little Red Riding Hood, Crisostomo Ibarra (Noli) 
Antagonist serves as the opposite of the main character.
Example: The Fox, Padre Salvi

• Flat as a character does not change much or at all throughout the story.
 • Foil character reflects the opposite of a character in a story.
• Dynamic Character is someone who changes throughout the story.
Learning and developing of this figure is evident in the story.
Example: Crisostomo Ibarra (Noli Me Tangere)
• Confidante is someone or something the main character receives
comfort and trust. Example: Elias (Noli Me Tangere)

B. Plot
This refers to the major events that move the action in a narrative. It is the sequence
of major events in a story.

Parts of Plot
• Exposition is the beginning of the story, revealing characters,
background and setting.
• Rising Action shows events in the story which become complicated till a
conflict is revealed. There are two types of conflict such as Internal and
External Conflict. Internal conflict is a struggle in one's self that is
Character vs Self. External conflict is a struggle with outside forces. It has
three subtypes such as Man vs Man, Man vs Nature and Man vs Society.

• Climax is the peak of the story which evokes heighten emotions and urgent
actions. It is a situation where a choice must be made that will affect the
rest of the story.
• Falling Action is the part where a resolution begins, and complication
starts to fall into place.
• Resolution is the ending of the story. Showing how the conflict is solved.

C. Point of View
It pertains to the narrator in the story, the vantage point from where readers
observe. Types of Point of View are the following:
 • First Person POV refers as narrator is participant in the action- uses
pronouns I or we. The narrator may either be a major or minor
character.
• Second Person POV uses to tell a story to another character with the
word ‘you’.
• Third Person POV is the most common point of view. It uses pronouns
“he”, “she”, and “they” - employs a nonparticipant narrator who can usually
move from place to place to describe action and report dialogue.
• All-knowing point of view (Omniscient) sees into the minds of all
characters, moving from one character to another when needed.

D. Setting
That combination of place, historical time, and social milieu that provides the general
background for the characters and plot of a literary work. The general setting of a
work may differ from the specific setting of an individual scene or event. The different
aspects to consider are as follows: the place- geographical location, time – historical
period, time of day, year, etc., weather condition (rainy, sunny, stormy),social
conditions (daily life of the character, customs ,costumes, mannerisms etc.) and
mood or atmosphere (cheerful or eerie).

E. Theme
The central and dominating idea (or ideas) in a literary work. The term also indicates
a message or moral implicit in any literary work. For example, The Hobbit by J.R.R.
Tolkien tells the tale of a homely hobbit who sets off on an important quest showing his
courage.

Literary Techniques in Fiction Writing

Fiction writing is a colossal feat. However, this has given a lighter weight upon
imploring techniques to make it more appealing and spellbinding for readers and
prospect ones. Let us spill the beans.

Literary techniques are strategic methods a writer employs to convey a story in the
manner they envision. These are allegory, symbolism, foreshadowing, flashbacking,
and figurative languages.

Allegory pertains to the symbolic representations of truths or generalizations about

human existence. Allegories are characters and events in the story that evoke
hidden meanings or messages. For instance, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
by C.S. Lewis is a religious allegory. In it, we find that Aslan the lion represents
Christ or God, the White Witch represents evil, and Edmund represents Judas
Iscariot as the betrayer.

Symbolism is used when word, object, action or figures/characters in the story

means other than its literal meaning. As examples, an owl connotes wisdom,
weighing scale represents justice and alike.
Foreshadowing is a literary device in which a writer reveals an advance clue of
what is to come later in the story.

Flashbacking as a literary technique presenting a memory set in the past.

Figurative language refers to a language which transcends from typical manner and
definition to relay a complex meaning, vivid writing, or comparison. These are the
following: simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, synecdoche, and
onomatopoeia. These literary devices have been used explicitly to achieve creative
writing.

What I Can Do

Directions: Using the story written by Alice Walker “The Flowers”, complete the
table on fictional work analysis. Identify the type, elements and literary devices of this
fictional work. Compose sentences in filling out the table.

The Flowers
Alice Walker
It seemed to Myop as she skipped lightly from hen house to pigpen to smokehouse
that the days had never been as beautiful as these. The air held a keenness that
made her nose twitch. The harvesting of the corn and cotton, peanuts and squash,
made each day a golden surprise that caused excited little tremors to run up her
jaws.

Myop carried a short, knobby stick. She struck out at random at chickens she liked,
and worked out the beat of a song on the fence around the pigpen. She felt light and
good in the warm sun. She was ten, and nothing existed for her but her song, the
stick clutched in her dark brown hand, and the tat-de-ta-ta-ta of accompaniment,

Turning her back on the rusty boards of her family’s sharecropper cabin, Myop
walked along the fence till it ran into the stream made by the spring. Around the
spring, where the family got drinking water, silver ferns and wildflowers grew. Along
the shallow banks pigs rooted. Myop watched the tiny white bubbles disrupt the thin
black scale of soil and the water that silently rose and slid away down the stream.

She had explored the woods behind the house many times. Often, in late autumn,
her mother took her to gather nuts among the fallen leaves. Today she made her
own path, bouncing this way and that way, vaguely keeping an eye out for snakes.
She found, in addition to various common but pretty ferns and leaves, an armful of
strange blue flowers with velvety ridges and sweet suds bush full of the brown,
fragrant buds.
By twelve o’clock, her arms laden with sprigs of her findings, she was a mile or more
from home. She had often been as far before, but the strangeness of the land made
it not as pleasant as her usual haunts. It seemed gloomy in the little cove in which
she found herself. The air was damp, the silence close and deep.

Myop began to circle back to the house, back to the peacefulness of the morning. It
was then she stepped smack into his eyes. Her heel became lodged in the broken
ridge between brow and nose, and she reached down quickly, unafraid, to free
herself. It was only when she saw his naked grin that she gave a little yelp of
surprise.

He had been a tall man. From feet to neck covered a long space. His head lay
beside him. When she pushed back the leaves and layers of earth and debris Myop
saw that he’d had large white teeth, all of them cracked or broken, long fingers, and
very big bones. All his clothes had rotted away except some threads of blue denim
from his overalls. The buckles of the overall had turned green.

Myop gazed around the spot with interest. Very near where she’d stepped into the
head was a wild pink rose. As she picked it to add to her bundle she noticed a raised
mound, a ring, around the rose’s root. It was the rotted remains of a noose, a bit of
shredding plowline, now blending benignly into the soil. Around an overhanging limb
of a great spreading oak clung another piece. Frayed, rotted, bleached, and
frazzled– barely there–but spinning restlessly in the breeze. Myop laid down her
flowers.

And the summer was over.

TYPE OF FICTION
CHARACTERS: (specify what
type and briefly describe)
 PLOT (label the five parts of
plot)

POINT OF VIEW

SETTING

CONFLICT

THEME (sentence)

LITERARY DEVICES

What I Have Learned

Directions: Fill in the missing terms to complete the paragraph.
A box of choices is provided for you.

ability literary devices drama fiction short story

types writer novel elements expertise
novelette capability non-fiction stories

One of the genres of literature is . It is defined as to make believe or

not true .A has the options on how lengthy his/her
literary piece will be. If I were one, I would choose . My option has
been based on my . I learned that applying the
and
of fiction are keys for effective literary works.
 What’s More

I. Direction: Read the statement carefully and identify whether it is a BLUFF or

FACT. Write your answer on the space provided.

1. Storytelling is an essential human activity.

2. Vitor Hugo authored Moby Dick.
3. Confidante reflects the opposite of a character in a story.
4. The ending of a story is called resolution.
5. Omniscient uses the pronoun "you" in narration.
6. Social conditions in setting present the status of the character in
that era.
7. One of the literary techniques uses simile in writing.
8. Fiction is released on book forms alone.
9. Foreshadow as a literary device enables the past to play.
10. Protagonist plays as primary character.

II. Directions: Read the statements carefully and write the desired answer on
the crossword puzzle.

Scoring: 1 correct word=1 point

III. Directions. Compose a mini fictional work (original one) employing the
elements and literary devices in fiction writing. Write the story on a separate
sheet.

CATEGORY 5 4 3 2 1
The story The story The story
The story exhibits the exhibits fairly lacks the The facets
exhibits all elements of the elements vital of
CONTENT the fiction writing of fiction elements fiction are
elements of with minimal writing with . Literary not used.
fiction inconsistency obvious devices
writing. . Literary irregularities. are
Literary devices are Literary unclearly
devices are satisfactorily devices are used.
strategicall used. passably
y used. used.

The story’s The story’s The story’s The

ORGANIZATO flow is flow is structure is structure Minimal
N smooth. sustained yet present yet of the efforts are
Transitiona fluency is sustaining is story is done
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for the
are well met. . met.
storymaking
employed. .
Diction is
very
evident.
 The story is The story The story is The story
an original exhibits less done yet is plain. Few
Creativity one. The of an original concept is efforts are
work is concept partially done.
though copied.
evidently
smartly done.
crafted
intelligibly
and
creatively.
Length 200 -500 200 below 100- 75 74 – 50 50 below
words words words
 Post Test

Directions: Using a separate sheet of paper, write the CAPITAL LETTER of the
correct answer for each item. Label your paper as Post Test- Module 4
in Creative Writing.

1. This literary work can reach 20,000 words which is self-contained and complete.
A. Novella C. Novel
B. Short Story D. Fiction
2. "When it thunders, the world is clearing its throat. “This statement is an
example of what type of figurative language.
A. Synecdoche C. Simile
B. Metaphor D. Personification
3. "Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare demonstrates how love can be
such a driving force. “This statement is an example of which among the
elements of fiction.
A. Setting C. Theme
B. Plot D. Character
4. People in Tagaytay were ravaged by the Taal Volcano's eruption. What kind
of conflict is present?
A. Man vs Man C. Character vs Self
B. Man vs Society D. Man vs Nature
5. "You shall witness the momentous in his career." Which among the point of
view does this line pertain to?
A. Omniscient C. First Person
B. Second Person D. Third Person

6. "A comely lady has passed my way wearing a plain blouse and floral print
skirt." This statement is usually presented on which among the parts of the plot.
A. Exposition C. Climax
B. Rising Action D. Resolution

7. They refer to the intelligible methods used by writers to relay a story vividly.
A. Tone C. Figurative Language
B. Foreshadowing D. Literary Techniques

8. "This place has shifted 360 degrees. From bungalow houses to towering
buildings, horse-drawn wooden carriages to auto-pilot cars. “This statement is
an example of which among the elements of fiction.
A. Setting C. Point of View
B. Plot D. Character
9. Two stocky men deliberately fight for sparring. What kind of conflict is portrayed?
A. Character vs Self C. Man vs Man
B. Man vs Society D. Man vs Nature

10. Lord of the Rings may represent the war which arose between English and
the German in 1914. This literary device is a sample of .
A. Symbolism C. Foreshadowing
B. Allegory D. Figurative Language

11. Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort are primary characters in the novel by J.
K. Rowling. What types of characters are they?
A. Foil and Dynamic C. Protagonist and Antagonist
B. Confidante and Protagonist D. Flat and Antagonist

12. The Flower by Alice Walker is an example of what type of fiction.

A. Novel B. Short Story C. Novelette D. Parable

13. This novel shares an account of a voyager who desired to take revenge of
a whale.
A. Les Miserables C. Noli MeTangere
B. Harry Potter D. Moby Dick

14. "People stoned her to death for this tradition to keep." What conflict does
this scene show?
A. Man vs. Society C. Man vs Nature
B. Man vs. Himself D. Man vs Man

15. This genre of Creative Writing has invented superficial characters and events
in prose narratives to explicitly relay truths about human life.

A. Non-fiction C. Poetry
B. Fiction D. Drama

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