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English
Quarter 1 – Module 5:
Forms of Literary Writing
( EN9WC-Ie-9)
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English
Quarter 1 – Module 5 :
Forms of Literary Writing
(EN9WC-Ie-9)

Department of Education • Republic of the Philippines

 FOREWORD

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 What I Need to Know

This Learning Module contains lessons on how learners can successfully compose
different forms of literary writing. It enables students to accomplish different outputs using
guided and independent activities to practice and enhance their capability and knowledge in
writing their compositions.

In this lesson, you are expected to:

a. Identify the different Forms of Literary Writing;
b. Examine samples of literature;
c. Follow the structural elements of each form;
d. Compose different form of literary writing; and
e. Accomplish all tasks responsibly and on time.

What I Know

Directions: Choose the letter of the correct answer and write it on the blank provided after
each question (answer sheet)

1. Literature is subdivided into three classic forms which are:

a. epic, tragedy, comedy
b. poetry, drama, prose
c. lyric, epic, dramatic
d. informative, journalistic, literary

2. A form of literature that contains themes, characters, chapters, and settings

a. prose b. poetry c. drama d. nonfiction

3. What type of writing is written in verses or lines?

a. poetry b. drama c. prose d. nonfiction

4. What type of writing is used in plays or theatrical performances?

a. nonfiction b. poetry c. drama d. prose

5. This is a type of writing that is usually used for chapter books, textbooks, and
newspaper articles. _____
a. prose b. nonfiction c. poetry d. drama

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6. It uses dialogue to tell actors what to say.
a. nonfiction b. prose c. poetry d. drama

7. Paragraphs are found in?

a. poetry b. drama c. prose d. nonfiction

8. What is divided into chapters?

a. drama b. poetry c. prose d. nonfiction

9. What form of literature contains rhyme, rhythm, and meter?

a. nonfiction b. prose c. poetry d. drama

10. A form of literary writing that is divided into scenes.

a. drama b. nonfiction c. prose d. poetry

11. What form of literary writing is the following?

Sick on a journey -
Over parched field
Dreams wander on – haiku
a. drama b. poetry c. prose d. nonfiction

12. What form of literary writing is the following?

“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station
will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”
-David Copperfield (By Charles Dickens)
a. prose b. poetry c. drama d. nonfiction

13. What form of literary writing is the following? _____

“The poor are very great people. They can teach us so many beautiful things.”
Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech (By Mother Teresa)
a. poetry b. nonfiction c. prose d. drama

14. What form of literary writing is the following? _____

My mom
Takes care of me
Always brightens my day
Loves me unconditionally
Blessing
a. drama b. nonfiction c. prose d. poetry

15. What form of literary writing is the following? _____

“Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs;
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes;
Being vex’d a sea nourish’d with lovers’ tears.”
– Romeo (Act I, Scene 1)
a. nonfiction b. prose c. drama d. poetry

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 What’s In

Directions: Write the elements or examples of each Form of Literary Writing by referring to
the pool of words/phrases below. Write your answer on your activity notebook.

POETRY DRAMA PROSE

_______________ _______________ _______________
_______________ _______________ _______________
_______________ _______________ _______________
_______________ _______________ _______________
_______________ _______________ _______________

rhythm rhyme lines/verses

stanzas common writing acts
sentences scenes dialogues
paragraphs stories haiku
essays novels stage direction

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 What’s New

Directions: Read each statement below carefully. Place a T on the blank if the statement is
TRUE, otherwise, write F if the statement is FALSE. Write your answer on your activity
notebook.

1. Poetry, drama, and prose are the elements of literature.

2. A drama is written for the actors who speak through dialogues.
3. Prose uses rhyme and rhythm.
4. Words use in poetry create sounds, rhyme, or ideas.
5. Form of literature talks about structures of poetry, drama, and prose.

What Is It?

As literature opens the door to a diverse society it also paved its way to a rich and
more colorful literary works. Literary forms are like the roots of the literary family tree. The form
of literary writing is simply its structure, how it is constructed, or organized, and it is subdivided
into three classic major forms.

I think poetry is the most creative among all other forms. Because its words
are strung together to form sounds or beautiful rhyming, images and ideas.

However, prose applies a natural flow of speech and ordinary

grammatical structures. It is like your normal everyday speech
but in a written form.

While drama could be your favorite because it is a play written

for theatre, television, radio or film. There are also actors and
actresses who speak through dialogues.

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 What’s More

Guided Activities
Directions: Read the examples carefully then, answer the questions that follow. (NB)
Example 1:

At first, I couldn’t understand

Why should I stay at home with my dad?
I am bored all day
I wanted to see the bay!

Mom is in Manila
Giving her full service to her patients
Not all heroes wear a cape
Some wear masks.

*Poetry is written in lines or verses and stanzas. Stanzas separate the lines just like a
paragraph. Some poems have rhyme. Let’s take the first 2 lines of the poem:

At first, I couldn’t understand

Why should I stay with my dad?

*Notice the last syllable of each line. Since they have the same sound, we call it as
rhyme.
Mom is in Manila
Giving her full service to her patients.

*What about in these lines? Do they have the same ending sound?

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Example no. 2

My dad told me that we are going to the beach this summer. I couldn’t wait to see the
majestic nature and do my favorite summer activity which is underwater diving. One day, my
mom hurriedly went to Manila Hospital, she is a doctor there and before she left, she told us
that she would stay there for long until the pandemic is over. It was a melancholic situation for
us. Everyone in my neighborhood rushed to the groceries to buy food and other essentials,
others went panic buying and hoarding.
My dad and I on the other hand both knelt in prayers. We prayed for my mom and the
other frontliners. I felt comfortable and we began our unstoppable conversation. I noticed the
fine lines on my dad’s cheeks; he is getting old, and I began realizing that this is a good time
to getting to know him more and it’s my turn to take care of him.

*Prose is ordinary language written in sentences and paragraphs, and dialogue is placed
in sentences and paragraphs, enclosed in quotation marks. Use basic grammatical
structures when writing a prose, like indention when starting a paragraph. Starting new
paragraph also indicates another topic, idea or setting is going to be written. Here are
some examples of prose

* essays
* novels
*stories
*articles
*What type of prose is example no. 2?
*How many paragraphs are there in the example of prose?

Example no. 3

(Phone’s ringing)

Richard: Hello, mom?

Mom: Hello, son, how are you and your dad?
Richard: Mom, we’re okay, we’re fine! (exuberant) What about you mom?
Mom: Don’t worry son, everything is under control (smile complacently).
Stay at home, okay?
Richard: Yes mom, and please take care of yourself. (gloomy tone)
Mom: Why is that voice? Richard, mom is a superhero, remember?

Paging doctor De Jesus, paging doctor De Jesus, please proceed to the ER.

Mom: Son, I have to go (hurriedly), there’s an emergency, please tell your dad I love him so
much and I love you, son. Bye. (speaks rushingly)
Richard: (Screamed) Mmmom!!! Wait…! (Dropped call sound effect)

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 *Drama is a play. It may be organized in scenes and acts. Dialogue is not placed in
quotation marks; instead, the character’s name is placed before words an actor should
say. Stage directions provide information about how the stage should look and how
actors should act.

Richard: (Screamed) Mmmom!!! Wait…! (Dropped call sound effect)

*The words written inside the parentheses are examples of stage directions. Scene is
a component of act; it is the smaller portion of the play compared to a whole ACT which
compose of PLOT.

*Define the parts of a Plot.

Climax

Rising Action Falling Action

Exposition Denoument

Independent Activity 1
Directions: Choose the letter of the correct answer. Write your answer on your activity
notebook.

1. Which is an example of prose?

a. short stories b. cinquain
b. ballad d. radio play

2. How does Poetry differ from Prose?

a. Poetry contains acts and scenes while the prose does not.
b. Poetry is written in sentences while prose is written in lines.
c. Poetry contains rhyme in syllables while prose does not.
d. Poetry can be used in news articles while prose cannot.

3. How is drama organized?

a. It is organized through sentences and paragraphs
b. It is organized through verses and stanzas
c. It is organized through Plot
d. It is organized through scenes and acts.

4. How does a dialogue is written in prose?

a. The character’s name is placed before a discourse.
b. The character’s dialogue is enclosed in quotation marks
c. The character’s dialogue is separated in a paragraph form
d. The character’s dialogue is inside the parentheses.

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 5. What is the importance of stage directions in a play?
a. Provides the information about the backdrop
b. To know the narrator’s part
c. To give direction to the actors about how they should look and act.
d. To know the ending of a certain act.

Independent Activity 2

Directions: Provide a suitable ending line/ sentences of the following poem, play dialogue,
and essay. Write your answer on your activity notebook.

We Heal as One (Poem)

Though hardship is on the way

Prayers and unity are the only weapons
Frontliners sacrificing their lives
_________________________

Heal the World (An essay)

There is hope, peace and equality. The world is sick and people are hiding, if this
means a new normal, we cannot do anything. Behind the danger of the circumstances there
are people who risk their own lives to serve others, there are people who do not care about
their wealth just to provide for the needs of others. If this means a new normal, hope is taking
over the humanity and
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_________________________________________________________________________

Helping Hands (Dialogue)

One Monday morning, it is the first month of the ECQ. Santos's family is having
their breakfast.
Father: We cannot go to the market; I have no money left from my previous salary.
Mother: That is okay hon, we still have enough food to sustain us for the whole day.
(Door knocking sound)
Mother: Nina will you please open the door and tell me who’s in there.
Nina: (gently opens the door) Mom, I do not know the person.
The stranger handed Nina a bag full of goods and essential products.
Nina: Mom, come quickly!
Mother: Okay! (Went outside the house and greeted the person) Oh, mayor,
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 What I Have Learned

Directions.: Answer the question below and write your answer on your activity notebook.

What is the importance of studying literature?

_________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________

What I Can Do

Directions: Using your present situation today. Choose 1 form of literary writing and write about
how blessed you are being protected in these trying times. Share your appreciation output in
our group chat in messenger after I check it you have to post on your Facebook. Be guided
with the rubrics below.

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CATEGORY Excellent - 4 Good - 3 Satisfactory - Needs
2 Improvement - 1

THE The student The student The student Students devoted

WRITING devoted a lot of devoted adequate devoted some little time and
PROCESS / time and effort to time and effort to time and effort effort to the
the writing the writing process to the writing writing process. It
process and and worked to get process but was appears that the
EFFORT worked hard to the job done. The not very student does not
make the poem a poem may have thorough. Does care about the
good read. The one or two errors. enough to get assignment. The
poem has no by. There are poem has many
errors. several errors. errors.

TITLE The poem has a The poem has a The poem has a The poem has no
title that relates to title that relates to title title
the poem and the poem
adds interest to
the theme or
message of the
poem

NEATNESS The final draft of The final draft of The final draft of The final draft is
the poem is the poem is the poem is not neat or
readable, clean, readable, neat, and readable and attractive. It looks
neat, and attractive. It may some of the like the student
attractive. It is have one or two pages are just wanted to get
free of erasures erasures, but they attractive. It it done and didn’t
and crossed-out are not distracting. looks like parts care what it
words. It looks It looks like the of it might have looked like.
like the author author took some been done in a
took great pride in pride in it. hurry.
it.

STYLE The poem is The poem is The poem is The poem lacks
written with a written with a written style and the
great sense of defined with style. somewhat with thoughts did not
style. The poem Thoughts are clear style. Thoughts come out clearly
has been well to read and are clear to a on paper.
thought out and understandable. degree.
makes sense to
the reader.

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VOCABULA The poem is filled The poem includes The poem The poem lacks
RY with descriptive many descriptive includes some description and
vocabulary that elements and is descriptive does not allow the
appeals to the appealing. words and reader to visualize
reader. phrases. the poem.

Criteria 1 2 3 4 Score
Focus/Main The essay The essay is The essay is The essay is
Point poorly focused on the focused on the focused,
addresses the topic and topic and purposeful,
topic and includes few includes and reflects
includes loosely related relevant ideas clear insight
irrelevant ideas ideas and ideas

Support Provides little Supports the Supports the Persuasively

or no support main point with main point with supports the
for the main some developed main point
point underdevelope reasons and/or with well-
d reasons examples developed
and/or reasons
examples and/or
examples
Organizatio Little or no Some Organizes Effectively
n & Format organization of organization of ideas to build organizes
(Paragraph ideas to build ideas to build an argument ideas to build
s, an argument an argument a logical,
Transitions) coherent
argument
Language Little or no use Some use of Appropriate Effective and
Use, Style & of elements of elements of use of creative use
Convention style Many style Contains elements of of elements of
s (Sentence errors in frequent errors style Uses style to
structure, grammar, in grammar, correct enhance
word spelling, and spelling, and grammar, meaning
choice, punctuation, punctuation spelling, and Uses correct
grammar, makes the punctuation grammar,
spelling, reader’s with few errors spelling,
punctuation comprehensio punctuation
) n difficult throughout
with very few
errors

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Originality No Very little Sufficient Distinctive
(Expression experimentatio experimentatio experimentatio experimentati
of the theme n nor n to enhance n with on with
in a creative enhancement concepts Does language and language and
way) of concepts No not exhibit usage to usage to
adherence to creativity enhance enhance
the theme concepts concepts
Applies basic Applies
creative skills higher-order
to relay ideas thinking and
creative skills
to relay
complex
ideas

Score: 3 Score: 2 Score: 1

Thought-provoking Has potential but Unclear, or implies

and relevant, requires a harmful message.
1. Theme
development.
substantially
explored.

2. Plot Just complicated Intriguing and fully Too simple, or too

enough, and paced realized. complicated,
well to reach a
or just doesn’t make
dramatic climax.
sense.

3. Characters Features intriguing Original, Flat, vague or cliché

relatable sympathetic
characters. The characters need
protagonist more development.
confronts
a conflict and as a
result is changed in
some small or large
way.

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4. Dialogue Economic. Witty. Serviceable. Gets Unintentionally stiff
Each character’s the point across and contrived.
voice is distinctive. with occasional Sounds like the TV.
flashes of humor or
cleverness.

5. Staging Staging, though Mostly practical and Staging is not

minimalist, effective, but may described, or too
creatively enhances need simplification difficult to stage.
the drama. or clarification.

6. Entertainment Thumbs up! The playwright’s All in all the play,

Value for a (Explain why.) intended effect is though skillful in
Family Show achieved. ways, doesn’t work.

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 Assessment

Directions: PART A. Read each statement below carefully. Place a T on the blank if the
statement is TRUE, otherwise, write F if the statement is FALSE. Write your answer on your
activity notebook.

1. The passage below is an example of Poetry.

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired of waiting,

Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise.
(“If” by Rudyard Kipling)

2. The passage below is an example of Poetry.

Venezuelans come together to provide food for the elderly of Caracas

Julieta, a nonagenarian woman from Venezuela’s capital, Caracas dances with

joy and appreciation each time Vicente delivers a bag of food.

3. The passage below is an example of Drama.

A gentleman visiting Thomas Alva Edison at Menlo Park asked him to give a
motto to his son who was about to enter the business. The great inventor replied,
“Well, I will give him this…” “Never look at the clock.”

4. The passage below is an example of Drama.

Abby: Isn’t the state unemployment rate of 11%?

Monica: It is. I thought that was it was based on, but no, the federal
government made some weird Mathematical formula.

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5. The passage below is an example of Poetry.

Tell me, not in mournful numbers,

Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest!

And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul
(Psalm of Life – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

6. The given lines below contain rhyme.

I am the master of my fate,

I am the captain of my soul.

7. The given Plot below lacks Denouement.

She goes to the pound and begins looking through the cages for her future pet.
At the end of the hallway, she sees a small, sweet brown dog with a white spot on
its nose. At the instant, she knows she wants to adopt.

8. The given passage below has a complete Plot.

Scott wants to be on the football team, but he’s worried he won’t make the
team. He spends weeks working out as hard as possible., preparing for the tryout.
At tryouts, he amazes coaches with his skill as a quarterback. They ask him to be
their starting quarterback that year and give him a jersey. Scott leaves the field,
ecstatic.

9. The scene has the biggest portion of an act.

10. A poem is always written with rhyming words.

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Directions: PART B. Use the story of Romeo and Juliet to accomplish the task given on the
table. Be guided by the criteria. Write your answer on your activity notebook. Refer to what I
can do for the rubrics, page 10-13.

Prose (Short Story) Poem Drama

My Outputs

 Title  Title  Title

Criteria/Structure

 1 paragraph  2 stanzas  Cast of Characters

 min. of 5 sentences  8 lines  Narrator
 Writing a  With Rhyme  Stage Direction
straightforward  One Act
 Follows the parts of a  Follows the parts of
Plot a Plot

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 Additional Activities

Directions: “IMAGE TALK” Interpret the images below using different forms of literary writing.
Write your output on your activity notebook. Refer to what I can do for the rubrics, page 10-
13.

Note: Compose a poem which contains

six lines divided into 2 stanzas. Use
rhyming words to some of the lines.

Note: Compose an essay about this

picture. Your output must limit
to 150-200 words only.
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Note: Compose a play with only
one act. Use two characters
and one setting.

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Assessment: What’s New: What’s In: What I Know:
1. T 1. T Poetry- rhythm, rhyme, 1. b
2. F 2. T lines/verse, stanzas 2. a
3. F 3. F 3. a
4. T 4. T Prose – sentences, common 4. c
5. T 5. T writing, paragraphs, stories, 5. a
6. F essays, words, dialogues 6. d
7. T What’s More 7. c
8. T Drama – scenes, dialogues, 8. c
Independent Act.
9. F acts, stage directions. 9. c
No. 1
10. F 10. a
1. a 11. b
2. c 12. a
3. d 13. c
4. a 14. d
5. c 15. c
Answer Key
References
G. Francis Xavier Ph. D, “Enjoy what you are Doing, The world’s best Inspiring Stories,
2009, page 66.

Your Dictionary. “Example of Poetry”, accessed

2020,https://examples.yourdictionary.com/types-of-poetry-examples.ht

Study.com. “Literary Forms”, accessed May 2020 https://study.com/academy/lesson/literary-

forms-genres-how-they-affect-meaning.html

Global Voices. “Media stories”, accessed May 2020, globalvoices.org –(other refs, CMS)

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