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Imagery refers to the “mental pictures” that readers experience when reading
literature.
Diction is the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or in writing.
Word choice is the most powerful element of style for you to understand.
12. Onomatopoeia is the use of words that imitate the sounds associated with
the objects or actions they refer to.
Example: The tick tock of the clock made the party stop.
Learning Competency
MELC: Use imagery, diction, figures of speech, and specific experiences to evoke
meaningful responses
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Directions
Hello, learner! You are about to check your learning in using imagery, diction,
figures of speech and specific experiences to evoke meaningful response.
LEARNING CONTRACT
AGREEMENT: By signing the contract, you are hereby accepting the responsibility to
finish the activity package and submit to your teacher (---------------------------) on
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LOAD.
Directions. Activity1: The following statements are lines from the text, “How my
Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife” by Manuel E. Arguilla. Read carefully the
given lines from the text and determine whether the author used imagery,
diction, figures of speech and specific experience in each line from the text.
Write IM for imagery, DI for diction, FS for figures of speech and SE for
specific experience on the space provided for.
____ 1. She stepped down from the carretela of Ca Celin with a quick delicate grace.
She was lovely. She was tall. She looked up through my brother with a smile
and her forehead was on a level on his mouth.
_____2. She was fragrant like a morning when papayas are in bloom.
_____3. He swallowed and brought up to his mouth more cud and the sound of his
insides was like a drum.
_____4. I laid on Labang’s massive neck and said to her. “You may scratch his
forehead now.”
ENGAGE
Directions. Activity 2: Identify the imagery used in the following lines whether it is
sense of sight, smell, taste, touch or hearing.
Example: She was fragrant like a morning when papayas are in bloom.(sense of
smell)
1. . I laid on Labang’s massive neck and said to her. “You may scratch his
forehead now.”
2. “Look Noel, yonder is our star!” Deep surprise and gladness were in her voice.
Very low in the west, almost touching the ragged edge of the bank was the
star, the biggest and the brightest in the sky.
3. He must have taught her the song because she joined him, and her voice flowed
into his like a gentle stream meeting a stronger one.
4. There was no light in my father’s room. There was no movement. He sat in the big
arm chair by the western window, and a star shone directly through it
ADVANCE
Directions . ACTIVITY 3: Focusing on diction, study the lines of the story “How my
Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife using the given guide questions below.
Guide Questions:
1. Does the author use diction simply and clearly in the lines below? Why or why not?
She stepped down from the carretela of Ca Celin with a quick delicate grace.
She was lovely. She was tall. She looked up through my brother with a smile
and her forehead was on a level on his mouth.
2. Do the words used by the author in the statement below convey message clearly to
the readers? Why or why not?
He swallowed and brought up to his mouth more cud and the sound of his
insides was like a drum
3. Do you find difficulty in understanding the message of each of the lines of the text?
Explain.
Answer:
Wheeler enumerates all the things that Jim Smiley would bet on anything saying that
he even bet on Parson Walker’s wife who had fallen ill.
1. Answer: _________________________
He never changed his voice from the gentle flowing key to which he turned the
initial sentence.
2. Answer:__________________________
Jim Smiley had a dog that he would fight when this dog fought, his underjaw’d stick
like the forcastle steamboat……his teeth would…. shine savage like the furnaces.
3. Answer:__________________________
At the door I met the sociable Wheeler returning and he button-heeled me.
4. Answer:__________________________
When speaking of his frog, Smiley says that it is, “as solid as a glob of mud.”
5. Answer: _________________________
Mechanics The learner The learner The learner The learner The learner
used correct used correct used correct commits commits
spelling of spelling of spelling of misspelled misspelled
words, used words, used words, used words, used words, used
punctuations punctuations punctuations punctuations punctuations
correctly in correctly in correctly in the incorrectly in incorrectly,
the ideas the ideas ideas the ideas in the ideas
conveyed in conveyed conveyed conveyed are not
the given deviates in deviates and creates clearly
topic. the topic lacks any of confusion and conveyed
given. the diction, lacks any of and totally
imagery, the diction, lacks any of
figures of imagery, the diction,
speech and figures of imagery
specific speech and ,figures of
experiences in specific speech and
the topic given. experiences in specific
the topic given. experiences
in the topic
given.
Reference:
PowerPoint presentation, Diction, Imagery, Figures of Speech, Evelyn L. Pacquing, St.
Paul University Philippines, May 30-31,2016
Webliography:
https://www.slideshare.net/RoxanneAmorsolo/how-my-brother-leon-brought-home-a-
wife-39630411
https://examples.yourdictionary.com
https://en.m.wikipedia.org>wiki
https://www.thoughtco.com
https://www.enotes.com
Activity 2:
1.Sense of touch
2. Sense of sight
3. Sense of hearing
4. Sense of sight
5. Sense of sight, sense of smell
Activity 3:
1.The author used words simply and clearly because the message conveyed is
understood easily by the reader.
2.The author used words clearly and correctly which made the readers understand the
message conveyed by the author and there are no words/message that are duff9cult to
understand by the readers.
3. None at all. Yes because I find it hard for me to understand the message of the
author in the story.
(Learners vary in their answers
Activity 4
1.hyperbole
2.metaphor
3.simile
4.metaphor
5.simile
Prepared by:
ALLAN F. DELELIS
Teacher II, Claveria School of Arts and Trades