Creative Writing

Quarter 1
Module 4: Fiction as a Genre

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 Creative Writing

Quarter 1
Module 4: Fiction as a Genre

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About the Module
This module has one lesson: Fiction as a Genre. Learning fiction as a whole
and determining the facets of fiction are significant in writing creatively.
Through these, you are expected to understand fiction, analyze its elements
and techniques while experiencing a wholesome learning.

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 type of fictional work has the length of 65,000 words.
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. This type of fiction story has 15,000 words.
A. Short Story C. Novelette
B. Novel D. Drama

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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. The 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
The type of point of view portrays _________.
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 type of literary technique used in this line -"The leaves fell early that
year."
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

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 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." Draw the graphic
organizer in a separate sheet of paper and fill in the circles with
terms/ideas relevant to fiction.

_________

________ _______

FICTION

_______________ _____________________________

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 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.

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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
It is 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 sto ry.
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.

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 • 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).

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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.

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 What I Can Do

Directions: Complete the Fictional Work Analysis of the story, The Flower
by Alice Walker by identifying the type, elements, and literary
devices of the story. Copy the template given in a separate
sheet of paper.

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 bank’s 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.
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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

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 What I Have Learned

Directions: Fill in the missing terms to complete the paragraph. A box of

choices is provided for you. Write your answers on a separate
sheet of paper.
ability literary devices drama fiction short story
types writer novel elements expertise
novelette capability non-fiction stories

One of the genres of literature is 1)____________. It is defined as to make believe

or not true 2)________. A 3)______________ has the options on how lengthy
his/her literary piece will be. If I were one, I would choose 4)______________.
My option has been based on my 5) _____________. I learned that applying the
6)_____________ and 7)_____________ 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 a separate paper.

__________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.
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__________9. Foreshadow as a literary device enables the past to play.
__________10. Protagonist plays as primary character.

II. Directions. Compose a mini fictional work (original one) employing the
elements and literary devices in fiction writing. Write the story
on a separate sheet. Use the given rubric as your guide.

CATEGORY 5 4 3 2 1
The story The story The story
The story exhibits the exhibits lacks the The
exhibits all elements of fairly the vital facets
Content the fiction writing elements of elements. of
elements of with minimal fiction Literary fiction
fiction inconsistency. writing with devices are not
writing. Literary obvious are used.
Literary devices are irregularities. unclearly
devices are satisfactorily Literary used.
strategically used. devices are
used. passably
used.
The story’s The story’s The story’s The
Organization flow is flow is structure is structure Minimal
smooth. sustained yet present yet of the efforts
Transitional fluency is sustaining is story is are
devices are justifiably questionable. unfairly done for
well met. met. the
employed. story-
Diction is making.
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
work is concept partially are
evidently though copied. done.
crafted smartly done.
intelligibly
and
creatively.
Length 200 -500 200 below 100- 75 74 – 50 50
words words words below
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 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. This is
an example of _______.
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." The point of view this
line pertains to is ________.
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
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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____________..
A. Setting C. Point of View
B. Plot D. Character
9. Two stocky men deliberately fight for sparring. The type of conflict is
_______.
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 an example 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. The types of characters are ______
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." The conflict that
this scene show is _________.
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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Acknowledgements:

Creative Writing – SHS (Specialized Subject)

Quarter 1 – Module 4: Fiction as a Genre

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