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ANTHONY’S ACADEMY OF GONZAGA LEARNING MODULE 4

SUBJECT: ENGLISH SUBJECT TEACHER: Abigail F. Gumabay
GRADE LEVEL: 9 CP NUMBER: 09752436791
SEMESTER: 1ST Semester EMAIL: [email protected]
SCHOOL YEAR: 2020-2021 FB ACCOUNT: Abigail Fetalcorin Gumabay
I. INTRODUCTION
Normally you hear from people who care say, “Don’t be your own roadblock to success!” This is the
challenge you need to attend to amidst difficulties and sufferings you may experience. This simply means
you need to be aware of, face, and then remove the setbacks, burdens and difficulties which at time upset
you. To fear them is alright but you have to face these fears and live with them courageously. They are
parts of the games you have to play to make your life better. It is always in your hands for you to start
making the most out of these challenges.

II. CONTENT STANDARD

The learner demonstrates understanding of how Anglo- American literature and other types serves as
means of enhancing the self; also how to use processing, assessing, summarizing information, word
derivation and formation strategies, appropriate word order, punctuation marks and interjections to enable
him/ her to demonstrate through a community service brochure.

EN9LT-If-14: Arrive at meaning of words through word formation (clipping, blending, acronym,
compounding, folk, entomology, etc.)
EN9LT-Ic-14: Analyze literature as a means of enhancing the self
EN9LC-Ia3.6: Perform a task by following instructions
EN9VC-Ic-3.8: Infer thoughts, feelings, and intentions in the material read
EN9WC-Ie-9: Compose forms of literary writing

III. TRANSFER
After this module, you are expected to song that advices on how to deal with challenges in life and how
will you overcome those challenges.

IV. DESIGNED TASK

Activity 1: Bucket List

You should try setting goals. You can even start by creating a simple bucket list. A bucket list is a list of
things that you want to do before you die. Do you want to travel all over the world? Be able to try every
food the world has to offer? Climb mountains? List them down on a paper that will serve as your guide.
Create one like the bucket list below.

My Bucket List

Learn to play an instrument Treat my family to a cruise

Live in Paris Have an impromptu road trip
Swim in the Enchanted River Grow sunflowers
Try Skydiving Try target-shooting
Watch a Grammy Awards Show Run a 42-km marathon
Activity 2
EN9LT-If-14: Arrive at meaning of words through word formation (clipping, blending, acronym,
compounding, folk, entomology, etc.)
Usually, business forms and government agencies that you may be working at in the future use acronyms.
An acronym is a word formed using the initial letters or syllables of words in a series. This type of word
formation is called Acronymy.
Here are some acronyms that you might have encountered. Can you identify what they stand for?
1. UP is a premier educational institution in the Philippines.
What does it stand for? _________________________________________________
2. DepEd is an executive department in the Philippines responsible for education.
What does it stand for? _________________________________________________
3. You often hear of COMELEC during the elections.
What does it stand for? _________________________________________________
4. You can find CALABARZON in the map.

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What does it stand for? _________________________________________________
5. You may receive a bill every month form MERALCO
What does it stand for? _________________________________________________

Do you know that you can use acronyms in literature, too? An acrostic is a poem or other composition in
which certain letters in each line form a word or words. Here’s Edgar Allan Poe’s “Acrostic.”

An Acrostic
By Edgar Allan Poe (1829)

Elizabeth it is in vain you say

Love not" — thou sayest it in so sweet a way:
In vain those words from thee or L.E.L.
Zantippe's talents had enforced so well:
Ah! if that language from thy heart arise,
Breath it less gently forth — and veil thine eyes.
Endymion, recollect, when Luna tried
To cure his love — was cured of all beside —
His follie — pride — and passion — for he died.

Activity 3: Poem Acrostic

EN9LC-Ia3.6: Perform a task by following instructions
Do you find Edgar Allan Poe clever with his acrostic? Who do you think is Elizabeth in his poem? Try
making your own acrostic. Compose a poem with free verse using an acrostic. Remember, you are not
limited to a name. You are free to choose what to write about.

Another kind of word formation is folk etymology. It is when we change a word in part or in whole
to make it more like a familiar word. It is often a misunderstanding of an unfamiliar word and changing it
to make more familiar.
Avocado – the Spaniards tried to borrow the Nahuatl Aztec word for this fruit, ahuacatl which means tree
testicle, but they later found it difficult to pronounce. They renamed it to aguacate, a word seemingly
containing agua or water. However, this was later replaced by avogato, and then avocado, a direct
translation of advocate in English.
Catsup – Catsup has become a legitimate spelling of the word pertaining to the popular American tomato
– based condiment. The English language borrowed this word from the Dutch ketjap, which traces its
roots to the Malay word for fish sauce which is kechap.

Activity 4
EN9LT-If-14: Arrive at meaning of words through word formation (clipping, blending, acronym,
compounding, folk, entomology, etc.)
Instruction: Find the folk etymology of five words you pick. Write what you discovered about the
history of the words on the space provided below.

Another element used in selections is the literary device. It is an important aspect of an author’s style
in writing. It is used by authors to convey meaning and give depth and richness.

Figures of Speech in literature are words or phrases that go beyond the literal meaning. With this, we
achieve special effects in writing through the use of a variety of techniques.

Here are some list f Figures of Speech:

1. Alliteration: The repetition of an initial consonant sound.

Example: She sells seashells by the seashore.
guns, goons, gold
big, better, bags
2. Anaphora: The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses.
Example: Unfortunately, I was in the wrong place at the wrong time on the wrong day. 

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“Five years have passed;
Five summers, with the length of
Five long winters.”
3. Antithesis: The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases.
Example: As Abraham Lincoln said, "Folks who have no vices have very few virtues."
“Speech is silver, but Silence is gold.” – Anonymous
4. Apostrophe: Directly addressing a nonexistent person or an inanimate object as though it were a living
being.
Example: "Oh, you stupid car, you never work when I need you to," Bert sighed.
“Oh, the torment bred in the race”
5. Assonance: Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words.
Example: How now, brown cow?
6. Chiasmus: A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but
with the parts reversed.
Example: The famous chef said people should live to eat, not eat to live.
“Do I love you because you’re beautiful?
Or are you beautiful because I love you?” – Oscar Hammerstein, Do I Love You Because You’re Beautiful
7. Euphemism: The substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit. 
Example:  Big- boned (overweight)- “Oh your baby is so cute, isn’t she big-boned?
Use the restroom (instead of use the toilet)- “I need to use the restroom, excuse me.”
8. Hyperbole: An extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or
heightened effect.
Example: I have a ton of things to do when I get home.
I have aged years in a day!
9. Irony: The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. Also, a statement or situation
where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea.
Example: "Oh, I love spending big bucks," said my dad, a notorious penny pincher.
10. Litotes: A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by
negating its opposite.
Example: She is not young as she was.
A million dollars is no small chunk of change.
11. Metaphor: An implied comparison between two dissimilar things that have something in common.
Example: "All the world's a stage."
You are the light of my life.
12. Metonymy: A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is
closely associated; also, the rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things
around it.
Example: "That stuffed suit with the briefcase is a poor excuse for a salesman," the manager said angrily.
Hand (for help)
Sword (refers to violence or force)
13. Onomatopoeia: The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they
refer to.
Example: The clap of thunder went bang and scared my poor dog.
Chirping of the birds
14. Oxymoron: A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side.
Example:  Dark Light
Living dead
Open Secret
15. Paradox: A statement that appears to contradict itself.
Example: "This is the beginning of the end," said Eeyore, always the pessimist.
16. Personification: A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with
human qualities or abilities.
Example: That kitchen knife will take a bite out of your hand if you don't handle it safely.
The clouds are crying.

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The leaves are dancing.
17. Pun: A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar
sense or sound of different words.
Example: Jessie looked up from her breakfast and said, "A boiled egg every morning is hard to beat."
18. Simile: A stated comparison (usually formed with "like" or "as") between two fundamentally
dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common.
Example: Roberto was white as a sheet after he walked out of the horror movie.
As dark as night
Like a pinwheel
19. Synecdoche: A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole.
Example: Tina is learning her ABC's in preschool.
The good book (referring to the Bible)
20. Understatement: A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker deliberately makes a situation seem
less important or serious than it is.
Example: "You could say Babe Ruth was a decent ballplayer," the reporter said with a wink.

To a Waterfowl
By William Cullen Bryant

Whither, 'midst falling dew,

While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, William Cullen Bryant
Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue was an American known
Thy solitary way? for being a romantic
poet, journalist,
Vainly the fowler’s eye
and editor. He studied law,
Might mark thy distant flight, to do thee wrong,
As, darkly seen against the crimson sky, but injustices in courts swayed him
Thy figure floats along. from this life. He then
became an editor and spent almost
Seek’st thou the plashy brink half of his life as the Editor-in-Chief
Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, of New York Evening Post. His most
Or where the rocking billows rise and sink notable work is his poem,
On the chaféd ocean side?
“Thanatopisis”.
There is a Power, whose care
Teaches thy way along that pathless coast,—
The desert and illimitable air
Lone wandering, but not lost.

All day thy wings have fanned,

At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere;
Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land,
Though the dark night is near.

And soon that toil shall end,

Soon shalt thou find a summer home, and rest,
And scream among thy fellows; reeds shall bend,
Soon, o’er thy sheltered nest.

Activity 5
EN9LT-Ic-14: Analyze literature as a means of enhancing the self
Instruction: Scan the selection to answer the following questions.
1. From what you’ve gathered from the poem, what do you think is a waterfowl?

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2. Who is the persona in the poem?
3. In the fourth stanza, Power is capitalized. Who do you think does the persona pertain to?
4. In the seventh paragraph, the persona mentioned about learning a lesson. What do you think is
this lesson?
5. Do you have someone or something that taught you a lesson too? What lesson did you learn?

A dash (--) is a longer line used in sentences appearing in between words. It is used in different ways:

a. To indicate an interruption in written speech

“You are banned from practice for the rest of the term!” shouted Minerva.
“But-“ began Harry but he was promptly cut off by the professor’s stren glare.

b. As a substitute for “it is”, “they are” or other similar expression.

I only have one favorite teacher – Ms. Rabel

c. As a substitute for parenthesis

The student is intelligent – she usually gets high grades – but she has been feeling sick lately.

A dash has a twin, the hyphen (-). It is a shorter version of a dash used to connect two or more words to
have a single concept. The hyphen has different purposes of use different from the dash.

a. To form adjectives
Four- bed house
Never-to-be-forgotten experience

b. To combine a middle name with a surname (for married women)

Maria Tuazon – Cruz
Elizabeth Tiongzon- Lopez

c. As a component of numbers written in words

Twenty- eight
Thirty-four

d. As a substitute for the word “to”

January 25-29
2-3 table spoon

Activity 6
Objective: Use hyphens and dashes correctly.
Now that you have learned the difference between a dash and a hyphen, let’s do an activity. Analyze the
sentences below and determine which punctuation (dash or hyphen) should be used. Write D for dash and
H for hyphen on the blank before each number.
_____1. We recently brought a five ___ seater van.
_____2. “I wish you would ___ oh, never mind.”
_____3. Mrs. Flordeliza Mercado ___ Reyes joint the event halfway.
____4. The tree stood strong ___ it survived the strom ___ but there are no leaves left.
_____5. His grandfather lived from January 18, 1929 ___ November 1, 2004
_____6. He only love one thing ___ his mother.
_____7.I fear one thing in life ___ dying.
_____8.We need 3 ___ 4 cups of water to cook.
_____9. There are two hundred forty ___ five songs in my phone.
_____10. A ten ___ wheeler truck has an accident yesterday.

V. NEW IDEAS
EN9WC-Ie-9: Compose forms of literary writing

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Now that you have learned the different text types in the previous lesson, it’s time for you to
write one. Remember the differences among informative, journalistic, and literary writing. Choose one
type and write something about the things you have learned in this chapter. Be reminded that you should
be able to correct punctuation marks, capitalizations, hyphens and dashes, and contractions.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
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“You’ve learned that in your life’s journey, simple or complicated changes keep coming. These changes
bring a lot of trials or challenges. Sometimes they bring happiness, at times depression. Just the same,
you have to cherish these changes that bring challenges because they push you either up or down and
that is why you must react positively by looking for ways to make your life better if not the best.”

VI. EVALUATION

Instruction: Identify the figure of speech used in the following sentences. Write your answer in your
notebook.
1. The righteous shall flourish as the palm tree.
2. Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.
3. The camel is the ship of the desert.
4. Variety is the spice of life.
5. Pride goeth forth on horseback, grand and gay.
6. O Solitude! Where are the charms that sages have seen in thy face?
7. Death lays his icy hands on kings.
8. Why, man, if the river were dry, I am able to fill it with tears.
9. O Hamlet! Thou hast cleft my heart in twain.
10. Man proposes, God disposes.

Reference:
Mendoza, P.A, & Santos, M. (2016). English 9 British American- Literature Based on the K-12
Curriculum. Printed and published by: The Library Publishing House. Inc. Units T & U
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