21st Century Literature

Literature

written works, and sometimes spoken or performed works, considered to have artistic or intellectual value.

Literature

It encompasses a wide range of genres

Philippine Pre-colonial

Early Filipinos weaved together countless myths and legends to explain certain phenomena in life.

Oral literature

Most of what have been transcribed now are taken from _____________.

Proverbs (salawikain)

are practical observations of philosophy of everyday life that are written usually in a rhyming scheme.

Riddles (bugtong)

like proverbs with one main difference: they demand an answer and are used to test the wits of those who are listening.

Folksongs (Harana)

are beautiful songs that are informal expressions of our ancestors' experiences in life.

Folksongs (Harana)

These range from courtship, lullabies, harvest, funerals, and others.

Tales

are stories of origin for certain places, their names, and their creation.

Tales

Also known as myths and legends.

Tales

Used to explain certain events or phenomena in our ancestors' lives that cannot be explained by limited practical kinds of science.

Epics

are long winded poems about a hero and his adventures and misadventures.

Epics

Usually tells a male hero who was born with pleasing qualities and who has supernatural capabilities.

Philippines Pre Colonial Form of Literature

Proverbs, Riddle, Focksong, Tales, Epic

Spanish Colonial

Literature became centered on Christian faith, and stories about natural phenomenon suddenly became all about the lives of saints and other religious hymns.

Corrido

is in octosyllabic verse.

Awit

is in dodecasyllabic verse.

Awit

refers to chanting, are fabricated stories from writer's imagination although the setting and characters are European.

Pasyon

is a narrative poem about the life of Jesus Christ, beginning from his birth and up to his death. This is usually sung during the Lenten season.

Cenaculo

is the dramatization of the passion of Christ.

Cenaculo

It highlights the suffering and death of Jesus Christ, and it is also done during the Lenten season.

Moro-moro

conflict of Christians and Muslims. christian alway wins

Moro-moro

battle to the death and the proof of faith.

Carillo

also known as "shadow puppet play'"

Carillo

play that uses shadows as its main spectacle.

Carillo

Created by animating figures made from a cupboard, are projected onto white screen.

Tibag

is the dramatic reenactment of St. Helena's search for the Holy Cross.

St. Helena

She is well-known to have traveled to Syria to look for the relics of Jesus Christ's cross, the one that was used in His crucifixion.

Duplo

a lively exchange between two poets where one shares a witty line about love, and the other quickly counters with a clever response.

Karagatan

the same as duplo but is performed by amateur poets.

Zarzuela

probably one of the most famous forms of entertainment back in the Spanish era.

Zarzuela

musical comedies or melodramas that deal with the elemental passions of human beings.

Zarzuela

It follows a certain plot, which shows either a satirical look at society.

Spanish colonial form of literature

corrido, awit, pasyon, cenaculo, carillo, tibag, duplo/karagatan, zarzuela

Philippine poetry

In the early 1900s, Filipino poetry celebrated romanticism, several poems about love flourished.

romanticism

characterized by the romance mode found in forms like the awit and corrido.

Huseng Sisiw

Awa sa Pag-Ibig, Singsing ng Pag-Ibig

Clodualdo del Mundo

Maikling Tula ng Pag-Ibig

Formalist

the emphasis on the of the poetry is more on the form and language that the poet used, rather than the theme itself.

Theme

the main idea conveyed in a piece of writing.

Theme

The lesson or message explored throughout a text.

Modern poetry

writers are more adventurous in their craft.

Imagery

The writer uses carefully chosen and phrased words to create an imagery that the reader can see through his/her senses.

Visual Imagery

see

Olfactory Imagery

smell

Gustatory Imagery

taste

Tactile Imagery

feel/touch

Auditory Imagery

hear

Diction

is the denotative and connotative meaning oft he words in a sentence, phrase, paragraph, or poem.

denotative

dictionary definition

connotative

symbol of the word

Rhyme Scheme

is the way the author arranges words, meters, lines, and stanzas to create a coherent sound when the poem is read out loud.

Canonical Poem

is one that is widely considered to be a classic, definitive, or essential work within a specific literary tradition or genre.

Imagery

are used by the writer to describe their impressions of their topic or object of writing.

story

conflict is the heart and soul of a story

gustav freytag pyramid

exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement

exposition

the start of the story / introduction

rising action

the start of the conflict in the story

climax

where the excited part start

falling action

where the conflict is being resolved

denouement

how the story ends

A footnote to youth (jose garcia villa)

the theme of this story is youth impulsiveness