21st: Lesson 1

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    • These are statements that contain simple words, but they function figuratively and like metaphors and are in the form of questions.
    • These are questions that demand deeper answers.
    •  Deals with everyday life.
    • It usually has mundane things as answers.
    • This is utilized in the past as a game in small or large gatherings.  

    Pre-Colonial Period: Riddles
    • These are exceptionally long accounts that are based on oral conventions.
    • These contain experiences of warriors, cliché princes, or heroes that spare a lady in trouble.
    Pre-Colonial Period: Epics 
    • These tackle the natural to strange happenings and how things were made to explain things

    Pre-Colonial Period: Myths
    • Through this, people understood the mysteries surrounding them.
    • These stories usually come with ethical lessons that give supernatural powers, supernatural occurrences, and another out-of-this-world native imagination. 

    Pre-Colonial Period: Legends
    • These are folk lyrics that are usually chanted.
    •  These usually contain ideas on aspirations, hopes, everyday life, and love expressions for loved ones.
    • It is bounded by the learning of good morals.
    • It is easy to comprehend because it is direct and not figurative.
    Pre-Colonial Period: Folk Songs
    • These are stories of native Filipinos.
    • These deal with nature's power- personified, their submission to a deity- usually Bathala- and how this deity is responsible for the blessings and calamities.
    • It tackles irresponsibility, lust, stupidity, deception, and fallibility that eventually lead to good morals.
    Pre-Colonial Period: Folk Tales
    • Focus on the emphasis of Christian doctrines.
    • Introduction of the Roman alphabet and Spanish language.
    Spanish Period (1565-1898)
  • focuses on the life and the death of Jesus Christ.  

    Spanish Period (1565-1898):Religious Literature
  • it is about the passion (journey and suffering) and the death of Jesus Christ.
    Spanish Period (1565-1898):  Religious Literature: Pasyon
  • it is the re-enactment of the pasyon.

    Spanish Period (1565-1898):  Religious Literature: Senakulo
  • it depicts European society through love and fame, or a narrative about a journey. It also depicts the battle between Christians and Moros.
    Spanish Period (1565-1898):  Religious Literature: Komedya
  • written in Jaro, Iloilo in 1876, six years after the Cavite Revolt attacking the Philippines' friars. He exposed how some of the friars were greedy, ambitious, and immoral.  

    Spanish Period (1565-1898):  Propaganda Literature: Ang Fray Botod by Graciano Lopez Jaena
  • similar to a catechism but sarcastically done against the clerics, published in Barcelona in 1888. 

    Spanish Period (1565-1898)  Propaganda Literature: Dasalan at Tocsohan (Prayers and Jokes) by Marcelo H. Del Pilar 
  • the novel that pushed the propaganda movement and the revolution against Spain. In this book, he exposed the evils in the Spanish-run government in the Philippines. 
    Spanish Period (1565-1898): Propaganda Literature: Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not) by Dr. Jose Rizal
  • these were in the forms of satires, editorials, and news articles that aimed to attack the Spanish rule. 

    Spanish Period (1565-1898): Propaganda Literature
  • are exposes that sparked the revolution and resistance in the hearts of Filipinos. 

    Spanish Period (1565-1898): Revolutionary Literature
  • an outline of obligations just like the Ten Commandments. Hence, it is likewise called "Ang Dekalogo." 

    Spanish Period (1565-1898): Revolutionary Literature: Katungkulang Gagawin ng mga Anak ng Bayan (Obligations of our Countrymen) by Andres Bonifacio
  • a collection of essays on different subjects like freedom, work, faith, government, and country love.
    Spanish Period (1565-1898): Revolutionary Literature: Liwanag at Dilim (Light and Darkness) by Emilio Jacinto
  • highlights the establishment of the Philippine republic and its doom due to disunity among Filipinos.  

    Spanish Period (1565-1898): Revolutionary Literature: El Desarollo y Caida de la Republica Filipina (The Rise and Fall of the Philippine Republic) by Apolinario Mabini
  • printed the decrees of the Revolutionary Government, news, and works in Tagalog that aroused nationalism. It is the Official Newspaper of the Revolutionary Government of Aguinaldo.
    Spanish Period (1565-1898): Publications: El Heraldo de la Revolucion (Herald of the Revolution)
  • an independent newspaper founded and edited by General Antonio Luna.  

    Spanish Period (1565-1898): Publications: La Independencia (Independence)
  • is a private newspaper edited by Pedro Paterno.  

    Spanish Period (1565-1898): Publications: La Republica Filipina (The Philippine Republic)
  • is another private newspaper edited by Clemente Zulueta. 

    Spanish Period (1565-1898): Publications: La Libertad (Liberty
    • The Philippines had a great leap in Education and Culture.
    • The use of English alongside Filipino was practiced.
    • The Philippines Public School system was introduced.
    • Free public instruction was given to the Filipinos.
    • The literature during the American period was considered as imitative of the American model. Instead of asking the students to write originals, students ended up following the form of American poets. 

    American Period (1900-1942)
  • under the American rule still followed the old style but had contents ranging from free writing to societal concerns.  

    American Period (1900-1942): Poetry
  • were poems pre-occupied with such non- traditional themes as passion-slaying, grief-induced, insanity, and lover's suicide.
    American Period (1900-1942): Poetry: Poetry Jose Corazon de Jesus (1832-1896)
  • were poems pre-occupied with such non- traditional themes as passion-slaying, grief-induced, insanity, and lover's suicide.
    American Period (1900-1942): Poetry:Mga Gintong Dahon (1920)
  • returned to the awit form, retelling the history of the Philippines under Spain, the coming of the U.S under the guise of friendship to take over from Spain.  

    American Period (1900-1942): Poetry: Sa Dakong Silangan (1928)
  • usually used in the American period to degrade the Spanish rule and immortalize the men who fought under the Katipunan heroism. 

    American Period (1900-1942): Drama
  • is an allegorical presentation of the history of the nationalist struggle and how the U.S. frustrated the Philippine revolution. 

    American Period (1900-1942): Drama: Kahapon, Ngayon at Bukas (1903)
  • is about Liwanag and K'Ulayaw, lovers who stand for freedom and the Filipino.  

    American Period (1900-1942): Drama:  Tanikalang Ginto (1902) by Juan Abad
  • took up Dr. Jose Rizal's portrayal of social conditions by colonial repression.
    American Period (1900-1942): Remake Novels
  • novel showing the complex interrelations of issues and people in contemporary Philippine society.  

    American Period (1900-1942): Remake Novels: Madaling Araw (1909) by Inigo Ed. Regalado
  • an allusion to the colonial law that branded Filipino patriots as bandits.  

    American Period (1900-1942): Remake Novels: Lalaking Uliran o Tulisan (1914) by Juan Lauro Arsciwals
    • The Philippine literature came to a halt.
    • The use of the English language was forbidden, and the Filipino language was mandated under Japanese rule.
    • For some, this was a problem, but it was a blessing in disguise for most writers.
    • Almost all newspapers were stopped except for some.
    • Filipino literature was given a break during this period, and many wrote plays, poems, short stories, etc. Topics and themes were often about life in the provinces.  

    Japanese Occupation (1942-1945):
  • It experienced a lull during the Japanese period because movie houses showing American films were closed. The big movie houses were just made to show stage shows. Many of the plays were reproductions of English plays to Tagalog.
    Japanese Occupation (1942-1945): Drama
  • It came out during this period and was journalistic. Writers felt suppressed, but slowly, the spirit of nationalism started to seep into their consciousness. While some continued to write, the majority waited for a better climate to publish their works.
    Japanese Occupation (1942-1945): Newspapers Writings
  • It is a common theme of most poems during the Japanese occupation: nationalism, country, love, and life in the barrios, faith, religion, and the arts.   

    Japanese Occupation (1942-1945): Poetry
  • A field of the short story widened during the Japanese occupation. Many wrote short stories.
    Japanese Occupation (1942-1945): Fiction
  • It is composed to glorify the Filipinos and, at the same time, to attack the Japanese figuratively.
    Japanese Occupation (1942-1945): Essays