21st Century Literature

• RIDDLE/BUGTONG - made up of one or more measured lines with rhyme and may consist of 12-15 syllables.
• EPIGRAMS/SALAWIKAIN - used and served as laws or rules on good behavior by our ancestors.
• IDIOMS/SAWIKAIN - phrase whose meanings isn't obvious from looking at the individual words.
• CHANTS/BULONG - used in witchcraft or enchantment.
• FOLK SONGS - oldest form of literature the emerge in the pre-Spanish period.
• *OYAYI (lullaby)
• *SULIRAN (boat song)
• *KUMINTANG (war song)
• *DIONA (wedding song)
• *DALIT (religious song)
• *KUNDIMAN (love song)
• *DAPAYAN (drinking song)
• *HABAIS (travel song)
• *DUNG-AW (funeral song)
• EPIC - long narrative poems in which a series of heroes' achievements and events dealt with a lenght.
• *BIAG NI LAM-ANG (ilokano)
• *BIDASARI (moro)
• *HUDHUD (ifugao)
• MARAGTAS, IBALON, INORAPATRA AT SULAYMAN (visayan).
• LEGENDS - form of prose as the common theme, which is about the origin of thing, place, location or name.
• FABLES - feature animals given in human characteristic and deliver a lesson or moral.

  • it highlights human weaknesses.
• SPANISH LITERATURE (1565 - 1898)
• FERDINAND MAGELLAN - discovered the land of the Philippines.
• ADELANTO MIGUEL LOPEZ DE LEGAZPI - first settlement of the spaniards in Cebu.
• FRANCISCO BALTAZAR - wrote Florante at Laura (awit composed of dodecasyllabic Mono rhyming quatrains).
• ISLAM - first religion in the Philippines before Christianity.
• LITERARY GENRE - category of literary composition. many piece of written materials.

  • determined by literary technique, tone, content and length.
• DRAMA - story composed of prose or verse which is meant to be dramatically or theatrically performed.

  emotions and conflicts are express through dialogue, movements, and actions.

  • GENRES: ROMCOM, HORROR, COMEDY.
• CREATIVE NON-FICTION - known as literary fiction or narrative non-fiction.

  genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives.

  • GENRES: ESSAY, BIOGRAPHY, JOURNALS.
• BLOG - short for WEBLOG containing short articles and post that can be change regularly.
• BLOGGER, person writing and sharing his hobbies/interest opinions and experiences.
• POETRY - verse or rhythmic patter with imagery (figurative) that evokes an emotional response from the reader.
• POETRY - it is rhythmical in composition, written, or spoken.
• POETRY - for entertaining and exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative and elevated thoughts.
• MOBILE PHONE TEXT TULA - term "TEXTUAL" is a blend of text and tula meaning "text poem".

  • written in a form of text message using mobile phones.
• HYPER POETRY - also known as cyber poetry.

  • digital poetry that uses links using links using hypertext, usually formed online.
• SPOKEN WORD POETRY - performed or read in artistic and emotive manner, which can be accompanied by music or presented in streets, bars and cafes.
• TANAGA POEM - 7 syllables in 4 lines. 7-7-7-7 rhyming scheme a-a-a-a or a-a-b-b. style of filipino poem.
• SHORT STORY - fiction that can be read in one sitting and is not able to support subplots.

  • *ALL OVER THE WORLS *BIG SISTERS *THE BUS DRIVER'S DAUGHTERS
• FICTION - genres that can be defined as narrative literary work that content is produce by imagination and not usually based on facts.

  • something that is invented, imagined and a made-up stories.