MELC ACTIVITIES

• Proverbs


  Truths and wise sayings expressed in a language that is popularly known
• Prose 


  A form of language that has no formal metrical structure
• Literature


  A written picture of life
• Myth


  A story of gods and goddesses told using a traditional language explaining mysteries, beliefs and cultural practices
• Legends


  Stories explaining origins handed down from the past and passed through different generations
• Epic


  A long narrative poem about quests and exciting adventures of a hero with unusual strength and power
• Poetry


  Literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas using distinctive style and rhythm
• Syllabary


  An ancient Filipino alphabet consisted of seventeen symbols
• Riddle


  A game in a form of mystifying question and a mind puzzle intended to be solved
• Fables


  Stories intended to teach human values which animals used as characters attributing human characters
• Pre-Colonial Literature


  This period in Philippine Literary History is heavily noted with our ancestor’s heritage, beliefs and culture.
• Tales


  These are usually used to explain certain events or phenomena in our ancestor’s lives that cannot be explained by the limited practical kind of science they knew back then.
• Tales


  These are practical observations and philosophy of everyday life that are written usually in a rhyming scheme. It is obviously meant to entertain while teaching basic skills in surviving local life.
• Spanish Literature


  This is focused on the society and culture as reflected and affected by the Catholic faith.
• Pasyon


  It is a narrative poem about the life of Jesus Christ, beginning from his birth and up to his death.
• Tibag


  It is the dramatic reenactment of St. Helena’s search for the Holy Cross.
• American Colonial Period

  In this period, new literary forms such as free verse (in poetry), the modern short story, and the critical essay were introduced.
• Contemporary Period


  During this period, the Filipino writer has become more conscious of his art with the proliferation of writers’ workshops here and abroad and the bulk of literature available via mass media including the internet.
• Literature


  It covers the major genres of poetry, drama, and novel/ fiction. It also implies literary quality and distinction.
• Sugilanon


  What is the Hiligaynon term for riddles?
• Leoncio P. Deriada


  Who is known as the “Father of Contemporary West Visayan literature”?
• Felipe Landa Jocano

  Who is tagged as “the country’s first and foremost cultural anthropologist” from Cabatuan, Iloilo?
• Peter Solis Nery

  Who is the multi-award-winning Filipino poet, fictionist, and playwright from Dumangas, Iloilo?
• ABNKKBSNPLAKO


  Which of the works of Roberto Ong has a movie adaptation?
• John Iremil E. Teodoro


  Who is the multi-lingual writer from Antique who pioneered the Philippine gay literature?
• Gilda Olvidado


  Who is a melodrama writer known for novels in pocketbooks that have been turned into movie and television series?
• Tone


  The poet or speaker's attitude toward the subject, the reader, or himself
• Rhythm


  The order of alternation of strong and weak elements in the flow of sound and silence
• Climax


  The highest dramatic tension in a story
• Poetry


  A literary type written in verses that make up stanzas
• Imagery


  Vivid and descriptive language used in a literary work
• Novel


  A lengthy narrative story separated into series of chapters
• Chick lit


  A type of fiction which addresses issues of modern womanhood, often humorously and light-heartedly
• Fiction


  Any imaginative fact and idea of life where the characters and settings are purely work of the author's mind and may not happen in real life
• Line


  Equivalent of a sentence in prose
• Density


  How much has been said in a given literary work
• The Diary of a Teenage Girl

  Graphic Novel
• Confessions of a Shopaholic

  Chic Lit
• Harry Potter Series

  Speculative Fiction
• For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn

  Flash Fiction