MELC ACTIVITIES
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- ProverbsTruths and wise sayings expressed in a language that is popularly known
- ProseA form of language that has no formal metrical structure
- LiteratureA written picture of life
- MythA story of gods and goddesses told using a traditional language explaining mysteries, beliefs and cultural practices
- LegendsStories explaining origins handed down from the past and passed through different generations
- EpicA long narrative poem about quests and exciting adventures of a hero with unusual strength and power
- PoetryLiterary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas using distinctive style and rhythm
- SyllabaryAn ancient Filipino alphabet consisted of seventeen symbols
- RiddleA game in a form of mystifying question and a mind puzzle intended to be solved
- FablesStories intended to teach human values which animals used as characters attributing human characters
- Pre-Colonial LiteratureThis period in Philippine Literary History is heavily noted with our ancestor’s heritage, beliefs and culture.
- TalesThese 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.
- TalesThese 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 LiteratureThis is focused on the society and culture as reflected and affected by the Catholic faith.
- PasyonIt is a narrative poem about the life of Jesus Christ, beginning from his birth and up to his death.
- TibagIt is the dramatic reenactment of St. Helena’s search for the Holy Cross.
- American Colonial PeriodIn this period, new literary forms such as free verse (in poetry), the modern short story, and the critical essay were introduced.
- Contemporary PeriodDuring 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.
- LiteratureIt covers the major genres of poetry, drama, and novel/ fiction. It also implies literary quality and distinction.
- SugilanonWhat is the Hiligaynon term for riddles?
- Leoncio P. DeriadaWho is known as the “Father of Contemporary West Visayan literature”?
- Felipe Landa JocanoWho is tagged as “the country’s first and foremost cultural anthropologist” from Cabatuan, Iloilo?
- Peter Solis NeryWho is the multi-award-winning Filipino poet, fictionist, and playwright from Dumangas, Iloilo?
- ABNKKBSNPLAKOWhich of the works of Roberto Ong has a movie adaptation?
- John Iremil E. TeodoroWho is the multi-lingual writer from Antique who pioneered the Philippine gay literature?
- Gilda OlvidadoWho is a melodrama writer known for novels in pocketbooks that have been turned into movie and television series?
- ToneThe poet or speaker's attitude toward the subject, the reader, or himself
- RhythmThe order of alternation of strong and weak elements in the flow of sound and silence
- ClimaxThe highest dramatic tension in a story
- PoetryA literary type written in verses that make up stanzas
- ImageryVivid and descriptive language used in a literary work
- NovelA lengthy narrative story separated into series of chapters
- Chick litA type of fiction which addresses issues of modern womanhood, often humorously and light-heartedly
- FictionAny 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
- LineEquivalent of a sentence in prose
- DensityHow much has been said in a given literary work
- The Diary of a Teenage GirlGraphic Novel
- Confessions of a ShopaholicChic Lit
- Harry Potter SeriesSpeculative Fiction
- For Sale: Baby shoes, never wornFlash Fiction