Literature

• Main Types of Pruses

  • Novel
  • Short Story
  • Plays
  • Legends
  • Fables
  • Anecdotes
  • Essay
  • Biography
  • Autobiography
  • News
  • Oration
• Novel


  A long story divided into chapters
• Learning


  A leap into the Past
• Building Critical Thinking Skills


  • Symbols
  • Connections
  • Hidden Meanings
• Appreciation of Culture and Beliefs

  • Reading
  • Understanding
  • Respecting
• Short Story


  One plot story
• Plays


  Intended to be acted on stage
• Legends


  Facts that became exaggerated
• Fables


  • Animals are the main characters (humanized)
  • Main goal is to impart values and lessons
• Anecdotes


  Main goal is to impart values and lessons
• Essay


  Analytic and interpretive form of literature that emphasizes the author's own perspective, argument, and judgement about the topic
• Biography


  A person's life story written by another
• Types of Poetry


  • Narrative
  • Lyric
• Narrative Poetry


  Important Events
• Lyric Poetry


  Intended to be sung
• Ballads


  • Simplest & Shortest
• Sonnets


  Ideas & Emotions
• Ode


  Dignified Manner Praising God
• Corrido


  Life Routines or Habits
• Autobiography


  A person's life story written by themselves
• News


  Important Events
• Oration


  A speech that is delivered in a dignified manner
• Forms and Genres of Fiction and Non-Fiction

  • Fiction
  • Non-Fiction
• Larget Category
• 4 Major Genres of Fiction

  • Literature Fiction
  • Urban Literature
  • Women's Fiction
  • Historical Romance
• Literature Fiction


  • Intelligent Thinking Skills
• Urban Literature


  • Life on the Street By the Black Americans
  • Violence, Suffering, Discrimination
• Women's Fiction


  For Women Only
• Historical Romance


  Setting in the Past
• Other Genres of Fiction / Minor Genres

  • Mystery
  • Horror
  • Fantasy
• Mystery


  Puzzle Investigation
• Horror


  • Scary
  • Frightening
  • Disgust
• Forms of Non-Fiction


  • Literary Non-Action
  • Functional Texts
• Literary Non-Action


  • Information
  • Autobiography (entire life)
  • Memoirs (specific time)
  • Letters
  • Essay
  • Articles
  • Reports
• Functional Texts


  • Procedure
  • Instructions
  • Recipes
  • Directions
  • Schedules
  • Menus
  • Maps
  • Appliances
• Types of Pre-Colonial Philippine Literature

  • Love
  • Religious & Political
  • Adventure Love (Romance)
  • Heroism
  • Magic
• Characteristics of Ancient Filipino Poetry

  • Short
  • Simple
  • Deep
• Matatalinhagang salita


  Figurative language
• Purposes of Bugtong (Riddle)


  • To entertain
  • To educate
  • To curse
  • To preserve the culture
• Types of Filipino Oral Traditions

  • Salawikain and Sawikain
  • Proverbs Advices