CPAR

• Literature - is considered to be a whole

  bulk of written works
• literature means a body of

  works that show “the best that has been

  thought and said,”
• Contemporary Philippine Literature - described as focusing on evoking

  social consciousness.
• Creative writing during the Martial Law era was said to be confrontational in highlighting social and political issues.
• creative writing shifted to a more steady personal perspective when it comes to social consciousness after the 1986 EDSA Revolution.
• Creative Writing - became more

  organized during that time.
• Academic institutions began offering Creative Writing as one of their respective undergraduate degree program offerings.
• Poetry - refers to expressing a feeling or

  an idea using figurative or symbolic language.
• Meaning - writer can use the following in order to express his or her feelings or ideas: technical terms, idiom, dialect.
• Figurative Language - mainly consists

  of simile, metaphor, and other figures of

  speech.
• Imagery - consists of descriptions and

  details that can trigger the reader's senses (sight, hearing, smell, etc.).
• Sound and Rhythm - elements

  make use of the spoken nature of poetry.
• Sound - refer to the emphasis on certain words or rhymes.
• Rhythm - just a position of beats or the sound pattern of the work.
• Prose - refers to literature that is not

  poetry, written or spoken language in its

  ordinary form,without metrical structure.
• Prose - may be informative or persuasive
• Theme or content - pertains to the

  general thought or idea of the whole

  composition.
• Style - refers to the choices of words and sentence structures
• Plot or Story Line - is a sequence

  of events
• Characters - can be a person, an animal or even thing who takes part in the narrative of the story.
• Setting - the time and place in which the story happened.
• Theme - the central thought or idea of the whole story.
• Language and style - pertains to

  the choices of words the writer uses.
• Language and style - includes the sentence structures and figurative language that affect the mood or tone of the story.
• Point of view - may be presented using the third-person
• Ethnic Tradition - consists of ancient

  songs, epic narratives, maxims
• Epic - relates adventures of a hero
• Epic - usually chanted or sung before an audience.
• epic also serves as a “code of

  values”
• Folk song - refers to a song that is

  transmitted orally
• Folk song - it expresses ideas, emotions of other community.
• Folk song is also known as “awiting bayan”
• Proverbs - are concise statements

  that teach ideas on morality and tradition.
• Proverbs - It usually expresses as rhyming
• Riddles - describes an object in an entirely different manner
• Riddles - it may be a question that intended to someone to answer it
• Short poem - it has four lines with 5-12 syllables.
• “tanaga” were written by contemporary writers such as Jose h. Lacaba, Marra PL 'Allot, and an anonymous Ilonggo poet who is part of the political “underground” movement in 1982.
• Pasyon - written in a stanza

  with 5 lines with 8 syllables per line,

  recounts the life of Jesus Christ.
• two types of pasyon, the

  “traditional pabasa”, and “the

  political pasyon”.