Literature

• Pre-colonial Period


  Longest Period of philippine literature
• Pre-colonial Period


  use of baybayin
• Pre-colonial Period

  mostly oral in tradition
• Pre-colonial Period

  bore the mark of the community
• Characteristics of Pre-colonial Period

  'spontaneous and instinctive, uses the languange of daily life, crude in ideology and phraseology
• Conventions of Pre-colonial Period

  Formulaic reptitions, stereotyping of characters, regular rhythmic and musical devices
• Riddles (Bugtong)


  A traditional verbal expression containing one ortwo descriptive elements, a pair of which maybe in opposition to each other, the referent of theelements is to be guessed
• Proverbs(salawikain)


  Customarily used and served as laws or rules on good behavior and as practical guides in living life by our ancestors. These are like allegories or parables that impart lessons for the young.
• Short poems

  4 lines, 7 syllables
• Chants(Bulong)


  used in witchcraft and enchantment
• Myths

  religious-creation of the universe/people- gods and goddesses and supernatural beings
• Legends(Alamat)


  regarded true by the narrator and audience but are set n a period more remote
• Folktales(Kuwentong Bayan)


  made up stories about life and can derive lessons
• Fables (Pabula)


  use animals as characters
• Rituals ad Dance(Drama)


  mimetic dances imitating natural cycles and work activities
• Epics

  long heroic narratives which recount the adventures of tribal heroes
• Spanish Colonialism


  imposed to the filipinos the spanish monarchy and roman catholic religion
• Spanish Colonialism


  printing press was brought by spanish missionaries
• Spanish Colonialism


  priests ensured that literatures centered on catholic religion
• Spanish Colonialism

  priests ensured that literatures centered on catholic religion
• Religious


  all about religion and christ
• sinakulo/senakulo


  a stage play that also depicts the passion of the christ and was performed during lenten season
• Komedya

  moro-moro or poetic theater about christian and moorish warriors.
• Awit

  four 12-syllable. Florante at Laura
• Korido

  four 8-syllable
• Korido


  four 8-syllable
• Carillo

  uses shadows as its main spectacle
• Tibag


  dramatic reenactment of St. Helena's search for the Holy Cross
• Duplo or Karagatan


  connected to mourning rituals ad harvest celebrations
• Zarzuelas


  musical comedies or melodramas that deal with elemental passions of human beings
• Zarzuelas

  musical comedies or melodramas that deal with elemental passions of human beings
• Revolutionary


  against the war
• American colonial period

  spain sold us for20 million dollars in the treaty of paris in 1898
• American colonial period

  institutionalization of the public education system in 1901
• American colonial period

  english as the medium of instruction
• The Period of Re-orientation(1898-1910)

  writers are still trying to learn the new language brought by the american colonizers
• Period of Imitation(1910-1925)

  writers were still emulating the style and mode of writing of writers coming from the anglo-american tradition.
• A child of sorrow(1912)

  Zoilo Galang - first Filipino novel in English
• Period of Self-Discovery (1925-1941)

  writers were already able to use the english language as if it was their native language
• American colonial period

  news papers and magazines