express the poet’s or the persona’s feelings and emotions
DRAMATICPOETRY
performed onstage
sung or spoken
ELEMENT OF POETRY
persona
form
imagery
soundpattern
rhyme
figurativelanguage
theme
POERSONA
a dramatic character who is the speaker in the poem
A persona is not always the poet
FORM
Poetry is written in lines, and oftentimes the lines are divided into groups called stanzas.
IMAGERY
use of language that appeals to the five senses: visual (sight), auditory (hearing), gustatory (taste), tactile (touch), and olfactory (sense).
SOUND PATTERN
rhyme, rhythm, and other literary devices that pertain to sounds
onomatopoeia - using words that imitate the sound of what they refer to
alliteration - repetition of initial sounds
assonance - repetition of vowel sounds within neighboring words
RHYME
repetition of similar sound at the end of lines
rhymescheme - rhyme placed at the end of each line or stanza
rhythm
foot - two or more stressed and/or unstressed syllables
meter - measurement of syllables in a line
TYPES OF FOOT
lambic
trochaic
anapestic
dactylic
spondaic
LAMBIC
1 unstressed syllable followed by 1 stressed syllables
TROCHAIC
1 stre sylla followed by 1 unstre sylla
ANAPESTIC
2 unstre sylla followed by 1 stre sylla
DACTYLIC
1 stre sylla followed by 2 unstre sylla
SPONDAIC
all syllables have equal stress
TYPE OF METER
Monometer - one foot
Dimeter - two feet
Trimeter - three feet
Tetrameter - four feet
Pentameter - five feet
Hexameter - six feet
Heptameter - seven feet
Octameter - eight feet
FIGURATIVELANGUAGE
words or phrases that are put together to help readers picture ordinary things in new ways
THEME
central idea of poem
usually started as a philosophical truth in life
Most literary works during the precolonial period were transmitted through oraltradition
Early literary written forms of pre-colonial Filipinos were destroyed by the Spanishfriars
Surviving texts were restored because of resistance and geographicalisolation.
E.Arsenio Manuel
a literary scholar notable for his studies on Philippine folk literature, divided Philippine precolonial literature into three, namely the Mythological Age, Heroic Age, and Folktales from all ages.
MYTHOLOGICAL AGE
period when our ancestors told stories about the creation of human beings and the world, natural phenomena, and deities and spirits.
HEROIC AGE
Ordinary mortals and cultural heroes became the chief subject matter in this period
Epics became a popular genre
FOLKTALES/KWENTONG BAYAN
Traditional stories that had humans, animals, and even plants as characters
fiction tales that have been modified through successive retellings before they were finally recorded and written down
BAYBAYIN
Derived form kawi, a javanese(indo) script
POETRY
Form of literature that emphasizes rhythm and used of imagery and sound pattern
ANIMISH
Belief that souls or spirit exist
comes from latin word "anima" means a person's inner self or souls
DEITIES
god and goddess
KALUWALHATIAN
Refer to the home of ancient philippine god and goddes
BATHALA OR BATHALANGMAYKAPAL
King of the gods in tagalog myths who married a mortal, which had three children
APOLAKI
MAYARI
TALA
APOLAKI (Adlaw)
god of war and guardian of the sun
MAYARI (Bulan)
Goddess of the moon
TALA
Goddess of the stars
who warns Mayari that the sun god is gone and that it is safe for her to come out along with the stars
AMIHAN
believed to be a bird
BACUNAWA AND THE SEVEN MOON
"moon eater" is the god of the underworld
FOLK SONG
Repetitive and sonorous sound that have playful melody