Literature is considered as the whole bulk of written works.
Contemporary Philippine Literature has been describe as focusing on evoking social consciousness.
Creative Writing during Martial law 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.
Two types of Literature are:
Poetry
Prose
Meaning is what writers can use the following in order to express his or her feelings or ideas.
Figurative Language mainly consist of simile, metaphor, and other figures of speech that can be used in order to express something in a different way aside from its literal meaning.
Imagery is something that consist of description and details that can trigger the readers senses.
Sound and Rhythm is something that make use of the spoken nature of poetry.
Theme or Content pertains to the general thought or idea of the whole composition.
Style refers to the choices of words and sentence structures use to convey the message and hold the attention of the readers.
Form and Structure is the sequence of topic and transition that make up the whole essay reflects on them.
Plot or Story Line is the plot of the story that build.
Characters it can be humans nor animals, and everything who have been the newest member of the story.
Setting is the time and place from which the story happened.
Theme is the central thought or idea of the whole story.
Language and Style pertains to the choices of words the writer uses. This includes the sentence structures and figurative language that affect the mood or tone of the story.
Point of View this may be presented using third person point of view, which means the narrator represent the author himself or herself.
Ethnic Tradition this consist of ethnic songs, narratives, proverbs, prayers, and invocations, and riddles.
Epic relates adventure of a hero with supernatural power. This also sung or chanted before an audience during social gatherings. And serve as a code of values of particular ethnic group.
Folk song refers to a song that is transmitted orally from one generation to another. It usually has its melody and expresses ideas, emotions, and thoughts of the community.
Proverbs are concise statements that teaches ideas on morality and tradition. Usually expresses a rhyming pair of lines that depicts two different elements.
Riddles describes an object in an entirely different manner, or in a way that is not readily understood.
Short Poems usually has four lines with 5-12 syllables per line.
Poetic Jousts this involves marriage negotiation between two families.
Spanish Colonial Tradition this poetic tradition comprises religious and secular lyric poems and narrative poems.
Metrical Romance is popularly known as biag or panagbiag in illocano, impanbilay in pangasinan, kuriro in pampango, and currido in cebuano, illongo, and bicol, and awit o korido in tagalog.
Pasyon written in a stanza with 5 lines and 8 syllables per line, which recounts the life of Jesus christ.
American Colonial and Contemporary Tradition this tradition refers to the creation of poems using both traditional and modern forms.
Folk Narrative may be any story based on fictional or real events in the past told among the people in cultural group or community.
Heroic and Historical tackles the episode in the lives of great man and women.
Religious which narrates display miracle of God and of the saints.
Supernatural which focuses on the existence of beings from the underworld.
Toponymic which explains why a certain place has this name.
Folk Tales classified into animal tales or fables, magic tales, humorous tales, novelistic tales, religious and didactic tales.
Essay explains the insights and information using description, narration and humor: it has two types such as Formal and Informal Essay.
Formal Essay it discusses crucial topics based on research in a serious manner.
Informal Essay is a narrative that enables a writer to express his or her experiences, insights, and observation in a creative manner.
Novel defined as lengthy and complex narrative of events based on author's imagination.
Didactic Tradition written to guide people in the romantic catholic faith.