NOTES ON

PHILIPPINE
LITERATURE
- preparation for post test
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Philippine FOLK FOLK FOLK SONGS

Folk NARRATIVES SPEECH ➢ Folk ballads
Literature ➢ alamat ➢ bugtong

(folklore) (riddle)
➢ salawikain
➢ the legend
(proverbs)
➢ kuwentong
bayan (folk
tale)
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1. legendary hero
Elements 2. superhuman strength/valor
of Epic 3. multiple settings
4. supernatural involvement
5. epic style of writing
6. omniscient narration
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❑ Folksongs (awiting bayan) –short poems;

Lyric sitsiritsit
❑ Sonnets – 14 lines; Santang Buds by
Poetry Alfonso P. Santos
❑ Elegy – expresses grief and melancholy,
and whose the is death; The Lover’s Death
by Ricaredo Demetillo
❑ Ode – poem of a noble feeling
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❑ Psalms (dalit) – a song of praising

Lyric ❑ Awit (song) – 12 syllables
Poetry (dodecasyllabic); Florante at Laura by
Francisco Balagtas
❑ Corridos (kuridos) – 8 syllables
(octosyllabic); Ibong Adarna
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❑
▪ Ida-ida (Maguindanao)
Folk ▪ Tulang pambata (tagalog)
▪ Cansiones para abbing (Ibanag)
Songs
❑ Lullabies
▪ Ili-Ili (Ilongo)
❑ Work songs
▪ Kalusan (Ivatan)
▪ Soliranin (Tagalog Rowing Song)
▪ Mambayu (Klinga Rice-Pounding Song)
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❑
▪ Panawagon and Balitao (Ilongo)
Folk ▪ Harana (Cebuano)
▪ Bayok (Maranao)
Songs
❑ Drinking songs
▪ Tagay (Cebuano and Waray)
❑ Songs extolling the deeds of
the dead
▪ Kanogon (Cebuano)
▪ Annako (Bontoc)
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❑
▪ 7 syllable per line (Mangyans) about
Folk human relationships, tribe traditions and
values
Songs
❑ Kissa (Tausug)
▪ Parang Sabil
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Dramatic
❑ tragedy
poem ❑ comedy
(drama) ❑ tragicomedy
- performed on ❑ farce
stage ❑ melodrama
❑ historical play
❑ religious play
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❑ Epic – deals with the exploits and

Narrative adventures of a hero
Poems ❑ Ballad – deals with a single incident and
has a singable quality
❑ Metrical tale – a short story in verse
from which lacks the singable quality of a
ballad
❑ Metrical romance – a love story in verse
form
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Importance
of ❑ expanding horizons
❑ building critical thinking skills
Literature ❑ a leap into the past
❑ appreciation for other culture and beliefs
❑ better writing skills
 Spanish
Colonial Text
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1. Religious
➢ Religious lyrics written by Ladino poets or those
verse in both Spanish and Tagalog were included in
early catechism and were used to teach Filipinos the
Spanish language.
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A. Pasyon
➢ A long narrative poem about the passion and death
of Christ
➢ Kasaysayan ng Pasyon Mahal ni Hesukristong
Panginoon Natin; Panalangin sa Mahal na Birhen
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B. Senakulo
➢ A dramatization of the pasyon, it shows the passion
and death of Christ
➢ Poon Kong Aking Ama, Lampara na Aking mga Paa
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2. Secular (non religious)

➢ Denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that
have no religious or spiritual basis
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A. Awit
➢ Colorful tales of chivalry made for singing and
chanting
➢ Florante at Laura
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B. Korido
➢ Metrical tale written in octosyllabic quatrains
➢ Ibong Adarna
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C. Prose Narratives
➢ Written to describe proper decorum
➢ Ang Bagong Robinson
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“The more you read, the more

things you will know. The more
that you learn, the more places
you’ll go.”
- Dr. Seuss