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Quarter 2 Genres 2024
Quarter 2 Genres 2024
Quarter 2 Genres 2024
Prepared by:
Maileen V. Sarsagat
PRAYER
DURING OUR CLASS
ATTENDANCE
REVIEW
What is a literary
genre?
Literary Texts Across the World
LESSON 2
Talinghaga
or metaphor is dominant in any riddles as it discloses
subtle comparisons between unlike things
• For the Ilongos, paktakon and for the Bicolanos,
atototdon.
Here are the examples:
Tigmo Baboy sa lasang (A wild pig in the forest)
Ang tunok puro lansang. (Is covered with spikes)
Answer: Nangka (Jackfruit)
Heto na ang prinsesa (Here comes the princess)
Nakaupo sa tasa. (Sitting atop a cup)
Answer: Kasuy
Pag may tyaga,
may nilaga
Proverbs
(Salawikain)
b. Proverbs – are called sawikain or salawikain in Tagalog or
sarsarita in Ilocano. Philippine proverbs are wise sayings that
prescribe codes of behavior, mirror societal norms, traditions,
and beliefs and impart lessons in brief, rhyming verse. Read the
examples below:
Dandansoy- Visayas (an Ilonggo folk song that is sung by even non-
Illonggos. It’s about the singer saying goodbye to Dansoy as he chases
after a girl.)
Folk Tales
H. Folk tales (Kwentong Bayan) –
are stories that deal with the
power of nature-personified, their
submission to a deity (Bathala),
and how the deity is responsible
for the blessings and the curses in
the form of calamities.
Fables
I. FABLES – are brief stories for the children of
the native Filipinos. These talk about
supernatural or extraordinary people and usually
narrates to demonstrate a moral or life lesson and
use animals as characters to represent a
particular attribute or characteristic.
Maileen V. Sarsagat
REVIEW
Identify the following:
• Wise sayings that • are forms of folk lyric
prescribe codes of speak volumes of the
behavior, mirror typical rural lives and
societal norms, reflect people’s
traditions, and beliefs aspirations and
and impart lessons in lifestyles.
brief, rhyming verse.
Proverbs Songs
Lullaby Serenade
•are used to give •are symbolic narratives,
respect, excuse, or usually of unknown
apology to unseen or origin and at least
other elemental spirits partly traditional, that
our ancestors ostensibly relate actual
believed in to deliver events and are
them from danger or especially associated
harm. with religious belief.
Chants Myths
•are stories that • stories that deal with
the power of nature-
explain the origin personified, their
of things and submission to a deity
phenomena in the (Bathala), and how the
deity is responsible for
surrounding the blessings and the
world. curses in the form of
calamities.
a.
b.
f. Fiction – has genres that can be defined as narrative literary
works whose content is produced by the imagination and is not
necessarily based on fact.
Examples are the following:
i. Short Story – is a brief fiction that can be read in one seating
and is not able to support any subplots.