PHILIPPINE

ORAL
LORE
 ORAL LORE
✗ Oral tradition or oral lore, is a form of human communication wherein
knowledge, art, ideas and cultural material is received, preserved, and
transmitted orally from one generation to another.
✗ Oral tradition is information, memories, and knowledge held in common
by a group of people, over many generations; it is not the same as
testimony or oral history.

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 ORAL LORE
✗ “Oral tradition" refers to the recall and transmission of a specific,
preserved textual and cultural knowledge through vocal utterance.
✗ As an academic discipline, it refers both to a set of objects of study and
the method by which they are studied.

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 Philippine
1 Literature during
Pre-Colonial
Period
The oral literature of the precolonial Filipinos
bore the marks of the community.
The subject was invariably the common
experience of the people constituting the
village-food-gathering, creature and objects of
nature, work in the home, field, forest or sea,
caring for children, etc. 

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 Forms of oral traditions or
oral lore
1. Oral Literature 2. Folks Songs 3. Folk Tales
✗ Riddles ✗ Lullabies ✗ Myths
✗ Proverbs ✗ Love Songs ✗ Legends
✗ Work Songs ✗ Epics
✗ Drinking Songs

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• Performed arts that uses words
as a medium of communication
ORAL
• Provides a portait of the
meaning of life.
LITER
• Contains the history of the
society and its experience. ATURE
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RIDDLES
✗ Statements that contain superficial words, but they function figuratively
and as metaphors, and are in the form of questions.
✗ These are questions that demand deeper answers.
✗ Deals with everyday life.
✗ It usually has mundane things as answers.
✗ This is used in the past as a form of game in small or large gatherings.

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PROVERBS
✗ These are statements that are considered as wise.
✗ These are usually given by parents or elders of the community.
✗ There is belief that experience is the best teacher.
✗ To express broader truth, it often uses metaphors.
✗ It uses metaphor

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✗ inspired by the reaction of
people to the environment.
✗ express feelings aroused by
their works
✗ Sorrows and Joys of life are
FOLK
fully represented
✗ In Folk Songs is found the
SONGS
spontaneous and informal
expression of the people's
nature .

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LULLABIES
✗ Philippine lullabies tend to be soporific in tune and sometimes repetitious
in text.” (Eugenio 1996)
✗ The slow and steady swaying of the cradle mimics the rhythm of the song.
✗ The text or lyrics of the song also express meaningful messages that often
describe family life or impart messages such as a mother’s high hopes for
her child when he or she grows up.

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Love songs
✗ About human relationships
✗ Social entertainment
✗ Serve as a tool for teaching the young

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work songs

✗ Depict the livelihood of the people often sung to go

with the movement of workers.

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drinking songs

✗ Sung during carousals

✗ Dirges and lamentations extolling the deeds of the
dead

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✗ Any short narrative in prose
told orally among the folk.
FOLK
✗ Fictional folk narratives in
prose.
TALES

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MYTHS
✗ Traditional stories occurring in a timeless past.
✗ They involve supernatural elements and are beyond the
frontiers of logic.
✗ They reflect both universal worries and the worries of
specific cultures.

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LEGENDS
✗ Traditional narrative or collection of related narratives, popularly
regarded as historically factual but a mixture of fact and fiction.
✗ A legend is set in a specific place at a specific time; the subject is
often a heroic historical personage.
✗ Are stories about real people who are famous for doing something
brave or extraordinary.

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EPICS
✗ Are long heroic narratives in verse which recount the
adventures of tribal heroes and in the process express
the customs, beliefs, and ideals of the people who sing
them.

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CHARACT
ERISTICS
• Based on oral traditions.
• Explain how the world was created.
• The language of oral literature was the language of daily life.
• They contain homilies, didactic material, and expressions of homespun
philosophy, making them often quoted by elders and headmen in
talking to inferiors.
• They are rich in similes and metaphors.

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Thank
You!
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