HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT of PHIL LIT

Question 1

Spontaneous and instinctive
Expressed in own dialect
Crude in ideology and phraseology

Answer 1

Pre spanish literature

Question 2

Deal with the creation of the universe, origin if man, gods and supernatural beings, native cultural heroes

Answer 2

Myths

Question 3

Myths that are regarded as true by the narrator and audience but are set in a period more remote

Answer 3

Legends

Question 4

Animals as characters

Impart lessons

Answer 4

Fables

Question 5

Stories of the underworld

Answer 5

Fantastic stories

Question 6

Didactism for the contents

Conciseness for the form

Answer 6

Proverbs

Question 7

Short folk poems – 7 syllables,4 lines

Full of metaphor

Answer 7

Tanaga

Question 8

Traditional verbal expression containing one or two descriptive elements, referent if the elements is to be guessed

Answer 8

Riddle (bugtong)

Question 9

Narratives if sustained length based on oral tradition

Either chanted or sung

Answer 9

Epics

Question 10

Based on daily activities

Answer 10

Rituals

Question 11

7 syllables of unrhymed couplets

Answer 11

Ambahan

Question 12

Verbal joust in song

Answer 12

Bikal

Question 13

Sung by paid singers

Answer 13

Siday

Question 14

Courting in metaphors accompanied by kudyapi and korlong

Answer 14

Balak

Question 15

Dirges sung by women during wakes

Answer 15

Parahaya

Question 16

Prayer in memory if the dead

Answer 16

Dalit

Question 17

Lullaby

Answer 17

Oyayi