History of Philippine Literature

Question 1

the interrelated conditions in which something exist or occurs (example: setting in the Philippines)

Answer 1

CONTEXT

Question 2

a fixed point in time which a series of years is reckoned in the Philippine literature

Answer 2

ERA

Question 3

large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background

Answer 3

ETHNIC

Question 4

a type of art, literature or music characterized by a specific form, content and style

Answer 4

GENRE

Question 5

a particular region where the text came from

Answer 5

GEOGRAPHIC

Question 6

language used in the text

Answer 6

LINGUISTIC

Question 7

literary works written and published by authors

Answer 7

LITERARY TEXTS

Question 8

a movement in art to root out what is called fantastic and romantic in literature and art, to insert what is real

Answer 8

REALISM

Question 9

one of the recurring themes that are linked to either imagination, idealism, inspiration, intuition, or individualism

Answer 9

ROMANTICISM

Question 10

a main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work, which may be stated directly or indirectly.

Answer 10

THEME

Question 11

Filipinos already have their literature even before colonization.
They use their vernaculars (mother tongue) as a medium in writing different literary pieces in different forms/genres like legends, myths, proverbs, and others.
Their purpose for writing is to preserve their history but mostly were for entertainment and was orally transmitted (oral literature)

Answer 11

PRE-COLONIAL PERIOD

Question 12

Influenced the Filipinos in almost everything like beliefs and religion as well as literature from oral to published literary pieces
Writers used Spanish and Tagalog
Introduced genres like novels, poems, awit, korido, zarzuela, and cenaculo
Revolutionary and nationalistic themes emerged

Answer 12

SPANISH COLONIAL PERIOD (1565-1896)

Question 13

Taught Filipinos the English language
Literature was written in native language, Tagalog and English.
Introduced the Western writing styles like Romanticism and Realism
Different literary forms like newspapers, essays, and articles were explored by the writers.

Answer 13

AMERICAN COLONIAL PERIOD (1910-1941)

Question 14

Poetry (haiku, tanaga, usual form)
5-7-5 syllable pattern
Literature written in English stopped.
Filipino English writers started to write in Filipino.

Answer 14

JAPANESE COLONIAL PERIOD (1941-1945)

Question 15

Flexible and dynamic Filipino writers both in English and Filipino
Revived the Philippine literature in Tagalog used different genres (magazines, newspapers, comics, songs, and many more)

Answer 15

CONTEMPORARY PERIOD (1960 to present)

Question 16

author of sidok

Answer 16

Estelito B. Jacob