lesson 1 Flashcards
literature comes from what latin word?
littera
This latin word means writing formed with letters
littera
which definition defines literature as a body of writing belonging to a given language or people?
Britannica
which definition defines literature as written artistic works, especially those with a high and lasting artistic value?
Cambridge Dictionary
Belonging to or characteristic of a particular region or location
Geographic
Language form or language use
Linguistic
Pertains to a characteristic of a group of people sharing a common culture, religion, language, or the likes
Ethnic
This existed before the Spanish occupation in the 1500s.
Pre-colonial period
It is oral in nature and is full of lessons and ideas about life, its blessings, and its consequences.
Pre-colonial period
It contains ideas from birth to the grave.
pre-colonial period
a literature that is spoken, a literature that is passed on from one generation to another through storytelling or singing
oral literature
a song that originates in traditional popular culture or that is written in such a style.
folk songs
These are sung to put babies to sleep
Hele
These are sung during drinking sessions.
tagay
These are used by young men to capture the heart of the girl that they love.
harana
These are the lamentations that contain the roll of good deeds that the dead has usually done to immortalize his or her good image.
songs of death
These are the songs or chants that are usually given during exorcisms and thanksgiving during good harvest.
religious songs
a story originating in popular culture, typically passed on by word of mouth.
folk tales
Types of folk tales
Myths, Legends, Fables, Epics
Natural and strange occurrences of
the earth
myths
The natives understood mysteries around them
legends
Brief stories that cater children of the native
fables
These contain encounters of fighters, stereotypical princes, or heroes that save a damsel in distress.
epics
These are statements that contain superficial words, but they function figuratively and as metaphors, and are in the form of questions.
bugtong
These are the statements that are considered as wise. These are usually given by parents or elders of the community. There is the belief that experience is the best teacher.
salawikain
The start of the Philippine’s more colorful history took place on March 6, 1521 when Ferdinand Magellan docked on the shores of Homonhon.
spanish colonial
The Filipinos were then called _____, meaning they were latinized.
ladinos
Filipinos were called two things.
Taga-bayan, and taga-bukid or taga-bundok
Revolves around the life and the death of Jesus Christ
religious literature
it is about the
passion (journey and suffering) and the death of Jesus Christ
pasyon
it is the re-enactment of the Pasyon
senakulo
it depicts the European society through love and fame, but can also be narrative about a journey, just like Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. It is also considered religious, because it usually depicts the battle between the Christians and the Saracens or the Moros.
komedya
Revolves around tales of valiance and adventure
secular literature
these are tales of chivalry where a knight saves a princess.
awit
is a metrical tale or tale that follows the structure of a poem.
korido
These were in the forms of satires, editorials, and news articles that aimed to attack the Spanish Rule
propaganda literature
it was written in Iloilo (1876), six years after the Cavite Revolt attacking the friars in the Philippines. He exposed how some of the friars were greedy, ambitious and immoral.
Ang Fray Botod by Graciano Lopez Jaena
a humorous and sarcastic dig in answer to Fr. Jose Rodriguez in the novel NOLI of Rizal, published in Barcelona in 1888. He used Dolores Manapat as pen-name here.
Kaiingat Kayo by Marcelo Del Pilar
Exposes that sparked revolution and resistance in the hearts of Filipinos.
revolutionary literature
an outline of obligations just like Ten Commandments, it is likewise called Ang Dekalogo.
Katungkulang Gagawin ng mga Anak ng Bayan (Obligations of our Countrymen) by Andres Bonifacio
a collection of essays on different subjects like freedom, work, faith, government and love of country.
liwanag at dilim by Emilio Jacinto
this essay highlights the establishment of the Philippine republic and its subsequent doom due to disunity among the Filipinos.
El Desarollo Y Caida de la Republica Filipina (The Rise and Fall of the Philippine Republic) by Apolinario Mabini
this is a sequel to the Noli. While the Noli exposed the evils in society, the Fili exposed those in the government and in the church
El filibusterismo by Dr. Jose Rizal
this period was considered imitative of the American Model, instead of asking the students to write originals, students ended up following the form of American poets.
american colonial
it still followed the style of the old, but had contents that ranged from free writing to societal under the Americans
poetry
popularly known as “Batute”, created his own generation with his book of poems.
Jose Corazon de Jesus
returned to the awit form, retelling the history of the Philippines under Spain, the coming of the U.S under the guise of friendship to take over from Spain.
sa dakong silangan (1928)
was usually used in the American Period to degrade the Spanish rule and to immortalize the heroism of the men who fought under the Katipunan.
drama
spearheaded a movement to supplant the komedya with a new type of drama, the sarsuwela, a Filipino adaptation of the Spanish zarzuela.
severino reyes
is a sarsuwela (drama in the form singing) drawn from the period of Revolution, depicting the cruelty and corruption of friars and the heroism of the soldiers of the Katipunan.
walang sugat (1902)
took up Dr. Jose Rizal’s portrayal of social conditions by colonial repression
remake novels
is best known for his trilogy of Fulgencia Galbillo(1907), Capitan Bensio (1907), Alfaro (1909), depicting the 30 years of colonial repression by the Spanish rule.
Gabriel Beato Francisco
was his fist novel showing the complex interrelations of issues and people contemporary Philippine society.
Madaling araw (1909) by Inigo Ed. Regalado
filtered Filipino writer’s works strictly.
Japanese Colonial
There was minimal freedom of speech and of the press.
japanese colonial
A poem of free verse that the Japanese like
haiku
Made up of 17 syllables divided into 3 lines (5-7-5 syllables)
haiku
It is allegorical in meaning, short and covers a wide scope in meaning
haiku
A poem composed of four lines with each line having seven syllables
tanaga
Like the Haiku, it is short, but has measure and rhyme. It is also written in aaaa or aabb, abba, or abab rhyming pattern
tanaga
There are a lot of literary innovations that are adapted and created by Filipinos.
contemporary
There are a lot of new forms from the basic genres of literature; thus, proving how far it will go on from here.
contemporary
The new trends have been used and introduced to meet the needs and tastes of the new generation. 21st Century learners are demanded to be ICT inclined to compete with the style and format of writing as well. New codes or lingos are used to add flavor in the literary pieces produced nowadays.
contemporary
