Lesson 1

Question 1

It includes all literature produced before colonization like chants, proverbs, songs, and folk narratives.
Genres: folktale, fable, legend. myth, epic

Answer 1

PRE-COLONIAL PERIOD

Question 2

Spanish language became the literary language.
The first Filipino alphabet called
Alibata was replaced by the Roman Alphabet.
The teaching of Christian Doctrine became the basis of religious practices.
European legends and traditions brought here became assimilated in our songs, corridos, and moro-moro.

Answer 2

SPANISH PERIOD

Question 3

Linguistically, Americans influenced Filipinos to write using the English language.

Answer 3

AMERICAN PERIOD

Question 4

Philippine literature was interrupted from its development when Japan conquered the Philippines between 1941-1945.
themes of most poems during this period are nationalism, country, love, and life in barrios, faith, religion, and arts.

Answer 4

JAPANESE PERIOD

Question 5

Philippines was placed under martial law, initiating a regime that supress the writer’s right to free expression

Answer 5

NEW SOCIETY

Question 6

After ten years of military rule and some changes in the life of the Filipino, which started under the New Society, Martial Rule was at last lifted on January 2, 1981. Poems during this period was romantic and revolutionary

Answer 6

PERIOD OF THIRD REPUBLIC

Question 7

has been marked by adventurousness, a willingness to gamble on “non-traditional” projects.

Answer 7

POST EDSA 1 REVOLUTION

Question 8

deals with current themes and issues and it also reflects a technological culture, it also breaks traditional writing rules; hence, themes and issues we are going through now are freely written, expressed, and conveyed through technology.

Answer 8

21st CENTURY PHILIPPINE
LITERATURE