Lesson 2 Flashcards
demonstrated rich-lived experiences orally expressed in their folk speeches, songs, narratives, and indigenous rituals. and mimetic dances. These are passed down from generation to generation,
Pre- Colonial Filipinos
mystifying statements or questions phrased and rhymed to require ingenuity in determining its answer,
Riddles
These are presented as a game and considered as forms of entertainment during the earlier times
Riddles
forms of folk lyric speak volumes of the typical rural lives and reflect people’s aspirations and lifestyles.
Songs
What are some song categories of our ancestors?
Folk Songs ( Awit ng Bayan)
Lullaby ( Oyayi )
Serenade (Harana )
Folk Song in Filipino
Awith ng Bayan
Lullaby in Filipino
Oyayi
Serenade in Filipino
Harana
are long narrative accounts of heroic exploits.
Epics
are wise sayings that prescribe codes of behovior, mirror societal norms, traditions, and beliefs and impart lessons in brief, rhyming verse.
Proverbs
These are called sawikain or salawikain in Tagalog or sarsarita in Ilocano,
Proverbs
These are songs with lines often described as repetitive, didactic, and
sonorous.
Folk Songs (Awit ng Bayan)
These are soothing songs often sung to put babies to sleep.
Lullaby
used to give respect, excuse, or apology to unseen or other elemental spirits our ancestors believed in to deliver them from danger or harm
Chants
symbolic narratives, usually of unknown origin and at least partly traditional, that ostensibly relate actual events and are especially associated with religious belief.
Myths
