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
include The Story of Bathala, and Ang Pag-aaway ng Dagat at Langit.
Myths
are stories that explain the origin of things and phenomena in the surrounding world.
Legends
Some of the most famous legends are: The Legend of Maria Makiling, The Legend of Mayon, and The Legend of Sampaguita,
Legends
are brief stories for the children of the native Filipinos.
Fables
These talk about supernatural or extraordinary people and usually follow in the form of narration that demonstrates a useful truth.
Fables
stories use animals as characters to represent a porticular attribut characteristic. One of the most orally narrated Filipino fables is Ang Kunsho at ang Pagong,
Fables
courtship songs used by young men to capture the heart of the girl they love,
Serenade (Harana )
are stories that deal with the power of nature-personified, their submission to a deity (Bathala), and how the deity is responsible for the blessings and the curses in the form of calamities.
Folk Tales (Kwentong Bayan)
are often passed on from generation to generation by word of mouth
Folk Tales (Kwentong Bayan)
