PRE-COLONIAL ERA Flashcards
Ethnic literature may be classified into three groups.
folk speech, folk songs, and
folk narratives.
It reveals subtle resemblances between two unlike objects; it whets one’s wits and sensitizes one’s perceptions of things often taken for granted.
Riddle/bugtong
These instill values and teach lessons.
proverbs and aphorisms
These are short, pithy sayings, which encapsulate and preserve a community’s beliefs, norms, and codes of behavior.
Proverbs
The idea, strength in unity, is expressed through the figure of the ____, a commodity in the Tagalog area.
abaca
It is rather extended form of wise saying; a monorhyming heptasyllabic quatrain, which expresses insights and lessons on living.
Tanaga
these are extended didactic sayings; these verse forms often employ a central metaphor to convey their thesis.
Basahanan
These are sung to put children to sleep
Lullabyes
These songs are sometimes senseless, always playful and light, they reflect the child’s carefree world; they may be sung and danced to
Children’s songs
These songs are most prominent in many folk lyrics. Some verse forms are sad lyrics about unrequited love, while others celebrates the lovers’ power to demolish—or at least their will to demolish—whatever barrier divides them.
Romantic love songs
Songs that Many celebrate the beloved’s beauty while expressing the lover’s disconsolation without her.
Courtship songs
A poem with seven syllables per line, the ending syllables following a rhyme scheme, frequently deals with love, though not always romantic love, as some are about parental love and friendship; is also used as a form of social entertainment and as a tool for teaching the young.
Ambahan
Songs which foster cohesiveness within the community. They depict the different forms of livelihood in the country—farming, fishing, embroidery, salt making, pottery, hunting,
rowing, woodcutting.
Work songs
Songs sung during carousals. Often brief, always merry, almost hedonistic, many of them originated in the Bicol area, where they are called tigsik.
Drinking songs
Songs of lamentations, in which the deeds of the dead are recounted.
Death songs/Dirges