Latin word of literature

defines as "the total writigs belonging to a given language or people" or "the class or total writings or a given period or country."

has a natural aesthetic appeal depending on the genre. Ang said, literature has an aesthetic appeal and thus possesses a sense of beauty

It is not only intended for entertainment. A good literary work gives intellectual value in order to help readers to be critical thinkers.

This is the quality associated with the emotional power of literature, such that it should move us deeply and stir our creative imagination, giving and evoking vision above and beyond the plane of ordinary life and experience.

literature is also a tool for the foundation of religion.

According to_______ literature is also a tool for the foundation of religion

A great work of literature endures; it can be read again and again as each reading gives fresh delight and new insights and open new worlds of meaning and experience. (Ang, 2012, p. 2).

A good literature should have passed the test of time. This refers to literary works that have been handed down from one generation to another

Literature presents peculiar way/s on how man sees life as evidenced by the formation of his ideas, forms structures, and expressions which are marked by their memorable substance

refers to the various unwritten and written works by Filipinos. Those works reveal the lives of Filipinos from ancient times to the present.

According to ______ the Literatures of the Philippines of Filipino literature refers to the oral or written expression of the feelings and emotions, thoughts and ideas or our people, the facts of their daily life, their social practices and religious beliefs

3 classification of literature (genre)

A genre in literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.

a form of language that has no formal metrical structure. It applies a natural flow of speech and ordinary grammatical structure, rather than rhythmic structure, such as in the case of traditional poetry.

a mode of fictional representation through dialogue and performance.

2 primary category of prose

a literary work of imaginative narration, either oral or written, fashioned to entertain and to make the readers think and more so, to feel.

a literary work of REAL LIFE narration or expression based on history and facts whose main thrust is an intellectual appeal to convey facts, theories, and generalizations, or concepts about a particular topic.

A long narrative divides into chapters. The events can be taken frome true to life stories and spans a long period of time

A narrative involving one or more characters, one plot and one single impression

This is presented on a stage, is divided into acts and each acts has many scenes

These are fictitious narratives usually about origins

Type of short story that features animals as the main characters

Type of fiction set in the past and features historical figures and events

A type of nonfiction that tells the story of the author’s life

Type of nonfiction that tells the story of someone else’s life

Type of nonfiction that expresses the author’s opinion on a topic

2 types of poetry

This form deacribes important events in life either real or imaginary

This is an extended narrative about heroic exploits often under supernatural control

This is a narrative which is written in verse and can be classified either as a ballad or a metrical romance

Considered the shortest and simplest. It has a simple structure and tells of a single incident

Refers to that kind of poetry meant to be sung to the accompaniment of a lyre. This applies to any type of poetry that expresses emotions and feelings of the poet Short,simple and easy to understand

These are short poems intended to be sung. The common theme is love,despair,grief,doubt,joy,hope,andsorry

Is a lyric poem of 14 lines dealing with an emotion or feeling or and idea

A Lyric poem which expresses feelings of grief and melancholy, and whose theme is death

This is a poem of a noble feeling, expressed with dignity, with ni definite number of syllables or definite number of lines in a stanza

This is a song praising God or the Virgin Marry and containing philosophy of life

These have measures if 12 syllables and slowly sung to the accompaniment of a guitar or banduria

these have measures of 8 syllables and recited to a martial beat

This form usually is light and written with the purpose of amusing, and usually has a happy ending.

This is usually used in musical plays with the opera. Today, this is related to tragedy just as the farce is to comedy. It arouse immediate and intense emotion and is usually sad but there is a happy ending for the principal character.

This involves the hero struggling mightily against dynamic forces; he meets death or ruin without success and satisfaction obtained by the protagonist in a comedy

A story told with dialogue, music, and dancing

Elements of poetry

It is what is being talked about in the poem

Referd to the message of the poem

This is a emotional atmosphere that port wants tue readers to feel

It is how the readers pictures the poem in his mind

Five senses

Possesses figuration meaning so it should not be taken literally.

Comparing two things using like or as E.g. your face is big as a seed

Uses direct comparison of two unlike things or ideas E.g. my father is a carabao in the field

Gives human traits to inanimate objects or ideas

The result of combination of elements- Tone color aliteration,assonance,consonance,rhyme,repetition,anaphora

Elements of fiction

Many oral pieces became lost in the wave of the new literary influence brought about by the Spanish colonization

Literature in this period is based on tradition and reflecting daily life

Oral pieces told stories which explained heroes and their adventures

This period in Philippine literature history represented the ethos of the people before the arrival of a huge cultural influence - literature as a cultural tradition, than a form of art that had a particular set of decorum.

battle of wits among participants

wise sayings that contain a metaphor used to teach as a food for thought

a mono-riming heptasyllabic quatrain expressing insights and lessons on life is "more emotionally charged than the terse proverb and thus has affinities with the folk lyric

It is a form of folk lyric which expresses the hopes and aspirations, the people's lifestyles as well as their loves. This is often repetitive, sonorous, didactic and naïve.

lullaby

7-syllable per line poem that are about human relationships and social entertainment.

work songs that depict the livelihood of the people

drinking song

song of lamentation for the dead

These are "narratives of sustained length based on oral tradition revolving around supernatural events or heroic deeds" (Arsenio Manuel)

Types of Folktales

two distinct classitications in spanish colonization period: religious and secular

It introduced Spanish as the medium of communication

Religious lyrics written by ladino poets or those versed in both Spanish and Tagalog were included in early catechism and were used to teach Filipinos the Spanish language.

long narrative poem about the passion and death of Christ. The most popular was "Ang Mahal na Passion ni Jesus Cristong Panginoon Natin" by Aguino de Belen

dramatization of the pasyon, it shows the passion and death of Christ

colorful tales of chivalry made for singing and chanting Example: Ibong Adarna

metrical tale written in octosyllabic quatrains Example: Florante at Laura by Francisco Baltazar

written to prescribe proper decorum

Reformatory in objective

satires, editorials and news articles were written to attack and expose the evils of Spanish rule

founded by Marcelo del Pilar ii.

whose editor-in-chief is Graciano Lopez-Jaena