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

Jose Rizal's masterpieces that paved the way to the revolution

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

- Reformatory in objective

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

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

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.

- work songs that depict the livelihood of the people

- founded by Marcelo del Pilar ii. La Solidaridad - whose editor-in-chief is Graciano Lopez-Jaena

- written to prescribe proper decorum

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

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

- more propagandistic than literary as it is more violent in nature and demanded complete independence for the country.

- lullaby

- 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

- newspaper of the society, edited by Emilio Jacinto

- 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

- helped inflame the spirit of revolution

- dramatization of the pasyon, it shows the passion and death of Christ Literary Forms

- drinking song

- song of lamentation for the dead

- 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.

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Literary Forms of Folktales