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

Literary Forms of Folktales

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

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 Literary Forms

- colorful tales of chivalry made for singing and chanting Example: bong 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. La Solidaridad - whose editor-in-chief is Graciano Lopez-Jaena

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

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

- helped inflame the spirit of revolution

- newspaper of the society, edited by Emilio Jacinto