LIT 101

PHILIPPINE LITERATURE
INTRODUCTION
 LITERATURE
litera Latin word
referring to letters.
Written works based on the
ideas, emotions, and
experiences of people.
A piece of written work
which is undying. (Atienza, Ramos,
Salazar, and Nazal; PP)

The story of man

 Feelings
Contempt
Love

Pity
Sorrow

Anger Hatred Happiness

STUDYING LITERATURE
Better appreciation of literary
heritage.
Ideas from the forefathers =
Proud Filipino!

Assimilate our cultures to

others.

Manifest our deepest concern in

preserving countrys literature.

PROSE
Common flow of conversation in sentences.
Novels long narrative divided
in chapters usually based from
TTL stories.
Short Story narrative
involving 1 or more characters,
1 plot & single impression.
Plays- presented on a stage
divided into acts.
Legends fictitious narratives
dealing about origins.
News a report of everyday
events in society.
GENERAL TYPES
Fables These deals with animals and
inanimate things who speak and act like
people with the purpose of enlightening
children.
Anecdotes Based on writers
imagination which aim to bring out life
lessons to readers.
Essay This expresses standpoint of the
writer.
Biography deals with the life of a
person.
Oration It is a formal treatment on a
subject intended to be spoken in public.
 GENERAL TYPES

POETRY
Expressions in verse, with measure and rhyme, stanza, and tone.
poetry that expresses emotions and feelings of the
B. Lyric Poetry
poet. Short, Simple, and Easy to understand.
A. Narrative Poetry describes
important events either real or unreal.
Folksongs short poems intended to be sung having a common
Epic narrative about heroic exploits often theme such as: love, despair, happiness, sorrow, hope.
under supernatural control. Ex. Sitsiritsit

Ex. Harvest Song of Aliguyon (Amador

Sonnets - lyric poem of 14 lines dealing with emotions, feelings,
Daguio)
and ideas.
Ex. Santang Buds ( Alfonso Santos)

Metrical Tale written in verse and can be

Elegy - expresses grief and melancholy.
classified either as a ballad or metrical Ex. The Lovers Death ( Ricaredo Demetillo)
romance. Ode - a poem expressed with dignity and no definite syllables
Ex. Bayani ng Bukid ( Al Perez) and lines in a stanza.

Psalms song praising God or Virgin Mary & contain philosophy of

Ballads considered as the shortest and life.
simplest in terms of structure and incident.
love, mythical, moral, war, & sea Songs have measures of 12 syllables and sung with guitar or
banduria
Ex. Florante at Laura by Francisco Balagtas

Corridos have measures of eight syllables and recited to a

martial beat
Ex. Ibong Adarna
 POETRY
C. Dramatic Poetry

Comedy komos means

festivity/ revelry
- usually light and written to
amuse and given with happy ending. Farce exaggerated comedy wherein
situations are too ridiculous to be true.
Melodrama- used in musical plays/
opera.
Social Poems pictures the life id
- Usually sad but provides happy today and bring about changes in
ending to the main character.
social conditions.

Tragedy involves the hero

struggling mightily against all odds
but end up dying.