6. ACTIVITY: Riding
Riddles
• Among your housemates, prepare 5 riddles
you have encountered and/or create riddles
of your own.
• Write them in ¼ sheets of paper, including the
riddles’ answers.
• Whichever house gets to guess rightly the
most number of riddles gets 50 points in this
activity
8. ACTIVITY
1. A former fish vendor who won a lotto jackpot doesn’t like to visit
the flea market anymore because, according to him, the place
stinks.
2. A child complains every day of a meager school allowance.
3. A notorious liar gets caught again telling lies accidentally spilling
out the truth from his own mouth.
4. A young couple quarreled over lack of viand on a dinner table
and decided to part ways.
5. Overjoyed by the profit gained overnight from a small business,
the businessman sold all his properties to use as business
capital, but the market plummeted consistently two weeks after.
Think of proverbs appropriate to each
situation
9. Literary Forms
a. Hele or oyayi – lullaby
b. Ambahan (Mangyan) – 7-syllable
per line poem that are about human
relationships and social entertainment
2. Folk Songs
10. Literary Forms
Tanaga - 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."
1. Oral
Literature
11. Literary Forms
A form of folk lyric which expresses the
hopes and aspirations, the people's
lifestyles as well as their loves. These
are often repetitive and sonorous,
didactic and naive
2. Folk Songs
12. Literary Forms
a. Hele or oyayi – lullaby
b. Ambahan (Mangyan) – 7-syllable
per line poem that are about human
relationships and social entertainment
2. Folk Songs
13. Literary Forms
c. Kalusan (Ivatan) - work songs that
depict the livelihood of the people
d. Tagay (Cebuano and Waray) –
drinking song
2. Folk Songs
15. Literary Forms
a. Myths – explain how the world was
created, how certain animals possess
certain characteristics, why some
places have waterfalls, volcanoes,
mountains, flora or fauna
2. Folk Tales
16. Literary Forms
b. Legends – explain the origin of
things
Why the Pineapple Has Eyes
The Legend of Maria Makiling
2. Folk Tales
17. Literary Forms
c. Fables – used animal characters and
allegory
d. Fantastic stories – deal with
underworld characters such as
“tiyanak”, “aswang”, “kapre” and others
2. Folk Tales
19. Characteristics
• It has two distinct classifications:
religious and secular.
• It introduced Spanish as the
medium of communication.
20. Literary Forms
• 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.
Religious Literature
21. Literary Forms
• Pasyon – long narrative poem about
the passion and death of Christ. The
most popular was “Ang Mahal na
Passion ni Jesu Cristong Panignoon
Natin” by Aguino de Belen
Religious Literature
22. Literary Forms
• Awit - colorful tales of chivalry made
for singing and chanting
Example: Ibong Adarna
Secular Literature
23. Literary Forms
• Korido – metrical tale written in
octosyllabic quatrains
Example: Florante at Laura by Francisco Baltazar
• Prose Narratives – written to prescribe
proper decorum
Secular Literature
24. Literary Forms
• Senakulo –
dramatization of the
pasyon, it shows the
passion and death of
Christ
Religious Literature
26. Characteristics
• Planted seeds of nationalism in Filipinos
• Language shifted from Spanish to Tagalog
• Addressed the masses instead of the
“intelligentsia”
28. Literary Forms
• Political Essays – satires, editorials
and news articles were written to
attack and expose the evils of Spanish
rule
• Diariong Tagalog – founded by Marcelo del Pilar
• La Solidaridad – whose editor-in-chief is Graciano
Lopez-Jaena
Propaganda Literature
29. Literary Forms
• Political Novels
• Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo –
Jose Rizal’s masterpieces that paved the
way to the revolution
Propaganda Literature
30. Literary Forms
• Revolutionary Literature – more
propagandistic than literary as it is
more violent in nature and demanded
complete independence for the
country
Revolutionary
Literature
31. Literary Forms
• Political Essays – helped inflame the
spirit of revolution
• Kalayaan – newspaper of the society,
edited by Emilio Jacinto
Revolutionary
Literature
32. Literary Forms
• Poetry
• True Decalogue – Apolinario Mabini
• Katapusang Hibik ng Pilipinas
– Andres Bonifacio
• Liwanag at Dilim – Emilio Jacinto
Revolutionary
Literature
