The document provides an overview of contemporary Philippine literature and its various elements and traditions. It discusses how Philippine literature in the martial law era focused on social consciousness and political issues. It also defines key elements of literature like imagery, themes, characters and settings. Additionally, it outlines some traditional forms of Philippine poetry like epics, folks songs, proverbs and riddles that developed from ancient oral traditions. It also discusses poetic forms from the Spanish colonial era like religious lyrics, narrative poems and political pasyons.

1. CONTEMPORARY
PHILIPS ARTS FROM
THE REGION
LESSON 5 LITERATURE

2. LITERATURE
• Is considered to be a whole bulk of written works. However, another
definition of literature means a body of works that show “the best that has
been thought and said” or works that signify the highest achievements of a
particular culture.

3. • Contemporary arts Philippines literature has been described as focusing on
evoking social consciousness. Creative writing during the martial law era was
said to be confrontational in highlights social and political issues.

4. Types and elements of literature
• These creative works can be divided into two poetry and prose. Poetry refers
to expressing a feelings or an idea using figurative or symbolic language in
verse one can take note of the following elements.

5. Meaning
• A writer can use the following in order to express his or her fellings or ideas:
technical terms, idioms, dialect, new words, allusion, and connotation.

6. Figurative language
• This mainly consist of simile, metaphors, and other figures of speech that
can be used in order to express something in a different way aside from its
literal.

7. Imagery
• This consist of description and details that can trigger the readers senses.
(sight, hearing, smell and etc).

8. Sound and rhythm
• These elements make use of the spoken nature of poetry. Sound can refers
to the emphasis on certain words or rhymes. Rhythms is the just a position
of beats or the sound pattern of the work.

9. Themes or content
• This pertains to the general thoughts or idea of the whole composition in
addition, the motive and goals of the writer is reflected on the theme.

10. Styles
• Writing styles refers to the choices of words and sentence structures used to
convey the message and hold the attention of the reader.

11. Forms and Structure
• The sequence of topic and transition that makes up the whole essay reflects
the form.

12. Plot or story line
• The plot is a sequences of events that builds up the whole story. This gives
the flow of the narratives.

13. Characters
• A characters can be a person, an animals or even thing who takes parts in the
narrative of the story.

14. Settings
• The settings is the time and places in which the story happened.

15. Themes
• This is the central thoughts or idea of the whole story.

16. Language and style
• The style pertains to the choices of words the writers uses. This includes the
sentences structure and figurative language that affect the mood or tone of
the story.

17. Points of view
• This may be presented using of third-person of view, which means the
narrator may present the author himself or herself. The exposition may also
be presented using the first- person point of view.

18. Traditions and forms of Philippines poetry

19. Ethics tradition
• This consist of ancient songs, epic narratives, maxims and proverbs, prayer
and invocation and riddles.

20. Epic
• The epic narratives relates adventure of a hero with supernatural powers.
The narratives is usually chanted or sung before an audience during social
gatherings.

21. Folks songs
• This refers to a song that is transmitted orally from one generation to
another. It usually has a melody and its express ideas, emotions and thoughts
of the community. It is also known as awiting bayan in tagalog,
ambahan/awit/biyao in Cebuano, badio in ibaloy, susunan in Manobo.

22. Proverbs
• These are concise statements that teach ideas on morality and tradition. A
proverbs is usually expressed as a rhyming pairs of lines that depict two
different elements. The meaning of each elements is not readily understood
the whole points of the proverbs.

23. Riddles
• A riddles describes an object in an entirely different manners or in a way that
is it not easily understood. It may also be a question intended for someone to
discover its meanings or to answer it.

24. Shorts Poems
• A shorts poems usually has four lines with 5-12 syllables per line examples
of short poetry are children rhymes the tagalog; tanaga; and dalit; mangyan;
ambahan; ivatan laji; the bukidnon idangdang and extended basahanan; the
Palawan karang;

25. Poetic jousts
• Each region in the country has their own version of a poetic joust. For
instance, the balitao in cebu and aklan is a teasing impromptu debate. A
poetic joust may also involves marriage negotiations between two families,
which is the case for the Cebuano pamalaye, ilongo siday sa pamalaye, and
kiniray-a hungaw.

26. Spanish colonial tradition
• This poetic tradition comprises religious and secular lyrics poems and
narrative poems.

27. Metrical romances
• The metrical romance is more popularly known as biag or panagbiag in
Ilocano, impanbilay in pangasinan, kuriru in pampango, and corrido in
Cebuano, ilongo and bicol and awit or korido in tagalog.

28. Pasyon
• The pasyon, written in stanza with a 5 lines with 8 syllables per line recounts
the line of Jesus Christ. There are two types of pasyon, the traditional
pabasa, and the political pasyon. The latter is used to arouse the people to
stand in justice.

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