The document discusses various forms and genres of pre-colonial Philippine literature including ancient Filipino poetry, folktales, epics, and folk songs. Some key points discussed are that ancient Filipino poetry took forms like riddles, epigrams/maxims, chants, and poetic structures like tanaga and ambahan. Myths, legends, and fables were common folktales that sometimes involved the gods or taught moral lessons through animals. Epics often took the form of long narrative poems recounting heroic deeds and several regions had their own epic traditions. Folk songs expressed the people's culture and way of life through different song types.

1. The Philippine Pre-colonial Literature

2. Literary Developmentgeography

3. experiences

4. aesthetic ideals

5. physical environment, social and economic organization of the people

6. nationalismPre-colonial LiteratureThelma V. Villaflores

7. Philippine Ancient Literaturethe literature of a formative past by the various groups of people who once inhabited our archipelago

8. a literature of varying human interestPre-colonial LiteratureThelma V. Villaflores

9. Ancient Filipino Poetryextension of Southeast Asian cultures

10. product of formative age

11. close to the religious and political organizations of the ancient Filipinos

12. ancient Filipino verses were addressed to the ears rather than the to the eyesPre-colonial LiteratureThelma V. Villaflores

13. Ancient Filipino Poetryverses composed and sung were regarded as group property

14. versification

15. octosyllabic – legendary and religious poems

16. dodecasyllabic - romancePre-colonial LiteratureThelma V. Villaflores

17. Terms to RememberVerse – a single line of a poem

18. Rhyme – the similarity of sounds (accented vowels and all succeeding sounds), usually at the end of the lines

19. Rhyme scheme – the pattern of end rhyme in a poemPre-colonial LiteratureThelma V. Villaflores

20. Terms to RememberRhythm – the cadence of poetic lines or prose passages, often denoting the regular, patterned recurrence of strong and weak elements

21. unifies a literary work, to emphasize ideas, to create mood, to reinforce content, and to heighten emotional responsePre-colonial LiteratureThelma V. Villaflores

22. Terms to RememberMeter – the repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry

23. Stanza – a group of lines that form a unit of poetry

24. couplet

25. tercet

26. quatrainPre-colonial LiteratureThelma V. Villaflores

27. Terms to RememberMetaphor - A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.Pre-colonial LiteratureThelma V. Villaflores

28. Ancient Filipino PoetryDalawangbalon, Hindi malingon.Sa araw ay bungbong, Sa gabi ay dahon.Pre-colonial LiteratureThelma V. Villaflores

29. Ancient Filipino Poetry‘Sang dalagangmarikit, Nakauposatinik. Kung bayaa’ynabubuhay, Kung himasi’ynamamatay.Pre-colonial LiteratureThelma V. Villaflores

30. Ancient Filipino PoetryRIDDLEmade up of one or more measured lines with rhyme and may consist of 4 to 12 syllables

31. showcases the Filipino wit, literary talent and keen observation of the surroundingsPre-colonial LiteratureThelma V. Villaflores

32. Ancient Filipino PoetryRIDDLEinvolves references to one or two images that symbolize the characteristics of an unknown object that is to be guessedPre-colonial LiteratureThelma V. Villaflores

33. Ancient Filipino PoetryKung sino’ngpumutak, ay siyangnanganak. Kung di ukol Di bubukol.Pre-colonial LiteratureThelma V. Villaflores

34. Ancient Filipino PoetryEPIGRAMS / MAXIMS / PROVERBS (SALAWIKAIN & SAWIKAIN)short poems that have been customarily used and served as laws or rules on good behavior by our ancestors

35. allegories or parables that impart lessons for the youngPre-colonial LiteratureThelma V. Villaflores

36. Ancient Filipino PoetryEPIGRAMS / MAXIMS / PROVERBS (SALAWIKAIN & SAWIKAIN) often expressing a single idea, that is usually satirical and has a witty ending

37. Maxims - rhyming couplets (5,6,8 syllables)Pre-colonial LiteratureThelma V. Villaflores

38. Ancient Filipino PoetryIkawangnagnanakawngbigaskoLumuwasanaangmgamatamoMamagasanaangkatawanmoPatayinkangmgaanito.Pre-colonial LiteratureThelma V. Villaflores

39. Ancient Filipino PoetryCHANTS (BULONG)used in witchcraft and/or enchantmentPre-colonial LiteratureThelma V. Villaflores

40. Ancient Filipino PoetrySa hinaba-habangprusisyon Sa simbahan din palaangtuloy.Helehelebagokyeme.Pre-colonial LiteratureThelma V. Villaflores

41. Ancient Filipino PoetrySAYINGS (KASABIHAN)used in teasing or to comment on a person‘ actuationsPre-colonial LiteratureThelma V. Villaflores

42. Ancient Filipino Poetry"Catitibaycatolossacalingdatnangagos!aco’Imomontinglomotsaiyo’Ipopolopot."Pre-colonial LiteratureThelma V. Villaflores

43. Ancient Filipino Poetry"KatitibaykaTulosSakalingdatnangagos!Ako'ymumuntinglumotsaiyo'ypupulupot."Pre-colonial LiteratureThelma V. Villaflores

44. Ancient Filipino PoetryNag-almusal mag-isa, Kaninglamig, tinapa; Nahulogangkutsara... Ikawnasana, Sinta. Pre-colonial LiteratureThelma V. Villaflores

45. Ancient Filipino PoetryTANAGAa quatrain with seven syllables each with the same rhyme at the end of each line

46. no title 7-7-7-7 AABBPre-colonial LiteratureThelma V. Villaflores

47. Ancient Filipino PoetryMODERN TANAGA7-7-7-7

48. AABB, ABAB, ABBA

49. AAAB, BAAA, or ABCD

50. title - optionalPre-colonial LiteratureThelma V. Villaflores

51. Ancient Filipino PoetryGAYUMATahakngtingin, tulakngsulyap, yakap, lapatngtitigsabalikat,hatakpa, kindat, hatak.Pre-colonial LiteratureThelma V. Villaflores

52. Ancient Filipino Poetrybishopsa sermon umalulongngdasal at orasyonnangwalangsumang-ayonnaghamongmagpakulong!Pre-colonial LiteratureThelma V. Villaflores

53. Ancient Filipino PoetryAko mana manrigsansa maypanayopinggan sa may tupas balian ako udnakarigsantinambongbahayawansinag-ulibatangan.Pre-colonial LiteratureThelma V. Villaflores