Grade 8 Lesson - Afro- Asian Literature

1. INTRODUCTION TO PHILIPPINE LITERARATURE

2. The legendary age produced oral literature
handed down from the elders.
We can conclude that the literature of this
period consisted of magical incantations,
myths, legends, and folktales.
Early ancestors believed in sun and moon
worship, tree worship, and worship of other
forms of nature.

3. Myths and legends explained
the origins of the universe,
human races, the first man
and woman, and the land
regions.

4.  Written by
PEDRO
BUCANEG
 originated
from
ILOCOS

5.  written by
Amador
Daguio Jr.
originated
from
IFUGAOS

6.  written by
PEDRO
ALCANTARA
MONTECLAR
O.
originated

7. originated
from
MARANAW.
 epic of
Maranao.
 UNKNOWN
author.

8.  adapted by
the the
MUSLIM of
SULU.
 written by
MARLON

9.  originated
from
MARANAW.
 written by
BARTOLOM
E DEL

10. Philippines: Pearl of the orient seas
INTRODUCTION TO PHILIPPINE LITERARATURE

11.  introduced CHRISTIANITY to
the Philippines;
 Much of the literature produced
during this period were religious
in nature.

12.  the early book written in Spanish
occupation;
 the story of the life of Christ
beginning with the
ANNUCIATION and ending with
CRUCIFIXION.

13.  a type of drama
and its subject
was a conflict
between the
Christians and
the Moros, with
Christianity
triumphing at the

14.  was a long narrative in verse
narrating the deeds of a legendary
hero;
 provide reading material for masses;
 The setting was foreign and some of
the incidents absurd and fantastic.

15.  is in dodecasyllabic verse;
 are fabricated stories from writers’
imagination although the setting and
characters are European;
 refers to chanting.

16.  founded by ANTONIO LUNA;
 medium of reform;
 newspaper

17.  wrote by Dr. Jose
Rizal
 Touch me Not
 Based on the story
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
written by Harriet
Beecher Stowe
WORK of
HEART
CRISOSTOMO
IBARRA and
MARIA CLARA

18.  wrote by Dr. Jose Rizal
 The Subversive or The Reign of
Greed
 sequel of Noli Me Tangere
WORK of
MIND
DON SIMON

19.  The two novels are banned because they
aimed to reveal the abuses of the Church and
the state in the Philippines during the
Spanish time.
 The literature period fell under propaganda
and were written by the leaders of the
movement against Spain,
WORK of
HEART
WORK OF
MIND

20. Philippines: Pearl of the orient seas
INTRODUCTION TO PHILIPPINE LITERARATURE

21.  introduced the English language
that the Filipinos began using as a
literary medium;
 the Philippine Literature began
written in English.

22.  new system of
education was
begun;
 English was made
the medium of
instruction in
schools;
 Thomasites

23. the former British
publisher of the
Heinemann Writing
in Asia Series and
the Head judge for
the Asiaweek Short
Story Competition