21st Century Literature - Pre-colonial Period

These are traditional stories occurring in a timeless past. They involve supernatural elements and are beyond the frontiers of logic.

• Myths

• Legends

• Proverbs

• Sayings

A simple and concrete saying, popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience.

• Myths

• Legends

• Proverbs

• Sayings

It express norms or codes of behavior, community beliefs or they instill values by offering nuggets of wisdom in short, rhyming verse.

• Myths

• Legends

• Proverbs

• Sayings

Traditional narrative or collection of related narratives, popularly regarded as historically factual but actually a mixture of fact and fiction.

• Myths

• Legends

• Proverbs

• Sayings

These are war songs in English.

• Kundiman

• Kumintang

• Bulong

• Diona

These are wedding songs in English.

• Kundiman

• Kumintang

• Bulong

• Diona

These are love songs in English.

• Kundiman

• Kumintang

• Bulong

• Diona

These are chants in English.

• Kundiman

• Kumintang

• Bulong

• Diona

The Pre-colonial period of the Philippines started when Ferdinand Magellan rediscovered the archipelago.

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The Literature of the Pre-colonial period of the Philippines were mostly of Oral Tradition.

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