Survey of the Philippine Literature in English

1. The term is most commonly used to refer to words of the creative imagination including works of poetry, drama, fiction and non-fiction.

• Literature

• "Litera"

• Language

• Poetic Imagination

2. It is a body of work, either written, oral or visual, containing imaginative language that realistically portrays thought, emotions and experiences of the human condition.

• Language

• Literature

• Haiku

• Tanaga

3. These are short poems intended to be sung. The common theme is love, despair, grief, doubt, joy, hope and sorrow.

• Sonnets

• Folksongs

• Elegy

• Epic

4. This is a narrative which is written in verse and can be classified either as a ballad or a metrical romance.

• Farce

• Ode

• Metrical Tale

• Social Poems

5. This is usually used in musical plays with the opera. Today, this is related to tragedy just as the farce is to comedy. It arouses immediate and intense emotion and is usually sad but there is a happy ending for the principal character.

• Comedy

• Tragedy

• Farce

• Melodrama

6. it is the dramatic performance of the passion and death of Christ

• Lagaylay

• Cenaculo

• Lagaylay

• Tibag

7. Philippine Christmas dramatic ritual narrating the whole family’s search for a place to stay in Bethlehem for Jesus Christ‘s birth through songs.

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8. A short musical comedy popular during the 18th century. They were exaggerated comedy shown between acts plays and were mostly performed by characters from the lower class.

• Moro-moro

• Sainete

• Carillo

• Salubong

9. Dramatic performance of the passion and death of Christ

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10. This form is either purely comic or tragic and it pictures the life of today. It may aim to bring about changes in the social conditions.

• Social Poems

• Psalms

• Awit

• Corridos