21st Century

Is written material, such as a book or poem that shares a narrative through entertainment.  One example of this is a fictional novel.

• literary text

• Poem

• Drama

• Tanaga

a particular literary work within the context of the author’s life. To understand the meaning of the text, you must consider the circumstances under which the literary work was written, including the literary background of the author or instances that may have affected their writings.

• Literary Text

• Poem

•   Biographical context

• Drama

According to----------&------there are several benefits of reading literature in consideration of the author’s background and biographical context.

• Dave&Den

• Moi&Mosh

• Jed&Jane

• Gioia and Kennedy

She graduated from Siliman University with a Creative Writing degree and is now a Professor Emeritus at the University of the Philippines. She is also an advocate of her mother tongue so we would often find her poems written in English, Cebuano, and Waray

• Grace Poe

• Merlie M. Alunan

• Sheila Marie Vasquez

• Mary Grace LI

Is known as Tigmo in Cebuano, bugtong in Tagalog, paktakon in Ilonggo and patotodon in Bicol. This often includes metaphors and personifications to create statements and questions about the mundane

• Proverbs or aphorisms

• Tanaga

•  Riddle

• Poem

used to represent the behavior of a particular community. They are often short, rhyming verses that reflect a social group’s values and beliefs

•  Proverbs or aphorisms

• Riddle

• Tanaga

• Drama

It usually comes in a monotonous, rhyming expressions and insights on life. Compared to bugtong and proverbs, tanaga comprises of more emotionally charged remarks

• Drama

• Comic

• Poem

• Tanaga

  It is a form of folk lyric that is often about the hopes and aspirations of the people and their lifestyles and their loves.

• Folk Dance

• The FOLK SONG

• Epic

• Dance

Also known as epics and folk tales, folk narratives explain theories and beliefs on broad concepts like how the world was created or the origin of specific places and things.

• NARRATIVE SONG

• FOLK NARRATIVES

• Lamentations for the dead

• Drinking songs

The modern short story and critical essay as forms of writing were introduced in this period. Popular writing in the native languages also bloomed.

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• Free verse

•  Awit

• Korido