HCL-REVIEWER FOR MIDTERM

1. Riddles – These are mystifying statements or questions phrased and rhymed to require ingenuity in determining its answer.

• True
• false

2. Proverbs - These are called sawikain or salawikain in Tagalog or sarsarita in Ilocano. Philippine proverbs are wise sayings that prescribe codes of behavior, mirror societal norms, traditions, and beliefs and impart lessons in brief, rhyming verse.

• True
• false

3. Songs – These are forms of folk lyric speak volumes of the typical rural lives and reflect people’s aspirations and lifestyles.

• True
• false

4. Folk Songs (Awit ng Bayan) – These are songs with lines often described as repetitive, didactic, and sonorous.

• True
• false

5. Lullaby (Oyayi) – These are soothing songs often sung to put babies to sleep.

• True
• false

6. Serenade (Harana) – These are courtship songs used by young men to capture the heart of the girl they love.

• True
• false

7. Chants (Bulong) – These are used to give respect, excuse, or apology to unseen or other elemental spirits our ancestors believed in to deliver them from danger or harm.

• True
• false

8. Epics – These are long narrative accounts of heroic exploits. Examples of these are Darangen in Maranaw, Aliguyon at Hudhud in Ifugao, Ibalon in Bicol.

• True
• false

9. Myths – These are symbolic narratives, usually of unknown origin and at least partly traditional, that ostensibly relate actual events and are especially associated with religious belief.

• True
• false

10. Legends – These are stories that explain the origin of things and phenomena in the surrounding world.

• True
• false