21st Literature

majestic type of lyric poetry

• Elegy

• Poetry

• Ode

• Lyric Poetry

simplest and shortest form of narrative poetry

• Ballad

• Flash Fiction

• Short Story

• Song

lengthy narrative story separated into series of chapters

• Fiction

• Novel

• Poetry

• Speculative Fiction

Known to be the land of beautiful songs and chants.

the term used for a legend narrating stories of folk heroes in the region.

creative use of words by the poets to imitate sounds

• sense

• tone

• mood

• sound

order alternation of strong and weak elements in the flow of sounds and silence.

• meter

• rhythm

• rhyme scheme

• diction

encompasses the genres that depart from reality, such as imaginative realms

• Fiction

• Poetry

• Speculative Fiction

• structure

formal arrangement of rhymes in a stanza

• shape

• verse

• maxims

• rhyme scheme

Father of Cebuano Literature

• Vicente Sotto

• Alejandro Roces

• Pedro Bucaneg

• Lope K. Santos