DIFFERENT

LITERARY
FORMS IN THE
PHILIPPINES
ON
DIFFERENT
Literary forms in literature are
divided into the following era;
(1)Pre-colonial times,
(2)Spanish colonial tradition,
(3)American colonial period, and
(4)Contemporary Period.
 ERA LITERARY DIFFERENT
FORM FORMS AND/OR
EXAMPLES
Folk Speeches  tigmo in Cebuano,
Pre-  bugtong in Tagalog,
Colonial  burbutia in Ilocano
Period  paktakon in Ilongo and
 patototdon in Bicol
 ERA LITERARY FORM DIFFERENT FORMS AND/OR
EXAMPLES
Pre-Colonial Songs or Awit  Uyayi or hele is a lullaby of putting a child to
Period sleep
 Soliranin is a song for travelers
 Kumintang is a war song
 Maluway is for collective behavior
 Kundiman for melancholic love song
 Panambitan is a courtship song
 Pamanhikan is a song of a would-be
bridegroom
 Subli is a dance ritual song of courtship &
marriage
 Dallot & duayya are Ilocano love songs
 Dung-aw is a wake or dirge song Bagbato is a
song ritual for harvest from Mountain
province
 Laji, Kanta or kalusan are popular folk songs
in Batanes
 ERA LITERARY FORM DIFFERENT FORMS
AND/OR EXAMPLES
Tagalog Proverbs or Aphorisms Salawikain or Sawikain
Sarsarita in Iloko
Tanaga basahanon or extended didactic sayings
from Bukidnon daraida
daragilon from Panay
Pre-Colonial Folk songs children's songs or Ida-ida
Period (Maguindanao), tulang pambata
(Tagalog) or cansiones para abbing
(Ibanag)
drinking songs or tagay (Cebuano and
Waray); dirges and lamentations extolling
the deeds of the dead like the kanogon
(Cebuano) or the Annako(Bontoc)
 ERA LITERARY DIFFERENT
FORM FORMS AND/OR
EXAMPLES
Lullabys Ili-ili (Ilongo); love songs like
the panawagon and balitao
(Ilongo);
harana or serenade (Cebuano);
Pre- bayok (Maranao);
Colonial ambahan of the Mangyans; he
Period seven-syllable per line poem
kalusan (Ivatan),
soliranin (Tagalog rowing song)
mambayu, a Kalinga rice-
pounding song
duplo , the verbal jousts/games
 ERA LITERARY DIFFERENT
FORM FORMS AND/OR
EXAMPLES
Theater komedya or later called
moro-moro
Spanish Sinakulo
Colonial sarswela
Period Religious Lyrics Dalit
Novenas
Catechism
 ERA LITERARY FORM DIFFERENT FORMS AND/OR
EXAMPLES
Religious Poetry pasyon-dialogo (dialogue),
● Ang Mahal na Passion ni Jesu Christong
Panginoon natin na tola" (Holy Passion of
Our Lord Jesus Christ in Verse) by Gaspar
Aquino de Belen
Manual de Urbanidad (conduct book);
Spanish Colonial ejemplo (exemplum)
Period tratado (tratado).
● "Pagsusulatan ng Dalawang Binibini na
si Urbana at si Feliza" (Correspondence
between the Two Maidens Urbana and
Feliza)
● Ang Bagong Robinson" (The New
Robinson)
 ERA LITERARY DIFFERENT
FORM FORMS AND/OR
EXAMPLES
Secular poetry or the korido ● “ Ibong Adarna”
metrical romance awit ● “Florante at Laura”
in Tagalog
Spanish
Secular lyrics ● Ang Manok Kong Bulik
Colonial
("My White Rooster” ) of
Period
Jose Corazon de Jesus
Novels ● “Noli Me Tangere,”
● “El Filibusterismo”
 ERA LITERARY FORM DIFFERENT FORMS
AND/OR EXAMPLES
Free verse or Modernist ● “ Ako ang Daigdig” of Alejandro G.
Poetry Abadilla
Short story ● “ Dead Stars” by Paz Marquez
Benitez
American Zarzwela ● ““ Tanikalang Ginto,”of Juan Abad
Colonial ● “Kahapon, Ngayon at Bukas” & of
Period Aurelio Tolentino
● “Malaya” of Thomas Remigio
● “Hinde Ako Patay,” by Juan Abad,
Aurelio Tolentino, Juan Matapang
Cruz,& Juan Crisostomo Sotto
 ERA LITERARY FORM DIFFERENT FORMS
AND/OR EXAMPLES
Novels in Tagalog ● Published in Liwayway, Bannawag,
and Bisaya.
● Iloko, Hiligaynon, & Sugbuano
Novels ● Bulalakaw ng Pag-asa,” by Ishmael
Amado
American
● “Nena at Neneng,”by Valeriano
Colonial
Hernadez “Pinaglahuan,” by Faustino
Period
Aguilar &
● “ Banaag at Sikat” by Lope K.
Santos
Balagtasan ⮚ Bukanegan in Ilocos,
⮚ Crissottan in Pampanga,
 ERA LITERARY FORM DIFFERENT FORMS
AND/OR EXAMPLES
Essay in English ● “I am a Filipino” by Carlos P,
Romulo
Newspapers ● “El Nuevo Dia ( The New Daily)
established by Sergio Osmena
● “ El Grito Del Pueblo” ( The Call of
American Nation) established by Pascual Poblete
Colonial ● “El Renacimiento” ( The Rebirth)
Period established by Rafael Palma
Tagalog fiction ⮚ dali or pasingaw,
One-act play ● “ Wanted Chaperone,” &
● “ Forsaken House” by Wilfredo
Maria Guerrero
 ERA LITERARY FORM DIFFERENT FORMS AND/OR
EXAMPLES
Mobile Text Tula  Textanaga
 Dalitext
 Dionatext
Graphic novels ● “Trese 5: Midnight Tribunal,” by
Ferdinand Benedict T. Tan & Jonathan A.
Baldisimoa ;
Contemporary
● “Zsazsa Zaturnah sa Kalakhang
Period
Maynila” by Carlo Vergara
Creative Nonfiction ● “The Cardinal’s Sins, the General’s
Cross, the Martyr’s Testimony, and Other
Affirmations” by Gregorio C. Brillantes
● “Manananggal Terrorizes Manila And
Other Stories” by Jessica Zafra
 ERA LITERARY FORM DIFFERENT FORMS AND/OR
EXAMPLES
Chick lit ● “Spotlight New Adult” by Mina V.
Esguerra
● “Tall Story” by Candy Gourlay
● “All’s Fair in Blog and War” by Chrissie
Per
Speculative Fiction ● “Smaller and Smaller Circles” by FH
Contemporary
Batacan
Period
● “Sink” by Isabel Yap
● “The Secret Origin of Spin-Man” by
Andrew Drilon
Flash fiction ● “100 Kislap,” by Abdon M. Balde Jr.
● “Karapote: Antolohia Dagiti 13 a
Nasuerte A Sarita” by Ariel S. Tabag
 ERA LITERARY FORM DIFFERENT FORMS
AND/OR EXAMPLES
Contemporary Hyper Poetry See AVP…
Period
 ERA LITERARY FORM DIFFERENT FORMS
AND/OR EXAMPLES
Contemporary Hyper Fiction See AVP…
Period
 ERA LITERARY FORM DIFFERENT FORMS
AND/OR EXAMPLES
Contemporary Ebooks
Period
 ERA LITERARY FORM DIFFERENT FORMS
AND/OR EXAMPLES
Contemporary Blogs
Period