Narrative

 Epic – heroic adventure.supernatural

Gilgamesh – oldest Epic (Mesopotamia)
Beowulf – oldest surviving, England
Iliad and Odyssey – Greece (Homer)
BIag ni Lam Ang – Ilocos
Hudhud at ALim – Ifugao (Igorot)
Bidasarl – Mindanao
 Tale l- imaginative Narrative (Fairy tales)
 Ballad – intented to be sang

LYRIC
 AWIT – Sung, 12 syllables, Realistic, Florante at Laura
 KORIDO – Recited, 8 syllables, Fantasy, Ibong Adarna
 Floksong l- awiting bayan
 Sonnet – 14 line poem about love for someone
 Elegy – poem for the dead
 Ode – noble feelings praise to someone
 Psalms – workhip
 Haiku – 3 lines, 17 syllables, 575, Nature
 Tanka – 5 lines 31 syllables, 57577, nature and love

DRAMATIC
 Tragedy – struggling hero (sad)
 Comedy – amusement

AUTHROS AND WORKS

Prominent Figures in Phil. Lit.
Manuel Estabilia Arguilla
- Illokano writer in English, Patriot, and martyr.
- He is known for his widely anthologized short story
- “How my brother Leon Brought Home a Wife:
- Won first prize in the Commonwealth Literary Contest in 1940
- His stories “Midsummer” and “Heal” were published in Tondo, Manila by the Prairie Schooner.
Nicomedes Marquez Joaquin
- Best known for his short stories and novels in English that depict Filipino – Spanish cultural belief and traditions
- He also wrote using pen name Quijano de Manila
- National artist of the Philippines for literature.
Bienvedino N. Santos
- Filipino – American fiction poetry and nonfiction writer
Paz Marquez – Benitez
- Dead Stars
- Published in the Philippine Herald in 1925.
- She was among the first generation of Filipino people trained in the American education system which used
English as the medium of instruction
Zoilo Galang
- Kaunaunahang writer na gumamit ng English
- Achiled of sorrow, 1921

Jose Garcia Villa

- He was a Filipino poet, literary critic short story writer and painter.
- National artist of the Philippines title for literature in 1973
- Comma poet
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Severino Reyes
- Walang sugat

Jose Corazon de Jesus

- Huseng Batute
- Buhay Maynila
Pedro Bukaneg
- Father of Ilocano Literature
- Biag ni Lam-ang
Juan Cristostomo Caballa Soto
- Father of Kapampangan Literature
- The marriage of the dead, based on Romeo and Juliet
- Ang sigalot

Alejandro G. Abadilla
- Father of Philippine Modern Poetry
Genoveva Matute
- First palanca awardee
Amado V. Hernandez
- Labor leader, makata ng mga manggagawa
Aurelio Tolentino
- Kahapon, Ngayon at bukas
Severino Reyes
- Lola basyang, father of tagalog drama. Walang sugat
Lope K. Santos
- Father of Philippine Grammar. Ama ng Balarilang Filipino
Pedro Bukaneg
- Fatherof Ilocano Literature, Biag ni Laml-ang
Francisco Baltazar “Balagtas”
- Prince of Tagalog Poet

PROMIMENT FIGUR3S AND WORLD LITERATURES

Homer
- The great blind Poet of Greece
- The Iliad and the Odyssey
- Melic Poetry (kinakanta at sinasayaw)
William Shakespeare
- English poet, greatest writer, Englad’s national poet, bard of avon
Kalidasa
- Counterpart of Shakespeare
Rabindranath Tagore
- Gitanjali
- First non-european to win the nobel prize in literature in 1913
- Bard of Bengal
John Milton
- Paradise Lost
Geoffrey Chaucer
- Father of English literature
- Canterbury Tales
- Morning star
Charles Joh Huffam Dickens
- Social critic
Ernest Hemingway
- A farewell to arms and the old man and the sea
- Nobel prize in literature in 1954
Henri Rene albert guy de Maupassant
- Master of the short story
- The necklace
- French writer
Publius Vergilius Maro
- Roman poet
Dante Alighieri
- The divine comedy – “inferno, purgatorio, and paradise”
Christopher Marlow
- Father of drama
Victor hugo
- Les miserable, the hunchback of notre dame
Rabindranath Tagore
- Gitanjali
Antoine De Saint Exupery
- The little Prince
Robert Frost
- The road not taken
Rudyard Kipling
- The jungle book
George Orwell
- Animal Farm
Edgar Allan Poe
- Father of American short story, Father of Modern Detective story; horror
Chinua Achebe
- The most influential Nigerian Writer, things fall apart

Flashboacks
- These are past events, in order to provide background or context to the current event.

REVIEW OF LITERARY WORKS

CLASSICAL LITERATURE
The literature of Ancie2nt Greece and the Gol2den and Silver Ages of Rome
These will be greek literature and roman literature.

The Epic of Gilgamesh

- World’s oldest epic, predating Homer by many centuries
The Homeric Poems The Iliad and Odyssey
- Liak talks about love and war

The Mahabharata
- Longes epic in the word (it has 220,000 lines)
- Epic of india
- Narrated by vyasa
The Aeneid – Virgil
- Epic of the romans
- Aeneas is the main character of the this epic
- It talks about love, war and adventures
The Metamorphoses – Ovid
 - Does not contain as much bloodshed and travel as Homer’s and Virgil’s but his 15 part poem contains the
elevated language of the epic
- This deals with gods or goddesses change into human
El Cid Campeador (The champin)
- Epic of spain
- He was accused of treachery but prove his loyalty by conquered Valencia from the moors
Beowulf
- Britain’s national epick but it is in face celebrated as a national text in most Nordic countires
- Its main character is Beowulf whoe killed Grendel
The Nibelugnenlied
- Epic of Germany
- Its main character was Siegfried, an SAchilles-like figure who fights dragons
The song of Roland
- Epic of France
- Roland and King Charlemagne
Divine Comdey – Dante Aligheiri
- Epic of Italy
The Canterbury Tales

Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher …