FOLK

LITERATURE
MYTHOLGY AND FOLKLORE
Presented by: Lyzhen Carlos
 ESENTATION OUTLIN
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GENRE CLASSIFICATION

FORMS
CHARACTERISTICS
WHAT IS FOLK
LITERATURE?
 FOLK
LITERATURE

The definition of folklore is the set of

cultural artifacts—such as religious
practices, stories, dances, and other art
forms—preserved among a community of
people through oration. Folklore comprises
all of the artful forms and expressions that
define a group's particular culture and
includes tales, songs, jokes, dances, and
sayings.
 GENRES OF FOLK
LITERARURE
Verbal art: jokes,
Material culture: folk art,
proverbs, word games
vernacular architecture, textiles,
Belief and religion: folk
modified mass-produced
religion, ritual, and
objects
mythology
Music: traditional, folk, and
Food ways: traditional
world music
cooking and customs,
Narrative: legends, urban
relationships between
legends, fairy tales, folk tales,
food and culture
personal experience narratives
 CHARACTERISTICS
OF FOLK LITERATURE

Orality
All folk literature is derived from and
passed down through oral traditions
of storytelling, singing, or narration
before being preserved in writing.
Dissemination
Through Generations
Cultural artifacts must be
passed down through
multiple generations to be
considered folk literature.

EXPOSITION
 Sociality
Perhaps most importantly, folk
literature is a way to connect
Fluidity with other human beings.
Folk literature is fluid because Humans are social creatures
it relies exclusively on human that require interaction.
faculties to survive; it is
subject to constant additions,
subtractions, and alterations
every time it is shared.
EXPOSITION
CLASSIFICATION
There are two classification of folk
literature. These two are folk
speech and folk narrative. Folk
narrative are the prose type like
legend, folklore. Folk speech are
the verse type like folktale.
MAJOR FORMS OF FOLK
LITERATURE

 FOLK SONG
A TRADITIONAL OR COMPOSED SONG TYPICALLY
CHARACTERIZED BY STANZAIC FORM, REFRAIN,
AND SIMPLICITY OF MELODY.

“Planting is no joke” is a well-known Tagalog folk song in the

Philippines! As with most folk songs, there are many variations to the
lyrics of Magtanim Ay Di Biro.
 FOLK BALLAD
A SONG THAT IS TRADITIONALLY SUNG BY THE
COMMON PEOPLE OF A REGION AND FORMS PART
OF THEIR CULTURE

“Barbara Allen” and “John Henry.” Beginning in the Renaissance,

poets have adapted the conventions of the folk ballad for their
own original compositions.
 FOLK DRAMA
AN ETIC TERM USED BY SCHOLARS IN VARIOUS
DISCIPLINES TO ENCOMPASS DIFFERENT IDEAS AND
APPLIED TO A BROAD RANGE OF PERFORMANCE
TRADITIONS

“The Moors and the Christians,” and the modern pageants—all these
are based on written texts, however crude, and are beyond the scope
of this treatment
 FABLE
NARRATIVE FORM, USUALLY FEATURING ANIMALS
THAT BEHAVE AND SPEAK AS HUMAN BEINGS, TOLD IN
ORDER TO HIGHLIGHT HUMAN FOLLIES AND
WEAKNESSES

The Boy Who Cried Wolf. One of the most famous of Aesop's Fables,
The Boy Who Cried Wolf highlights the importance of always being
truthful.
 FOLKTALE

FOLKTALES ARE STORIES IN THE ORAL TRADITION, OR

TALES THAT PEOPLE TELL EACH OTHER OUT LOUD,
RATHER THAN STORIES IN WRITTEN FORM.

“The Dragon Slayer,” “The Danced-Out Shoes,” the “Swan-Maiden” tales,

“Cupid and Psyche,” “Snow White,” “Cinderella,” “Faithful John,” “Hansel and
Gretel,” and the like. Here also belong certain stories with religious or romantic
motivation and tales of robbers and thieves—“Peter at the Gate of Heaven,”
“The Clever Peasant Daughter,” “Rhampsinitus.”
 PROVERBS, RIDDLES
AND CHARMS
THREE OF THE SHORTER FORMS OF FOLK LITERATURE—
PROVERBS, RIDDLES, AND CHARMS—ARE NOT CONFINED
TO ORAL EXPRESSION BUT HAVE APPEARED IN WRITTEN
LITERATURE FOR A VERY LONG TIME.

The riddle goes as follows: “What goes on four legs in the morning, on
two legs at noon, and on three legs in the evening?” Answer = A man.
He crawls on four legs as a baby, two as an adult, and finally three as an
old man with a cane.