LEGEND By: Group 3

TABLE OF CONTENTS

What is Legend
Difference between Legend and
Myths
Characteristics of Legend
Writers of Legend Stories (Local and
Foreign)
Legend Stories
 WHAT IS LEGEND?

 Originated from Latin legendus, legend means

“something which ought to be read.” According to J.
A. Cuddon, a legend is “a story or narrative that lies
somewhere between myth and historical fact and
which, as a rule, is about a particular figure or
person.”
 Legend, traditional story or group of stories told
about a particular person or place. Formerly the
term legend meant a tale about a saint . Legends
resemble folktales in content; they may include
supernatural beings, elements of mythology, or
explanations of natural phenomena, but they are
associated with a particular locality or person and
are told as a matter of history.
 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LEGEND AND
MY TH
A Legend is presumed to have
some basis in historical fact
and tends to mention real
people or events. Historical
fact morphs into a legend
when the truth has been
exaggerated to the point that
real people or events have
taken on a romanticized,
"larger than life" quality.
A Myth is a type of
symbolic storytelling that
was never based on fact.
Throughout time, myths
have sought to explain
dif ficult concepts (e.g.,
the origin of the universe)
with the help of common
story devices, such as
personification and
allegories.
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 CHARACTERISTICS OF LEGEND

CHARACTERISTICS OF LEGENDS

 - A NARRATIVE of human actions that are believed by the

storyteller and the reader/listener to have taken place in
HUMAN history.

 - Written in such a way as be at least potentially real/true;

includes no happenings outside of the realm of possibility.

 - Legends have a specific SETTING: a time, and a place.

They often include beliefs and ideas of a culture.

 - Legends have flexible guidelines, and therefore, can begin

with miracles that are believed to have really happened.
 -Legends transform over time. Facts will change or be
stretched, HYPERBOLE will enter the PLOTLINE, and colorful
details will remain and/or get more colorful.

 - Legends evolve over the years and are kept fresh, lively and
exciting.

 - Legends can be prose or poetry. They combine a real event

or real person’s unusual life story with the exaggeration and
heroic actions that we associate with stores of heroes and
great national events.

 - Legends read like Folk Tales but have a least a bit of

historical truth.

 - Legends are dif ferent than myths because they portray a

historical hero rather than one who is a god or goddess.
LOCAL LEGEND WRITERS

Augie Rivera
The idea to write an original story
about the bitter gourd came when
Augie realized that the vegetable
wasn't in the Filipino folk song Bahay
Kubo. Since Alamat ng Ampalaya was
published, Augie has written more
than 15 stories for children and has
repeated won recognition from the
Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for
Literature. He is one of the founding
members of KUTING (Kuwentista ng
mga Tsikiting), a group of Filipino
writers of children's stories.
LET’S WATCH
LET’S WATCH
 What is the latin word of legend?
 What does it mean?
 According to blank
 it is a traditional story or group of stories told about a
particular person or place.
 . Formerly the term legend meant a tale about a
 AUGIE RIVERA

Legend stories
Sa Ilalim ng Dagat
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Si Pitong , Noong Panahon ng mga
Hapon
Si Diwayen, Noong Bago Dumating ang
mga Espanyol
Isang Harding Papel
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AUGIE RIVERA.
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1 . WHO WROTE THE “LEGEND OF AMPALAYA”

A .AUGEI REVILLA
B.AGIE REVIRA
C.AUGIE RIVRA
D.AUGIE RIVERA
2.WHAT IS THE LATIN WORD OG LEGEND
A .LEGENDARY
B.MY THIC
C.LEGENDUS
D.ALAMAT
3.IT is a type of symbolic storytelling that was never based on
fact.
A .LEGEND
B.FOLKTALE
C.MY TH
D.LEGENDARY
4.IT is presumed to have some basis in historical fact and tends
to mention real people or events.
A .LEGEND
B.FOLKTALE
C.MY TH
D.LEGENDUS
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