Developing

the Topic
Sentence
A. Development by Giving Details
B. Development by Giving
Examples
C. Development by Cause and
Effect
D. Development by Comparison
or Contrast
Lao Tzu
Confucius
The religious and
didactic genres like
saints’ lives, prayers,
and books of conduct.
The first literary works
in the Visayas were a
miscelany of these
forms:
1. Lagda sa pagca
maligdon sa tauong
Bisaya (1734)
2. Cebuano work, Ang
Suga nga Magandan-ag
sa Nagapuyo sa
Cangitngitan sa sala
(1879)
= Pananglitan
• Toward the end of Spanish rule in
the 19th century, a new set of
economic and social conditions
prepared the ground not just for
the revolution at the end of the
century but also the rise of
vernacular writing in the Visayas.
• Relative prosperity in Iloilo,
Negros, and Cebu where large
haciendas grew export crops like
sugar helped create a middle
class who could send their
children to Manila or abroad to
study.
• Educational reforms were
introduced in 1865 with
secondary schools being built in
Cebu and Jaro.
• Filipino-led movements (the
secularization of the Filipino
clergy, the Propaganda
Movement, the Revolution in
1896)
• slowly changed the
atmosphere from monastic to
liberal, that although the early
20th century saw the
Philippines only changing
colonial masters rather than
gaining long-term
independence, the liberal
atmosphere that Filipino-led
movement helped create led to
burst of provincial journalism
and native language writing.
• It also helped that the
Spanish language was
already losing favor, and
the English language had
not yet taken root at this
time of the early
American colonial period.
• This golden age of
vernacular literature in the
first decades of the 20th
century would not have
been possible without the
rise of provincials
journalism, because it was
in the spate of native
language periodicals that a
new form of literature
gained wide popularity for
many years: the serialized
novel.
• Before the turn of the
century, the dominance
of pro-Spanish periodicals
was already being
eclipsed by native
language papers like:
• El Porvenir de Visayas
(1884-1989) of Iloilo
• El Boletin de CEBU (1886)
• The creation of new
native language
periodicals continued: in
Cebu,
• 1. Ang Suga (1901)
2. Ang Camatuoran (1902)
in Iloilo
3. Ang Kagubut (1900)
4. Kadapig sang Banwa
(1905)
• And later on, in the 1920s
and the 1930s,
• Bag-ong Kusog (1915-
1941)
• Nasud (1930-1941)
• Babaye(1930-1940), and
the weeklies Bisaya and
Hiligaynon.