PHILIPPINE LITERATURE

    Paz Benitez Born in 1894 in   Lucena , Tayabas (now   Quezon ). Marquez – Benítez authored the first Filipino modern English language short story,   Dead Stars , published in the Philippine Herald in 1925. Born into the prominent Marquez family of Quezon province, she was among the first generation of Filipino people trained in the American education system which used English as the medium of instruction. She graduated high school in Tayabas High School now, Quezon National High School. She was a member of the first freshman class of the University of the Philippines, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1912. Two years after graduation, she married UP College of Education Dean Francisco Benítez with whom she had four children. Márquez-Benítez later became a teacher at the University of the Philippines, who taught short-story writing and had become an influential figure to many Filipino writers in the English language, such as Loret...

      I.         I.   PRE-COLONIAL PERIOD (--BC to 1564) A . Characteristics   1. Based on oral traditions 2. Crude on ideology and phraseology          B . Literary Forms   1. Oral Literature   ·          Riddles (bugtong)–battle of wits among participants, Tigmo–Cebu, Paktakon-Ilonggo, Patotdon – Bicol ·          Proverbs (salawikain) – wise sayings that contain a metaphor used to teach as a food for thought etc. ·          Tanaga - a mono-riming hepta-syllabic quatrain expressing insights and lessons on life is "more emotionally charged than the terse proverb and thus has affinities with the folk lyric." 2 . Folk Songs ·          It is a form of folk lyric which expresses the hopes and aspirations, the people’s lifestyles...