Essence and Division of Literature Part I

What kind of Folktale is The Ant and the Grasshopper?

“They Say Filipina is Another Name for a Maid” by Luisa Igloria inspired the students to give high respect and honor to our OFWs for their sacrifices and life threatening situations in abroad. The students’ action attributed to what 4R of literature?

“Bakunawa and the Seven Moons by Monsignor Fernando Buyser Y Aquino” depicts the pre-colonial Cebuanos in ancient time beliefs that there are seven moons created by their supreme God to light up the sky. Then a kind of monster, amazed by their beauty, would rise from the ocean and swallow the whole moon, angering Bathala and causing them to be mortal enemies. The feature of the story illustrated the 4 R's of literature.

A father of a cross-dresser gay accepted his son after reading “The Doll” by Emigdio Alvarez Enriquez. This story exposes the shallowness of the machismo culture instilled on the locals by their colonial masters. What R from 4Rs of literature has been reflected?

What does prose have that poetry usually doesn't?

It's a very long prose narrative depicting complex characterization and plot which is usually divided into chapters.

It  is a short prose fiction narrative depicting a simple characterization and plot conveying a moral which can be read in one sitting.

It is a prose nonfiction detailing the life of a person written by the same person

It's a prose non-fiction narrative that depicts a single incident in a person’s life

Literary works are consumed for the sake of one's enjoyment