1. Lullabies- these is locally known as the Hele. These are sung to put to sleep babies.

The content
varies, but usually, parents sing these with ideas on how hard life is and how they hope that
their child will not experience the hardships of life.
2. Drinking Songs- these are locally known as Tagay and are sung during drinking sessions.
3. Love Songs- to many Filipinos, these are known as the Harana. It can also be called Courtship
Songs and are used by young men to capture the heart of the girl that they love.
4. Religious Songs- are songs or chants that are usually given during exorcisms and thanksgiving
during good harvest
5. Songs of Death- are lamentations that contain the roll of good deeds that the dead has usually
done to immortalize his or her good image.
6. Folk Tales (Mga Kwentong Bayan)- These are stories of native Filipinos.
• These deal with the power of nature personified, their submission to a deity usually
Bathala- and how this deity is responsible for the blessings and calamities.
• These also tackle about irresponsibility, lust, stupidity, deception, and fallibility that eventually
leads to the instilling of good morals.
7. Usual Themes - Ceremonies needed to appease the deities.
• Pre and Post apocalypse • Life and Death • Gods and Goddesses
• Heroes and Heroines • Supernatural beings• Animals
8. Myths- these tackle the natural to strange occurences of the earth and how things were created
with an aim to give an explanation to things.
9. Legends- through legends, the natives uderstood mysteries around them. These stories usually
come with a moral lesson that give credit to supernatural powers, supernatural occurences, and
other out-ofthis-world native imagination.
10. Fables- are short or brief stories that cater the children of the native Filipinos and are usually
bounded by good manners and right conduct. These stories use animals as characters that
represent a particular value or characteristic.
11. Epics- are very lengthy narratives that are based on oral traditions. These contain encounters of
fighters, stereotypical princes or heroes that save a damsel in distress.
12. Senakulo- it is the re-enctment of the Pasyon.
13. Komedya- it depicts the European society through love and fame, but can also be a narrative
about a journey, just like Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. It is also considered religous, because
it usually depicts the battle between the Christians and the Saracens or the Moros.
14. Awit- these are tales of chivalry where a knight saves a princess. Florante at Laura is a good
example.
15. Korido- is a metrical tale or a tale that follows the struture of a poem.
16. Prose Narratives- are easy to understand instructional materials that in a literary light that
teaches Filipinos on proper decorum.
17. Propaganda Literature - These were in the forms of satires, editorials, and news articles that
aimed to attack the Spanish Rule.
18. NOLI ME TANGERE- his was the novel that gave spirit to the propaganda movement and paved
the way to the revolution against Spain.
19. Revolutionary Literature - are exposes that sparked revolution and resistance
in the hearts of Filipinos.
20. La Independencia (Independence) – an independent newspaper founded and edited by General
Antonio Luna.
21. La Republica Filipina (The Philippine Republic) – a private newspaper edited by
Pedro Paterno.
22. La Libertad (Liberty) – another private newspaper edited by Clemente Zulueta.
23. Drama- was usually used in the American period to degrade the Spanish rule and to immortalize
the heroism of the men who fought under the Katipunan.
24. Remake Novels- Utook up Dr. Jose Rizal's portrayal of social conditions by colonial repression.