What is Traditional Literature?

1. What is Traditional Literature?

2. Traditional Literature - is a genre that deals specifically with stories that were passed down through oral storytelling from generation to generation. It consists of songs, stories poems and riddle from anonymous sources. There are many forms of traditional literature (myths, fable, epics, ballads, legends, folk rhymes, folktales).

3. Traditional Literature Religious/Cultural Literature Myths Creation stories Legends Tall tales Epics Folklore Folktales Nursery rhymes Riddles Jokes Superstitions Proverbs Fables Home remedies Folktales Fairy tales Noodle head stories Animal stories Trickster tales Cumulative tales Pourquoi tales

4. Folktale Folktales feature common people, such as peasants, and commonplace events. Characters are usually flat, representing human frailty. Folktales have tight plot structures, filled with conflict. There is often a cycle of three in folktales. Elements of magic or magical characters may be incorporated, but logic rules so the supernatural must be plausible and within context.

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6. Philippine Folk Tales

7. Fairy tale This is the best known type of folktale, and one of the most popular. Fairy tales, sometimes called "magic stories," are filled with dreamlike possibility. Fairy tales feature transformations, magical interventions, enchanted forces, and, of course, magic. Fairy tales always have a "happily ever after" ending, where good is rewarded and evil is punished. Characteristics: • Tale of some length, with a succession of episodes and motifs • Setting does not have a definite location or time • Includes magic and/or magical characters and marvelous adventures

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10. Philippine Fairy Tale -How the sun, the moon and the stars came into being - Why does the sun shines brighter then the moon? - Something about the volcano Kanlaon - How sea horses came into being? - Why does the fish Baka-bakahan has feeler and scales? - Why dogs bark? - Something about the good smelling flower Ylang-Ylang - How people invent the rice - Baldog and the giant - The monkey prince - Punished pride - The broken promise

11. The Literary BalladThe literary ballad is a narrative poem created by a poet in imitation of the old anonymous folk ballad. Usually the literary ballad is more elaborate and complex; the poet may retain only some of the devices and conventions of the older verse narrative. Literary ballads were quite popular in England during the 19th cent.

12. John Keats' • "La Belle Dame sans Merci" (1888) • Dudley Randall's • "Ballad of Birmingham" • (1966).

13. Dressed All In Pinkby Dudley RandallIt was a wet and cloudy daywhen the prince took his last ride.The prince rode with the gonernor,and his princess rode beside."And would you like to ride insidefor shelter from the rain?""No I'll ride outside, where I can waveand speak to my friends again."They ride among the cheering crowds,the young prince and his mate.The governor says, "See how they smileand cheer you where they wait." The prince rides with the governor,his princess rides beside,dressed all in pink as delicateas roses of a bride.Pink as a rose the princess rides,but bullets from a gunturn that pink to as deep a redas red, red blood can run,for she bends to where the prince lies stilland cradles his shattered head,and there that pink so delicateis stained a deep, deep red.The prince rides with the governor,the princess rides beside,and her dress of pink so delicatea deep, deep red is dyed.

14. -written about the assassination of JFK-Jackie Kennedy is the princess-iambic tetrameter-rhyming scheme: abcb-the dress symbolizes the country itself falling from grace-colour imagery of pink as roses and red as blood-princess is described in colour-"dyed" at the end has a double meaning-dress is said to be as pink as roses but roses are also a deep shade of red, but the dress is not referred to a rose when it is covered in blood-Pink is the colour of innocence and it turning red is significant in displaying the loss of innocence

15. Tall tales -are stories written from someone’s imagination.  The story can be funny or silly.  They are filled with exaggerations, similes, metaphors, and lots of descriptive language.  It is always told as if it were true, even though the listeners know that the story could never really happen.       Some of the characters were real heroes and heroines whose stories got exaggerated a lot, others were characters such as cowboys, railroad workers, loggers, sea captains, and firefighters.  Tall tales told information that really happened at the time and combined it with a wild tale full of fantasy.

17. " When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.“ - John Berger