Philippine

Literature
English Learners’
Material

This module was collaboratively developed by the group

students of Bachelor of Secondary Education Major in English at
Tarlac State University, through the use of some references that
could help the students to develop their understanding the
topics. This module also contains tasks and exercises that could
develop students’ thinking skills and analytic comprehension

Department of Education

Republic of the Philippines

 Table of Contents

Unit 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF PHILIPPINE LITERATURE

Lesson 1: Types of Prose

Lesson 2: Elements of Short Story

Lesson 3: Types of Poetry

Unit 2: Region 1 – ILOCOS

Lesson 1: About Ilocos Region

Lesson 2: The Other Woman by Virgilio R. Samonte

 Introduction

This module is intended and especially developed for English Learners to

provide the roads to cooperative, collaborative, and independent learning of the
concepts and competencies that may develop learner’s real-life based skills. The
developers ensure that this module would be a great help for the learners in
developing their skills for academic success and the world of work.

This Learners’ material provides variety of tasks and activities and texts,
particularly Philippine Literary pieces that are both relevant and meaningful to the
learners’ lives. It offers opportunities for the learners to be engaged in varied,
interesting, motivating, challenging, meaningful, and worthwhile task to further
improve their learning competencies.

Pre – Requisite

Time Allotment

This module requires specific allotted time; each lesson is intended to be

taught for 1 hour,
 Unit 1: Introduction to the study of Philippine Literature

Lesson 1: Types of Prose

Learning Objectives

In this lesson, learners are expected to:

1. Identify the different types of Prose

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Pre – test

1.

Literature is a word derived from Latin word litera which means letter. It is
defined as a piece of printed work related to the ideas and feelings of the people
that may be true or just a product of writer’s imagination. Literature is divided
into two large groups: prose and poetry.

Prose is defined a spoken or written language without metrical regularity.

Poetry, on the other hand, is the imaginative expression of emotion, thought, or
narrative, frequently in metrical form and often using figurative language. Poetry
has traditionally been distinguished from prose by rhyme or the rhythmical
arrangement of words

Types of prose
1. Novel – It is an extended fictional prose narrative, often including the
psychological development of the central characters and of their
relationship with broader world. The modern novel took its name and
inspiration from the Italian novella, the short tale of varied character which
became popular in the late 13th century. Novel is classified according to
genres and subgenres such as the historical novel, detective fiction,
fantasy and science fiction.
2. Short story – It is an artistic form of prose fiction which in centered on a
single main single incident whose aim is to produce a single dominant
impression. Its qualities are economy, compression, brevity and emphasis.
3. Play – It is a piece of creative work presented on stage. It is usually divided
into acts.
4. Legends – It is a traditional or undocumented story about famous people,
commonly religious in character and frequently posing problems of
authenticity.
5. Fables – It is a story in either verse or prose, in which animals or inanimate
objects are given the mentality and speech of human beings to point out a
moral lesson.
6. Anecdote – It is a product of writer’s imagination whose aim is to bring out
lessons to the readers. It can be stories about animals or children.
7. Essays – It is a short piece of nonfiction dealing with a particular subject
from a personal point of view.
8. Biography – It is an account of a person’s life. It may consist of factual
details of a person’s life told in a chronological order, but generally became
a matter of interpretation as well as historical accuracy.
9. News – It is a report of daily events in society, government, or in science
and industry.
10. Oration – It is a piece of work relative to speech whose aim is to arouse the
listener’s interest and emotion.
 Lesson 2: Elements of Short Story

Learning Objectives

In this lesson, learners are expected to:

1. differentiate the elements of short story

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Pre – test

Elements of Short Story

1. Setting – It is an element that reveals where the story happened.

2. Characters - They are the performers of a story. It may refer to the hero or
to the heroin of the story. It includes people playing an important role in a
given story aside from the principal character.
3. Plot – It refers to the story line in a novel, play, film, or other work of fiction.
It is traditionally a scheme of connected events.
4. Theme – It refers to the central idea of any piece of literary work.
5. Point of view – It is a device used by the writer in presenting his idea.
6. Conflict – It refers to the collision between one character and another,
between a character and some elements in the world about him.
 Lesson 3: Types of Poetry

Learning Objectives

In this lesson, learners are expected to:

1. Differentiate the types of poetry

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Pre – test

Types of Poetry

1. Narrative Poetry – It describes important details in life following the order

of events either real or imaginary. They are classified as Epic, Metrical
tales, Metrical Romance and Ballad.
a. Epic – It is a narrative poem or cycle of poem dealing with some
great deeds like the founding of a nation or the forging of national
unity. They often use religious or cosmological themes.
b. Metrical Tales – It is a type of narrative written in verse. It is
classified as either ballad or metrical romance.
c. Metrical Romance – It is also a type of metrical tale composed of a
long rambling love story in verse. It is centered around the adventure
of knights and lords and their royal ladies during the age of chivalry.
It is heavily flavoured with romance, fantastic events, supernatural
occurencies and magic.
d. Ballad – It is a narrative type of poem that is metrically simple,
sometimes unstrophic and unrhymed or dependent in assonance. It
 is concerned with some strongly emotional event. It is halfway
between the lyric and the epic.
2. Lyric Poetry – Means any short poem which is songlike. This is the most
common type of poetry. Example are:
a. Haiku – A short Japanese poem consisting of 17 syllables arranged
in three lines
b. Ode – A serious lyric poetry which commemorates important public
events. It consists of stanzas with the same pattern of rhythm and
rhyme.
c. Elegy – A common lyric that deals with life and death. It mourns the
death of a loved one.
d. Sonnet- a love poem which mostly consists of 14 times and has a
certain pattern or rhyme and rhythm.
3. Dramatic poetry – tells stories like narrative poetry, but in dialogues of play
rhyme, repeating rhythms, and other poetic elements. One of the most
famous dramatic poet is the English playwright, William Shakespeare.
 Unit 2: Region 1 – ILOCOS

Lesson 1: About Ilocos Region