Identifying the
Genre of a
Material Viewed
Objectives:
• Define and identify different genres such
as songs, riddles, maxims, and epics.
• Analyze the characteristics that
distinguish each genre.
• Apply their understanding of genres to
correctly identify given materials.
What is GENRE?
•A genre refers to a kind of
writing, and in academic writing
usually refers to the
arrangement of a text to
accomplish the goals of that
Genres:
•Songs, riddle,
maxim, epics and
folktales
Songs/folk lyric
•Often consist of repetitions
were those that expressed
their emotions of love,
hope, aspirations, and
human relationships.
Examples:
Lullabies, harana,
children’s songs and
ritual songs
Riddles/bugtong
•a question or statement
intentionally phrased so as to
require ingenuity in ascertaining
its answer or meaning, typically
presented as a game.
•ingenuity
the quality of being clever,
original, and inventive.
•Ascertaining
finding out the true or correct
information about something
•Examples:
• Riddle: What has to be
broken before you can
use it?
Answer: an egg
•2. Riddle: I’m tall when
I’m young, and I’m short
when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A candle
3. Riddle: What month of
the year has 28 days?
Answer: All of them
4. Riddle: What is full of
holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge
5. Riddle: What question
can you never answer yes
to?
Answer: Are you asleep yet?
Maxims/kasabihan o kawikaan
•Offers lessons in life
•Usually clever, maxims
are like great sayings
everybody knows
Examples:
"The pen is mightier
than the sword.”
•"Early to bed, early to
rise, makes a man
healthy, wealthy, and
wise.“
•"Actions speak
louder than words."
Epics & folktales
•Folk narratives that
explain how and why
things exist, or how
things are created.
epics
•Are in the form of a
long poem which tells
about adventures of a
hero in certain place
.
•Epics are grand, long
compositions about the
heroic deeds of men and
women. They include
stories about gods as well
Example:
“BIAG NI LAM-ANG”
Lam-Ang's first adventure was his
quest for his father who had gone
to fight the Igorots and never
came back.
MODERN EPICS
EXAMPLES:
Harry Potter, Star Wars,
The Lord of the Rings
FOLKTALES
•Are traditional stories or
legends about a specific
culture usually containing
lessons of moral.
•are fictional stories that
has been orally passed
down over hundreds,
sometimes thousands,
of years
Examples:
“Goldilocks and the Three
Bears” – a British story about a
girl who breaks into the house
of the three bears, tries
everything out, and gets scared
“The Little Red Riding
Hood”
moral lesson in this story is
to keep away from
strangers and be smart
when going out alone
Thank you for
listening!