Folklore
Folklore
Folklore
LITERATURE
MYTHOLGY AND FOLKLORE
Presented by: Lyzhen Carlos
ESENTATION OUTLIN
PR E
GENRE CLASSIFICATION
FORMS
CHARACTERISTICS
WHAT IS FOLK
LITERATURE?
FOLK
LITERATURE
EXPOSITION
Sociality
Perhaps most importantly, folk
literature is a way to connect
Fluidity with other human beings.
Folk literature is fluid because Humans are social creatures
it relies exclusively on human that require interaction.
faculties to survive; it is
subject to constant additions,
subtractions, and alterations
every time it is shared.
EXPOSITION
CLASSIFICATION
There are two classification of folk
literature. These two are folk
speech and folk narrative. Folk
narrative are the prose type like
legend, folklore. Folk speech are
the verse type like folktale.
MAJOR FORMS OF FOLK
LITERATURE
FOLK SONG
A TRADITIONAL OR COMPOSED SONG TYPICALLY
CHARACTERIZED BY STANZAIC FORM, REFRAIN,
AND SIMPLICITY OF MELODY.
“The Moors and the Christians,” and the modern pageants—all these
are based on written texts, however crude, and are beyond the scope
of this treatment
FABLE
NARRATIVE FORM, USUALLY FEATURING ANIMALS
THAT BEHAVE AND SPEAK AS HUMAN BEINGS, TOLD IN
ORDER TO HIGHLIGHT HUMAN FOLLIES AND
WEAKNESSES
The Boy Who Cried Wolf. One of the most famous of Aesop's Fables,
The Boy Who Cried Wolf highlights the importance of always being
truthful.
FOLKTALE
The riddle goes as follows: “What goes on four legs in the morning, on
two legs at noon, and on three legs in the evening?” Answer = A man.
He crawls on four legs as a baby, two as an adult, and finally three as an
old man with a cane.