Categories of Philippine Folk Literature
Eugenio classifies Philippine Folk Literature into three major groups: Folk narratives, folk speech, and folk songs.
Folk narratives can either be in prose - the alamat (myth), the legend, and the kuwentong bayan (folktale) - or in verse, as in the case of the folk narrative.
Folk speech includes the bugtong (riddle) and the salawikain (proverbs).
Folk songs can be sub-classified into those that tell a story (folk ballads), which are rare in Philippine folk literature, and those that do not, which form the bulk of the Philippines' rich heritage of folk songs.
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