Directions: Read each item very carefully. Identify the dimensions of literary history from pre-colonial to contemporary. Write P if it is pre-colonial, S if it is Spanish colonial era, A if it is American colonial era and C if it is contemporary times. 1. A cry for freedom was underscored in various patriotic literary output from different regions of our country
2. Most common forms of oral literature like the riddle, the proverbs and the song, always seem to assume that the audience is familiar with the situations, activities and objects mentioned in the course of expressing a thought or emotion.
3. New literary forms such as free verse ſin poetryl, the modern short story and the critical essay were introduced.
4. It was deeply entrenched with the firm establishment of English as the medium of instruction in all schools and with literary modernism that highlighted the writer's individuality and cultivated consciousness of craft, sometimes at the expense of social consciousness. 5. The Filipino writer has become more conscious of his art with the proliferation of writer's workshops here and abroad and the bulk of literature available to him via the mass media including the internet.
6. Literature in this period may be classified as religious prose and poetry and secular prose and poetry.
7. While the early Filipino poets grappled with the verities of the new language, Filipinos seemed to have taken easily to the modern short story.
8. The subject was invariably the common experience of the people constituting the village-food-gathering, creature and objects of nature, work in the home, field, forest or sed, caring for children, etc.
9. Aside from religious poetry, there were various kinds of prose narratives written to prescribe proper decorum.
10. Writers in the vernaculars continued to write in the provinces​