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PREPARATORY ACTIVITY

■ Write as many rhyming words as you can for the given words. Write your answer on the
space provided.
■ 1. Read -____________________________________________________
■ 2. Night-____________________________________________________
■ 3. Mood-____________________________________________________
■ 4. Brick-_____________________________________________________
■ 5. Fun-______________________________________________________
■ 6. Mine-_____________________________________________________
■ 7. Car-______________________________________________________
■ 8. Sing-_____________________________________________________
■ 9. Day-______________________________________________________
■ 10. Came-____________________________________________________
TEXT TULA
■ One of the most recent genres in Philippine Literature
is the text tula, a poetry genre mastered by Frank
Rivera where entire poems are written and read on
mobile phones. Though usually short due to the
necessity of the number of characters allowed in text
messaging, the elements of poetry are still present in
this genre.
Frank Rivera: Makata sa cell phone

■ Also known as ―makata sa cell phone‖ with his popular ―textula‖ series, Rivera has, to
date, authored 21 books of plays for stage, radio, TV and film; plus short stories, essays
and four books of poetry published by the UST Publishing House. He has received four
National Book Awards while his poems and ―textula‖ are read in political rallies,
passed around as text messages, read on radio, posted on social media, printed in tabloid
and newspaper columns, recited in school programs and utilized as material in oratorical
and declamation contests.
Tanaga

■ The Tanaga is a type of Filipino poem, consisting of four lines with seven to nine
syllables each with the same rhyme at the end of each line --- that is to say a 7-7-7-7 or
9-9-9-9 Syllabic verse, with an AABB rhyme scheme. To compare, the Japanese haiku
has 17 phonetic units divided into three phrases of 5, 7 and 5 units respectively.
2 Tanagang UAAP by Frank G. Rivera
■ 1. What is the text tula about? The Tanaga is a type of Filipino poem, consisting of four
lines with seven to nine syllables each with the same rhyme at the end of each line ---
that is to say a 7-7-7-7 or 9-9-9-9 Syllabic verse, with an AABB rhyme scheme. To
compare, the Japanese haiku has 17 phonetic units divided into three phrases of 5, 7 and
5 units respectively. 41 2. Is it similar to the traditional poems that you have read
before? In what way is it similar or different? 3. Does the text tula have rhyming
patterns? 4. How about the verse, do they have a similar number of syllables per line? 5.
What are possible venues of social media where we can use text tula?
What are the words that rhyme based on the “Tanaga‘ of
Frank Rivera? Enumerate the words and write the rhyme
scheme or structure below.
1. 2.
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