The paper is thematically divided into three works in which the details needed to understand the overall goal of the paper are discussed in detail. The first part consists of the chapters “Cultural Awakening of Slavonia” and “Slavonian Literature and Enlightened Absolutism” which explains historical circumstances, i.e. the troubles that led to the characteristic development of literature in Slavonia. Literature then acquires an educational character, and the authors turn exclusively to the populace - the part of the population that needed education the most, and ultimately everything with the aim of strengthening the state. The second part consists of the chapters “Equating the term 'people' with the people”, “Between oral and artistic literature” and “The emergence of the phenomenon of folk literature” in which it starts from the defined meaning of the term “people” in the Croatian folk past to the present, this explains the interspace in literature to which popular literature belongs, which will lead to the result that popular literature is defined as a phenomenon. In order to understand this phenomenon better, the third and last part of the paper covers most of the text and includes chapters “Characteristics of folk literary phenomena” and “Slavonian folk authors” which will be dedicated to the original, detailed analysis of the features of folk literature phenomena first dealt with Divna Zečević and those in this paper served as a basis for reading the folklore in the works of Slavonian literature of the 18th century, which include Reljković's “Satir iliti divji čovik”, Došen's “Ajždaja sedmoglava” and Ivanošić's “Sličnorični natpis groba Zvekanovoga”.