VIETNAM LITERATURE Flashcards
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VIETNAM LITERATURE PARTS
folk and written literature
is oral literature
folk literature
includes kanji, nom letters and national language literature
written literature
nom letters
chu nom
national languae
chu quoc ngu
This was a modern movement to liberate Vietnamese poetry from restrictive rules of classical Chinese poetry.
new poetry movement
influenced by the West created modern Vietnam novel.
tu luc van doan
three main types of vietnamese literature
truyen
han viet
quoc am
traditionsl oral literature
truyen
chinese vietnamese literature
han viet
modern literature of anything written in the romanticized quoc ngu alphabet
quoc am
are among the most important elements in most of Vietnamese verse forms.
tone
In poetry, the tones of Vietnamese language are divided based on their falling and rising nature into two categories:
bang
trac
flat; comprises of two tone
ngang
huyen
bang
There are two kinds of rhymes in Vietnamese poetry.
van giau
van ngheo
rich rhymes
van giau
when two words have the same final sound and their tones come from the same category.
van giau
poor rhymes
van ngheo
when two words have nearly similar final sound and their tones come from the same category.
van ngheo
DIFFERENT POETIC FORMS OF VIETNAM
Tho Bon Chu or Four Word Verse
Tho Sau Chu or Six-Word Verse
Tho Bay Chu or Seven Word Poetry
Tho Tam Chu or Eight Word Poetry
Itis written as its name implies, measuring the number of words per line rather than syllables.
Tho Bon Chu or Four Word Verse
stanzaic, written in a series of couplets
measured by the number of words in the line, each line has 4 words
Tho Bon Chu or Four Word Verse
It is measured by word count and uses either alternate or envelope rhyme. It can be written in quatrains or octaves.
Tho Sau Chu or Six-Word Verse
It is written with seemingly more flexible tonal pattern than most Viet verse with the exception of when an end word in the first line is flat, the 3rd word must be sharp and when the end word of second line is sharp, the 4th word in the line must be flat.
The elements
Tho Bay Chu or Seven Word Poetry