Entry 1
Item 1: Poem
Qua đèo Ngang [1]
Bước tới Đèo Ngang, bóng xế tà,
Cỏ cây chen đá, lá chen hoa.
Lom khom dưới núi, tiều vài chú,
Lác đác bên sông, chợ mấy nhà.
Nhớ nước đau lòng, con quốc quốc,
Thương nhà mỏi miệng cái gia gia.
Dừng chân đứng lại, trời, non, nước,
Một mảnh tình riêng, ta với ta
Rhetorical devices:
- Rhyme: tà – nhà – gia – ta
- Pun: + Quốc : nước
+ Gia : nhà
- Repetition: word “Chen” in “Cỏ cây chen đá, lá chen hoa”
- Chiasmus: “Lom khom” is verb, but it is subject in sentence “Lom khom dưới núi, tiều vài chú”
Message:
The poem “Qua Deo Ngang” shows that Deo Ngang’s scenery is airy and neglected. Besides, the poet wants to express her homesick and loneliness.
Item 2: Fable
The City Mouse and the Country Mouse [2]
There once was a mouse who liked his country house until his cousin came for a visit.
"In the city where I live," his cousin said, "we dine on cheese and fish and bread. Each night my dinner is brought to me. I eat whatever I choose. While you, country cousin, work your paws to the bone for humble crumbs in this humble home. I'm used to finery. To each his own, I see!"
Upon hearing this, the country mouse looked again at his plain brown house. Suddenly he wasn't satisfied anymore. "Why should I hunt and scrape for food to store?" he said. "Cousin, I'm coming to the city with you!"
Off they went into the fine town house of the plump and prosperous city mouse.
"Shhh! The people are in the parlor," the city mouse said. "Let's sneak into the kitchen for some cheese and bread."
The city mouse gave his wide-eyed country cousin a grand tour of the leftover food on the table. "It's the easy life," the city mouse said, and he smiled as he bit into a piece of bread.
Just as they were both about to bite into a chunk of cheddar cheese, In came the CAT!
"Run! Run!" said the city mouse. "The cat's in the house!"
Just as the country mouse scampered for his life out of the window, he said, "Cousin, I'm going back to the country! You never told me that a CAT lives here! Thank you, but I'll take my humble crumbs in comfort over all of your finery with fear!"
Rhetorical devices:
- Metaphor: the city mouse (person who is rich, lives in wealthy place); the country mouse (person who likes freedom, lives in free, peaceful and poor place); cat (disasters, dangers); cheddar cheese, bread (wealthy, completion)
Message:
The wealthy always goes with worries and frights. Although we are poor, we have the peacefulness and that is the most important thing in our lives.
Item 3: Cartoon[3]
Rhetorical devices:
- Metaphor: a enormous man (technology); a little baby (education)
- Overstatement: a little baby hugs a man’s leg
Message:
Technology develops very fast even though it is a part of education. Education always follows the technology’s developments.
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[1] Sách giáo khoa Ngữ văn lớp 7 tập 1
Thank 4 ur entry,I really like it:D, so i want to leave u some comments:
Trả lờiXóa- for the 1st item, i think the way the poet put the word "lom khom" in the sentence “Lom khom dưới núi, tiều vài chú” is not exactly chiasmus. this sentence maybe an inversion.
- for the 2nd item-the meaningful story, i love the message which u found :)
- for the 3rd item, i suggest that u should make a little change in the message. in my opinion, technology is a tool for education not exactly a part.