VIETNAM

Question 1

Vietnam National Traditional Dress

Answer 1

Ao Dai

Question 2

Vietnam National language:

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Quoc-ngu
-relatively recent invention, established in the 19 century

Sino-Vietnamese was the language of literature and government, employing Chinese characters.

Question 3

Religion in Vietnam

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combination of three religions: Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism

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Vietnam Government: Socialist State

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Socialist Republic of Vietnam

Question 5

Vietnamese culture is heavily influenced by the ____________

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Chinese Culture

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Vietnamese culture

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Value of Reputation
Elders are respected
Their war history is sacrosanct
Ghosts are real
No tipping culture
Family and clan are valued over individualism
Cuisine - Rice, Pho

Question 7

what is Vovinam – Viet Vo Dao?

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a very well-developed tradition of martial arts that is heavily influenced by Chinese martial arts.

genuine Vietnamese Martial Art (“Vo” means “Martial Arts”; “Vinam” stands for “Vietnam”)

“Viet Vo Dao” has been added, to become “Vovinam – Viet Vo Dao”

Question 8

Full Moon Festival

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“Tết Trung Thu”
or Mid-Autumn Festival
Celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese Han and Vietnamese calendars

Question 9

the festival commemorating Buddha’s birth,

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Vesak

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enlightenment and death
the holiday is known as Phật Đản and will widely be observed on May 29th.

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vesak

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candles are lit on floating lotus flowers and sent out into rivers around Vietnam.

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vesak

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the most important festival of the year in Vietnam

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Tet Festival

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Tet Nguyen Dan

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Tet Festival

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Celebrated as a time of renewal, Tet serves as an opportunity for Vietnamese people to pay homage to their ancestors and have family reunions

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Tet Festival

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the language of literature and government, employing Chinese characters.

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Sino-Vietnamese

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Vietnamese Folk Literature

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Myths, Epics, Legends , Fairy tales, Folk Ballads, Proverbs, sayings, Narrative verses, Folk theatre: puppet theatre,

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influences of Buddhist, Confucianist, and Taoist thoughts in literature
example:
The tale of Kieu

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Vietnamese Medieval literature (10th-19th century)

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closely linked to the country’s ongoing political struggles.
French Romanticism

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Modern literature

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Post-war & Post-Reform literature

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Memories of the war

Female writers and the expressions of gender and sexuality

Writings of/ about ethnic minorities

Depictions of daily life in peace time

Internationalization and travel writings
Viet kieu

Question 20

Written in 1700s
A folk poem
Unknown authors
Based on work chants, love chants, ballads, riddles, and sayings
Themes of love, marriage, religion, work, and nature

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The Cherished Daughter

Question 21

What poetry type is The Cherished Daughter?

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Lyric Poetry

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type of poetry that is a private expression of emotion by an individual speaker. It is also highly musical and can feature poetic devices like rhyme and meter

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lyric poetry

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Under the umbrella of sociocultural reading context. It is a perspective dealing with the history that influenced the writing of literature.

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Historicism or traditional historical criticism

Question 24

What poetry type is A School Boy’s Apology?

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Narrative poem

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type of poem that tells a story. It has full storyline with all the elements of the traditional story

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Narrative poem

Question 26

Literary device used in the poem A school boy's apology?

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Visual Imagery

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literary device that appeals to the reader’s sense of sight by describing something the speaker or narrator of the poem sees.

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visual imagery

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Literary device used in the poem The Cherished Daughter

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REPETITION

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writer of the A School Boy’s Apology

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Le Thanh Huan

Question 30

divide into parts

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Partitioned

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a drop of dew

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dewdrops

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wrinkle and contract or cause to wrinkle and contract, especially due to loss of moisture.

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Shrivel

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a long-tailed crow with boldly marked (or green) plumage and a raucous voice.

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Magpie

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the astringent seed of an areca palm ( Areca catechu ), which is often chewed with betel leaves.

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Areca nuts

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authority, power, right, (literary) to weigh, expedient, temporary

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Quan

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a set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color.

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suit of clothes

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a person who arranges relationships and marriages between others, either informally or, in certain cultural communities, as a formal occupation.

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matchmaker

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irregular in shape

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Odd-shaped

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a thing that is or is likely to be wrongly perceived or interpreted by the senses.

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illusion

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unknown place or something that is out of this world

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plastic horizon

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completely empty; discharge or drain away

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void

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uncertain; indefinite or unclear character or meaning

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vague

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bring out of sleep; awaken.

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rouse

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writer of Inside Submarines

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Phan Nhien Hao

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one that mainly describes the subject — whether it be a person, an animal, or an inanimate object — often in great detail, rather than telling a story or expressing one's feelings

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descriptive poem

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A 14-line poem with a variable rhyme scheme originating in Italy and brought to England by Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, earl of Surrey in the 16th century

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sonnet Shakespearean or English Petrarchan or Italian

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Japanese poetic form that consists of three lines, with five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third.

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Haiku

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poem that reflects upon death or loss. Traditionally, it contains themes of mourning, loss, and reflection

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Elegy

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a humorous poem five lines long in which the first, second, and fifth lines have one rhyme and the third and fourth another

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limerick

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A narrative-driven poem with short, pacey stanzas typically comprised of multiple quatrains (groups of four lines).

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Ballad

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type of lyric poetry. are elaborately structured poems praising or glorifying an event or individual, describing nature intellectually as well as emotionally

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ode

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classic ode is structured in three major parts

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strophe antistrophe, and epode

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narrative poems that tell the story of a hero and their daring feats

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Epic

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the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

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alliteration

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in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible (e.g., penitence, reticence ).

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Assonance

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the recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity (chiefly as used in prosody).

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consonance

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the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g. cuckoo, sizzle ).

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Onomatopoeia

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correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.

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rhyme

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the systematic arrangement of musical sounds, principally according to duration and periodic stress

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rhythm

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a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g., as brave as a lion, crazy like a fox ).

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Simile

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a figure of speech in which a word or phrase denoting one kind of object or action is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them

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Metaphor

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the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

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Personification

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the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.

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irony

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the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant,

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Metonymy

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a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa

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Synecdoche

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what sound device is used in the Poem "The Cherished Daughter"?

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repetition

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The poem "The Cherished Daughter" all about

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Matchmaking concept family have major voice who their child's will marry.

Question 68

The poem "A School Boy's Apology" all about

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student sudden behavior in school due to the trauma he experience in the war that is happening in Vietnam.