Vietnam Literature Flashcards
viet literature consists of two parts namely
folk and written
aka oral literature
folk literature
ex. kanji, chu nom, chu quoc ngu
written literature
national language
chu Quoc ngu
widespread nationwide from early 20th century
chu Quoc ngu
showed changes in literary life; a modern movement to liberate viet poetry from restrictive rules of classical chinese poetry
New Poetry Movement
group influenced by the west and created modern viet novel
Tu Luc Van Doan
traditional oral literature
Truyen
chinese-viet literatue
Han Viet
modern literature; anything written in the romanticized Quoc ngu alphabet
Quoc Am
among the most important elements in most of viet verse forms
tones
flat tone; comprised of ngang and nuyen
Bang
sharp or non-flat tone; comprised of sac, hoi, nga, nang
Trac
rich rhymes; two words have the same final sound
Van Giau
two words have nearly similar final sound
Van Ngheo
measured by words per line rather than syllables
Tho Bon Chu or Four-Word Verse
each line has 4 words
Tho Bon Chu or Four-Word Verse
uses either alternate or envelope rhyme; can be written in quatrains or octaves (Six-Eight Poetry)
Tho Sau Chu or Six-Word Verse
6 words per line
Tho Sau Chu or Six-Word Verse
written with seemingly more flexible tonal pattern than most viet verses; rhymed; 7 words per line
Tho Bay Chu or Seven-Word Poetry
more flexible in stanza length as well as tonal and end rhyme; 8 words per line; rhymed
Tho Tam Chu or Eight-Word Poetry
