What is hyperbole according to Literature curriculum in Vietnam? What are characteristics and effects of hyperbole in Vietnam?

What is hyperbole according to Literature curriculum in Vietnam? What are characteristics and effects of hyperbole in Vietnam?

Hyperbole is a literary device where the speaker or writer magnifies the level, nature, or scope of a thing or event many times over its actual state.

Example:

Instead of saying: "Mình rất đói."

Hyperbole: "Mình đói đến mức có thể ăn hết cả con voi."

Instead of saying: "Cái áo này đẹp."

Hyperbole: "Cái áo này đẹp đến nỗi các vì sao cũng phải ghen tị."

Examples in literature:

Folksongs: "Công cha như núi Thái Sơn/ Nghĩa mẹ như nước trong nguồn chảy ra."

"Đêm tháng năm chưa nằm đã sáng, ngày tháng mười chưa cười đã tối."

"Mồ hôi mà đổ như mưa ruộng cày."

Poetry: "Bóng Bác cao lồng lộng/ Ấm hơn ngọn lửa hồng."

"Lòng ta vui như mở hội."

Characteristics of hyperbole:

Magnification: Intensifies the degree of an object or phenomenon many times over reality.

Creating an impression: Leaves a strong, unforgettable impression on the reader or listener.

Enhances expressiveness: Makes the writing more vivid and engaging.

Not lying: Hyperbole is a literary device where the speaker is fully aware of the magnification.

Effects of hyperbole:

Emphasizing: Highlights features and qualities of objects or phenomena.

Eliciting emotion: Evokes strong emotions in the reader or listener (e.g., joy, surprise, anger).

Enhancing artistry: Makes the writing more vivid and engaging.

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What are requirements for students learning rhetorical devices in Literature in Vietnam?

Based on Clause 2, Section 4 of the General Education Program for Literature issued with Circular 32/2018/TT-BGDDT, the requirements for learning rhetorical devices according to the 2018 General Education Program for Literature are as follows:

- For students in grades 3, 4, and 5, they must understand the effects of personification, comparison.

- For students in grade 6 and grade 7, they must understand rhetorical devices like metaphor, metonymy, hyperbole, euphemism.

- For grade 8 and grade 9, they must understand devices like repetition, pun, sarcasm, oxymoron.

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At what grade do students in Vietnam learn about hyperbole?

Based on Subsection 2, Section 5 of the General Education Program for Literature issued with Circular 32/2018/TT-BGDDT, students learn about hyperbole starting from grade 7. Additionally, the Vietnamese language knowledge for grade 7 students includes:

- Idioms and proverbs: characteristics and functions

- Terminology: characteristics and functions

- The meaning of commonly used Sino-Vietnamese elements (e.g., quốc, gia) and the meanings of words containing those elements (e.g., quốc thể, gia cảnh)

- Context and meaning of words within the context

- Numeral, adverb: characteristics and functions

- Main and auxiliary components in a sentence: extending main components and auxiliaries with phrases

- Uses of ellipsis (cooperates with commas, indicates many similar things or phenomena not fully listed; shows broken or hesitant speech; lengthens the rhythm of a sentence, prepares for the appearance of a word indicating unexpected or humorous, satirical content)

- Rhetorical devices of hyperbole, euphemism: characteristics and effects

- Coherence and coherence of text: characteristics and functions

- Types of texts and genres

+ Narrative text: narrative about real events involving characters and historical events

+ Expressive text: expressive writing; four-line, five-line poems; paragraphs recording emotions after reading a four-line, five-line poem.

+ Argumentative text: the relationship between opinion, reasoning, and evidence; argumentative writing about an issue in life; analysis of a literary work

+ Informative text: footnotes and references; explanatory writing to explain a rule or law in a game or activity; report text; summary text with different lengths

- Language of regions: understanding and respecting language differences between regions

- Non-verbal communication means: images, data

Additionally, the literature materials for grade 7 include:

(1). Literary texts

- Fables, short stories, science fiction stories

- Poetry, four-line, five-line poems

- Essays, prose

- Proverbs

(2). Argumentative texts

- Social argumentation

- Literary argumentation

(3). Informative texts

- Texts explaining rules or laws in games or activities

- Report texts

>> See the 2018 General Education Program for Literature issued with Circular 32/2018/TT-BGDDT: Download