Nguyễn Thị Hồng Thu

Name: Nguyễn Thị Hồng Thu

Class: 10e20

I. Item 1

                                                 Thương vợ

                           Quanh năm buôn bán ở mom sông,

Nuôi đủ năm con với một chồng.

Lặn lội thân cò khi quãng vẵng,
Eo sèo mặt nước buổi đò đông.

Một duyên hai nợ âu đành phận,
Năm nắng mười mưa dám quản công.
Cha mẹ thói đời ăn ở bạc,
Có chồng hờ hững cũng như không!”

            “Tú Xương”

In this poem, the author used some rhetorical devices.

§  Metaphor: “thân cò” with his wife

§  Antithesis: “khi quãng vắng” with “buổi đò đông”; “năm con” with “một  chồng”

§  Irony: “có chồng hờ hững cũng như không”

§  Rhyme: “sông”, “chồng”, “đông”, “công”, “không”

§  Assonance: “ lặn lội”, “eo sèo”, “hờ hững”

The message: the author describe image of a scarifying, hard-working his wife in particular and women in the part in general and praise them as well.

     II. Item 2

                     

                           Bureaucracy is the most chronic issue in Vietnam

      III. Item 3

 

                                     The lion and the mouse

ONCE when a Lion was asleep a little Mouse began running up and down upon him; this soon wakened the Lion, who placed his huge paw upon him, and opened his big jaws to swallow him. “Pardon, O King,” cried the little Mouse: “forgive me this time, I shall never forget it: who knows but what I may be able to do you a turn some of these days?” The Lion was so tickled at the idea of the Mouse being able to help him, which he lifted up his paw and let him go. Some time after the Lion was caught in a trap, and the hunters, who desired to carry him alive to the King, tied him to a tree while they went in search of a waggon to carry him on. Just then the little Mouse happened to pass by, and seeing the sad plight, in which the Lion was, sent up to him and soon gnawed away the ropes that bound the King of the Beasts. “Was I not right?” said the little mouse.

The message: “LITTLE FRIENDS MAY PROVE GREAT FRIENDS.”