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Solving Guide:
I. KEY POINTS TO REMEMBER
1. Express your thoughts and emotions about life around you using the methods of self-expression and description to evoke the expressive subject and convey emotions.
2. Self-expression and description here aim to elicit emotions, as emotions dominate rather than narrating or describing the full story or scene.
For example: - To express, in the poem 'The Song of the Wind-Damaged House,' Đỗ Phủ successfully used the methods of self-expression and description to evoke the expressive subject (his wind-damaged thatched house) and convey emotions (the poet's lofty dreams at the end of the poem). Similarly, to express deep sympathy and love for his father, Duy Khán focused on describing and narrating the toes, feet, and the life journey of the hardworking father through those feet. Both poets and writers use self-expression and description, not for the purpose of narrating events and describing scenes (or people) but to evoke emotions, as emotions dominate the expressive nature of the text.
II. PRACTICE - TRAINING
A. Guide to exercises in the textbook
1. Students, do this exercise on your own. Pay attention to applying self-expression and description elements to make the expression in a prose essay. Combine both indirect expression (through self-expression and description) and direct expression at the end of the essay.
2. This is an exercise simulating transforming someone else's article into your own using your own expression. The requirement is for you to combine self-expression and description to convey:
- Self-expression: The story of untangling hair to get candy sprouts from the past.
- Description: The scene of your mother combing her hair in the past, the image of your mother.
- Expression: A deep longing for your mother.
(Note: Simulate, not imitate. Do not copy existing text).
B. Additional Exercise
Collect more prose passages expressing the use of self-expression and description to learn the thinking, ideation, and writing style of various authors. Copy these passages into your literary notebook.
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