Điệp liên hoàn, câu móc xích và liên châu luận

Abstract

Gradatio is a kind of repetition which is commonly used in treatises and poetry. Gradatio has a close relationship with chained clauses and sorites. In this paper, the author tried to shed light on the concept of gradatio, analyzed all of its forms and relationships with chained clauses and sorites as well as marching and parallelism, using Vietnamese text corpus (together with some supplementary text corpuses in Chinese and English respectively). The paper aims to add an issue that has not been fully mentioned and discussed in Vietnamese stylistics and rhetoric books. Additionally, the paper is hoped to contribute to assisting high school teachers in teaching relevant issues and content of the Vietnamese literature curriculum.