Assam HSLC Class 10 Elective Manipuri flashcards

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Wari

Manipuri term for a short story or narrative prose piece. In the prose section, identifying a lesson as a wari signals that answers should address plot, character, and conflict.

Wakhallon

Manipuri term for essay or discursive prose. When a lesson is a wakhallon, answers should locate the writer's central claim and the examples offered in support of it.

Mapham

The setting of a narrative - place and time in which events occur. Naming it explicitly in story answers earns marks that a plot summary alone does not secure.

Khennaba

The conflict or complication in a story: the problem that drives events toward the turning point. Answers that omit it usually read as incomplete retellings.

Achingba wakhai

The lesson or moral drawn from a text. A full answer states the message and names the character or incident that demonstrates it, rather than giving a general precept.

Character with evidence

Answer pattern giving a character trait followed by one specific incident proving it. Trait alone is unsupported assertion; incident alone does not answer the question asked.

Upama

Simile in Manipuri poetics: an explicit comparison of two things using a comparative word. Identify it by naming the two compared items and quoting the line.

Rupaka

Metaphor in Manipuri poetics: an implied comparison where one thing is spoken of as another without a comparative word. Quote the line when naming it.

Theme versus central idea

Theme is the broad abstract subject of a poem; central idea is the specific statement the poem makes about that subject. Examiners treat the two as separate answer targets.

Lai-hara

A lyric or song-style poem expressing personal feeling, often devotional or patriotic. Recognising the form tells you to discuss emotion and rhythm rather than narrative sequence.

Tone in poetry

The speaker's attitude toward the subject - yearning, protest, devotion, or nostalgia. Support any tone claim with a single word or image taken from the poem.

Refrain

A line or phrase repeated at intervals in a poem. Repetition questions are answered by naming what the repeated line emphasises or what mood it sustains.

Personification

A figure giving human qualities to non-human things, such as nature or objects. In Manipuri poems it often carries the patriotic or devotional feeling of the verse.

Poet-poem pairing

Matching each prescribed poem to its writer. Examiners ask for the poet by name, and a mismatched name can invalidate an otherwise correct answer.

Rapid Reader recall

Factual memory of the supplementary reader's plot, names, and places. Answers should use the printed spellings of characters and locations rather than approximations.

Plot sequence answer

Chronological structure for narrative questions: initial situation, complication, climax, resolution. Locating the climax first makes ordering and sequencing items easy to solve.

Title-theme link

Answer strategy for questions on a chapter or story title: connect the title to the protagonist's change or to the story's outcome, citing one concrete scene.

Kinship in the Reader

Relationships such as parent-child, sibling, or rival that shape the supplementary reader's conflicts. State the relationship and the incident that reveals it.

Three-point long answer

Structure for Reader long answers within a word limit: event, character response, outcome. It covers the question without retelling the whole story in order.

SOV word order

Manipuri is verb-final: subject, then object, then verb. Grammar transformation items assume this order, so translating English word order directly produces errors.

Agglutinative verb

Manipuri builds verb forms by adding suffixes to a stem for tense, aspect, and causativity. Identify the base verb before adding any required suffix.

Agentive case marker

A suffix marking the subject of a transitive verb in Manipuri. The direct object normally stays unmarked, and confusing the two is the commonest transformation error.

Honorific pronoun choice

Manipuri distinguishes respect through pronoun and suffix selection. Using a plain form for an elder is a deliberate usage error in grammar items.

Natural gender

Manipuri gender is largely semantic rather than grammatical. Sex is shown by separate words or a qualifying word, so inventing feminine suffixes is incorrect.

Causative verb suffix

A suffix that turns a base verb into 'cause to do' - make, let, or have something done. Build it from the identified base form, not from the tense-marked form.

Postposition choice

Manipuri uses postpositions after the noun rather than English prepositions before it. Fill-in-the-blank items are decided by the particle the preceding word requires.

Letter format marks

Marks awarded for sender's address, date, salutation, body paragraphs, closing, and signature. Omitting the date or signature loses format credit regardless of content.

Formal letter opening

A respectful salutation followed by one sentence stating the single purpose of the letter. Complaint, request, and application letters all follow this pattern.

Essay marking heads

Composition essays are scored on content relevance, organisation into introduction-body-conclusion, and language accuracy. All three must be present to reach full marks.

Report writing questions

A report answers four things in order: what happened, where and when, who was involved, and what action follows. Notice writing follows the same skeleton.

Topic sentence control

In paragraph tasks, every sentence must support the opening topic sentence, and the final sentence closes the idea instead of introducing a new one.

Vocabulary in context

Comprehension items ask for the meaning a word carries in that passage, not its commonest dictionary sense. Check the surrounding sentence before answering.