Odisha CHSE +2 Compulsory English flashcards
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- Skimming
- A fast reading of headings, first and last sentences to capture the main idea before detailed questions are attempted.
- Scanning
- A targeted search of a passage for specific information such as names, dates or figures, without reading every word.
- Inference question
- A comprehension question whose answer is not stated directly but must be drawn from evidence in the passage.
- Negative question
- A question asking which option is not true or does not occur, requiring three options to be verified and one rejected.
- Notice writing
- A short formal announcement headed NOTICE, carrying a date, a brief body and the writer's name and designation.
- Yours faithfully
- The subscription used in a formal letter addressed to an unnamed recipient, paired with the salutation Dear Sir or Madam.
- Topic sentence
- The opening sentence of a paragraph that states its controlling idea and is then supported by examples or reasons.
- Cohesive devices
- Linking words such as however, therefore and moreover that show the logical relation between sentences and paragraphs.
- Report writing
- A factual account written in past tense and third person, with a headline, a byline and dated opening paragraph.
- Third conditional
- A conditional using if plus past perfect in the clause and would have plus past participle in the main clause.
- Reported speech
- Indirect speech in which tense shifts back one step and time and place words change, as now to then.
- Passive voice
- A construction formed with the correct form of be plus the past participle, used when the doer is unknown or unimportant.
- Subject-verb agreement
- The rule that a verb agrees in number with its subject, as in one of the boys is and each of the students has.
- Preposition collocation
- A fixed pairing of verb or adjective with a preposition, such as depend on, insist on or capable of.
- Modal verbs
- Auxiliaries such as must, should, might and need not that express obligation, advice and degrees of possibility.
- The Gold Frame
- R.K. Laxman's story in which Datta damages a client's portrait and substitutes another print, satirising vanity.
- The Open Window
- Saki's story in which Vera's invented tale of the open window sends Framton Nuttel fleeing in panic.
- The Verger
- Maugham's story of Albert Foreman, dismissed for illiteracy, who becomes a wealthy tobacconist and satirises educated pretension.
- The Selfish Giant
- Wilde's story in which a walled garden stays in winter until children return and the Giant is led to paradise.
- The Last Leaf
- O. Henry's story in which Behrman's painted leaf restores Johnsy's will to live and costs him his own life.
- The Bet
- Chekhov's story in which a lawyer's fifteen years of solitary study lead him to renounce the two million roubles.
- Ballad stanza
- A four-line stanza, often rhyming abcb, with alternating longer and shorter lines, used in narrative poems.
- The Listeners
- De la Mare's poem in which a Traveller knocks at a moonlit door and the phantom listeners hear his departing footfalls.
- The Road Not Taken
- Frost's poem in which two roads are really about the same and the final sigh retrospectively invents a choice.
- Ozymandias
- Shelley's sonnet about a ruined statue whose boast of power is defeated by time and the empty desert.
- The Tyger
- Blake's poem of unanswered questioning, ending with the doubt whether the maker of the tiger also made the lamb.
- Personification
- A figure of speech giving human qualities to non-human things, as when a flower is said to dance.
- Julius Caesar
- Shakespeare's tragedy in which Brutus kills Caesar for the republic and Antony's rhetoric turns the crowd against the conspirators.
- Dramatic irony
- A situation in which the audience knows something a character on stage does not, creating tension or pathos.
- Soliloquy
- A speech delivered by a character alone on stage, revealing private thought to the audience alone.
- The Merchant of Venice
- Shakespeare's play in which Portia's casket test rewards the lead casket and the trial scene turns on mercy and the bond.
- The Monkey's Paw
- Jacobs' story in which a magical paw grants wishes with terrible consequences, its horror created through suggestion.