KSEAB SSLC Urdu (Third Language 66U) flashcards

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Main idea question

An item asking for the passage's central point. The correct option must cover the whole text, not one paragraph or one detail, and must not be an over-general statement.

Vocabulary in context

A question type where an unfamiliar word's meaning is fixed by its sentence. Substitute each option into the original sentence and keep the one preserving logic and tone.

Inference question

An item using words like 'implies' or 'suggests'. The answer is not stated directly but is logically forced by evidence in the passage, so literal repeats are wrong.

Title selection

Choosing a heading for a passage. The best title is brief, names the central theme, and avoids both a single supporting detail and a claim broader than the text.

Character answer formula

A complete character answer gives one quality, one incident proving it, and a comment on how that trait affects the story's events.

Theme statement

A single sentence naming the story's message, supported by two textual events. The author's biography is not evidence and earns no marks.

Narrator versus author

The narrator tells the story; the author writes it. An opinion voiced by a character or narrator is not automatically the writer's own message.

Quotation question

An item quoting a line from the prescribed prose. A full answer names the speaker and describes the situation in which the words were spoken.

Tashbeeh (simile)

A figure of speech comparing two things with an explicit comparison word such as 'jaise', 'misal' or 'manind'. Both compared things are named in the line.

Istiaara (metaphor)

A figure of speech that transfers a quality directly without a comparison word, as when a brave man is called a lion.

Takraar (repetition)

Deliberate repetition of a word or phrase for emphasis or emotional effect. It is distinct from qaafiya, which is end-rhyme between lines.

Husn-e-ta'leel

A poetic device giving an imaginative, pleasing cause for a real event instead of a scientific explanation, common in classical Urdu poetry.

Mubaligha (hyperbole)

Exaggeration used for effect, where the statement is not meant literally. Identify the exaggerated claim before naming the figure of speech.

Poetry theme answer

State the central idea, such as patriotism or love of nature, in one sentence, then quote one line from the poem as supporting evidence.

Urdu grammatical gender

Every Urdu noun is masculine or feminine. Adjectives and verbs must agree with that gender, and the agreement is a frequent exam error.

ka/ke/ki agreement

These possessive markers agree in gender and number with the thing possessed, not with the possessor. Use ka with masculine, ki with feminine nouns.

Ne case marker

A marker placed after a transitive subject in perfective tenses. With 'ne', the verb agrees with the object rather than the subject.

Postposition placement

Urdu postpositions follow the noun they govern: 'ghar mein', 'mez par', 'kitab ka'. The preceding noun may take its oblique form.

Mutraadif and mutzaad

Mutraadif means synonyms and mutzaad means antonyms. Confirm the part of speech first, since a synonym must match the word's grammatical class.

Muhavara (idiom)

A fixed Urdu expression whose accepted figurative meaning is required in answers. A literal word-for-word gloss is marked wrong.

Formal letter blocks

Sender's address, date, receiver's designation and address, salutation, body, closing, signature. Omitting any block loses format marks.

Urdu salutation choice

Formal letters open with 'Janab-e-Aali' or an office designation; informal letters use 'Aziz' or 'Pyare' plus the relation.

Essay paragraph count

About 200 words equals roughly 12-15 Urdu sentences: an introduction, two or three body paragraphs each carrying one idea, and a conclusion.

Paragraph connectors

Linking words such as 'is ke ilawa', 'chunanche' and 'natija' join sentences in a paragraph and signal addition, consequence and conclusion.

Verb-final word order

Urdu places the verb last, so an English subject-verb-object sentence becomes subject-object-verb. Translate meaning, not English word order.

English articles in Urdu

English 'a', 'an' and 'the' usually have no Urdu equivalent. Do not insert 'ek' into every translated sentence just because an article appears.

Perfective with chuka

English present perfect is often rendered with 'chuka/chuki/chuke' or a simple perfective form, chosen according to whether the action is completed now.

Passive in Urdu

English passive voice is rendered with a past participle plus a form of 'gaya/gayi/gaye', agreeing in gender and number with the subject.

Non-detailed text reading

Supplementary-text questions test plot, characters and moral rather than line-level language, so build a quick timeline of events before answering.

Counterfactual story question

An item asking what would have happened if events differed. The answer must follow logically from facts the story already establishes.

Story conflict

The central struggle between characters or forces. In supplementary texts, title and theme questions usually turn on identifying this conflict first.

Contextual word meaning

In the supplementary text, an unfamiliar word is defined by its surrounding sentence. A dictionary sense that does not fit the sentence is wrong.