Maharashtra SSC Gujarati (First Language) flashcards

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Gadyavibhag

The prose section of the Gujarati First Language paper, containing essays, memoirs and short stories tested through gist, character, theme and title-justification questions.

Character sketch essentials

A prose answer giving four to six traits, each supported by a specific incident from the lesson, closed by naming the dominant quality of the character.

Title justification method

Explain the title's literal meaning, connect it to the central incident of the lesson, then show how it expresses the theme in three or four sentences.

Vakyaarth versus bhaavarth

Vakyaarth restates a sentence in plain words, while bhaavarth explains the writer's implied intention and emotional sense behind that sentence.

Padyavibhag

The poetry section, testing form, poet details, central message, figures of speech and rasa, usually requiring a quoted line as evidence for each claim.

Upama alankar

A simile figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another using words such as jevo, jevi or jevu, meaning like or as.

Rupak alankar

A metaphor in which the comparison is stated directly without any comparing word, so the subject is identified with the image itself.

Anupras alankar

Alliteration, the deliberate repetition of the same consonant sound in nearby words, producing a musical effect in the poem.

Yamak alankar

A figure in which the same word is repeated with different meanings in the same line or stanza, creating a wordplay effect.

Karuna rasa

The mood of compassion and sorrow evoked when a poem describes suffering, loss or separation, supported by tender and grieving language.

Duha chhand

A two-line metre whose halves conventionally carry thirteen and eleven matras respectively, common in devotional and didactic Gujarati poetry.

Unseen passage title

A short noun phrase of three to six words capturing the passage's main idea, never a full sentence and never a copied opening line.

Inference answer rule

State the reasoning in one line and attach textual support from the passage; an unsupported personal opinion earns no marks in comprehension.

Rapid reading target

A pacing guide of roughly thirty to forty seconds per short comprehension item, preserving time for the composition and grammar sections.

Svar sandhi

A vowel junction formed when two vowels meet at a word boundary, for example a plus i becoming e, or a plus u becoming o.

Dwandwa samasa

A compound whose members are joined by the sense of and, with both elements retaining equal importance, such as mother and father.

Bahuvrihi samasa

A compound that denotes a third entity possessing the qualities named by its members, rather than the members themselves.

Karan karak

The case of the instrument or means by which an action is done, marked in Gujarati by the postposition thi attached to the noun.

Karmani vachya

The passive voice, in which the object becomes the grammatical subject and the verb form agrees with that new subject.

Muhavaro

A fixed Gujarati idiom whose meaning is figurative rather than literal, so it must be explained by its conventional sense, not word by word.

Kahevat

A complete traditional proverb carrying a moral, explained by describing the situation in which people actually use it.

Ek shabd ma

A vocabulary item giving a descriptive phrase and requiring one exact Gujarati word, such as amar for one who never dies.

Jodni shabd

A fixed Gujarati word pair whose members conventionally occur together, so the second element cannot be swapped for a synonym.

Nibandh structure

An essay built of prastavna, madhyabhaag and upasamhaar, roughly two hundred fifty to three hundred words, with structure carrying its own marks.

Aupcharik patra layout

A formal letter containing sender address, date, receiver designation, subject line, respectful salutation, body, formal closing and sender's name.

Araj letter opening

A request or application letter that opens with the phrase savinay vinanti, then states the request, the reason and a closing appeal for action.

Soochna format

A notice of fifty to sixty words answering who, what, when, where and whom to contact, signed at the foot by the issuing authority.

Idiom translation rule

Translate an idiom by finding an equivalent Gujarati idiom expressing the same sense, never by rendering its words literally into Gujarati.

Transliteration in translation

The practice of writing proper nouns, technical terms and units in Gujarati script by sound rather than translating their meaning.

Report writing tense

Reports of events use past tense and third person throughout, avoiding first-person pronouns except inside directly quoted speech.

Non-detailed text focus

Supplementary reading questions test plot order, character relationships, speaker identification and theme, with shorter answers than prose questions.

Quotation identification

A supplementary reading item supplying a line from the text and asking both who spoke it and in what situation it was said.