Tamil Nadu SSLC Tamil flashcards
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- Urainadai
- The Tamil term for continuous prose writing. In the SSLC exam it names the prose-lesson section drawn from the prescribed textbook, tested for content, theme, and language points.
- Thirku
- A grammar exercise that expands a compressed or compound phrase into a full phrase with the implied words and case markers restored, keeping the original meaning intact.
- Vazhakku
- A grammar exercise converting colloquial or dialect spoken forms into standard written Tamil, for example changing a spoken present-tense verb ending to its formal written form.
- Porul in prose questions
- In prose lessons, porul questions ask for the meaning of a phrase as used in that lesson's context, so the answer is a contextual paraphrase rather than a dictionary gloss.
- Seiyul
- The Tamil term for verse or poetry. In the exam it denotes the prescribed-poem section, where poet, source, thinai, figures of speech, and message are tested.
- Five thinai
- The Sangam landscape categories: Kurinji (union), Mullai (waiting), Marutham (quarrel and reunion), Neithal (pining), and Palai (elopement or desert journey). Each maps to a poetic situation.
- Uvamai ani
- Simile, a figure of speech comparing two things using comparison words such as 'pol', 'pola', or 'anna'. The comparison is explicit, unlike metaphor.
- Uruvakam ani
- Metaphor, which identifies one thing with another without any comparison word. The exam asks you to name the figure and quote the line creating it.
- Thodarnilai ani
- A string of similes or comparisons heaped on one subject in succession. Recognised by several comparison images following one another for the same thing.
- Asai and seer
- Metrical units of Tamil verse: asai is of two kinds (ner and nirai), seer is a foot of two or more asai, and adi is a line composed of seer.
- Thunai Nool
- The supplementary reader of the Tamil textbook. Its stories are examined separately from prose, focusing on plot order, character motive, and moral resolution.
- Character sketch answer
- A complete answer giving one trait, one incident from the story that proves the trait, and the character's change or lack of change by the story's end.
- Sol vagai
- Parts of speech in Tamil grammar: peyar (noun), vinai (verb), idaichol (interjection), and urichol (modifier), with urichol splitting into peyar-urichol and vinai-urichol.
- Theri-vinai
- A finite verb that carries person, number, and tense markers. It contrasts with vinai-yechcham, the non-finite forms that lack person and number marking.
- Eight vetrumai
- The eight Tamil cases: eluvai (nominative), ai (accusative), aal (instrumental), ku (dative), in (ablative), athu (genitive), kan (locative), and vili (vocative).
- Three kaalam
- The three tenses of Tamil verbs: iṟandha kaalam (past), nigaḻ kaalam (present), and ethir kaalam (future), each marked by distinct suffixes or infixes.
- Katturai structure
- Essay structure in three parts: munnurai (introduction), karupporul (body with two or three supported points), and mudivurai (conclusion), one idea per paragraph.
- Official letter components
- Sender address, date, receiver address with designation, subject line, salutation, formal body, closing, and signature with name. The subject is a short noun phrase.
- Personal letter register
- Personal letters use an informal salutation and closing and may address the reader directly, unlike official letters, which keep formal register and avoid contractions.
- Functional writing
- Short practical formats such as notice, invitation, advertisement, or report. Each must state purpose, essential details like date, time and place, and the issuing authority.
- Unseen passage inference
- A question type asking why something happened or what the writer implies. The answer must be supported by a line or phrase quoted from the passage itself.
- Edhirchchol
- Antonym. In comprehension and vocabulary items the answer must be a single word in the same part of speech as the given word, not a phrase.
- Title suggestion task
- A comprehension item asking for a short noun phrase capturing the passage's central idea, usually with one sentence justifying why the title fits.
- Skimming strategy
- Reading each paragraph's topic sentence first, then locating the paragraph containing a question's keyword before writing the answer in a full sentence.
- Tholkappiyam
- The oldest extant Tamil grammar, attributed to Tholkappiyar, organised into eluthu (letters), sol (words), and porul (content, including thinai classification).
- Thirukkural structure
- Thiruvalluvar's work of 133 chapters of ten couplets each, 1,330 kurals total, in three books: Arathuppal, Porutpal, and Kamathuppal.
- Aimperumkappiyam
- The five great Tamil epics: Silappathikaram, Manimekalai, Jivaka Chintamani, Valayapathi, and Kundalakesi. Silappathikaram is attributed to Ilango Adigal.
- Ettuthogai and Pattuppattu
- The eight anthologies and ten idylls of Sangam literature, the earliest layer of Tamil poetry, dated roughly between 300 BCE and 300 CE.
- Nalayira Divya Prabandham
- The collection of four thousand verses of the Alwars, the Vaishnava devotional poets. Andal is the only woman among the twelve Alwars.
- Kural metre
- The couplet form of Thirukkural: a first line of seven metrical units and a second of four, with the concluding idea carried in the second line.
- Pazhamozhi
- A proverb. Exam answers must give the figurative meaning and a short sentence showing the situation in which the proverb is used.
- Oru sollil
- A vocabulary exercise asking for one Tamil word that replaces a whole phrase while preserving its meaning exactly, with no change of register.