Microsoft Word Revised Syllabus Ver doc

Questions: 
1. 
Is there any different similes in the chapter avoidance of killing and avoidance of 
injurious others? 
2. 
For the development of yourself which chapter helped you much? 
3. 
Explain in detail the literary devices used in Thirukural? 
4. 
List out the important themes in Thirukural? 
5. 
Do prologue in Thirukural has simile? If yes, explain in detail? 
6. 
What are the difficulties you face while translating Thirukkural? 
7. 
Thirukural is important in your life? Elucidate 
8. 
How does the chapter on ‘rain’ related with the chapter ‘In praise of God’? 
9. 
Write about the significance of the title ‘In Praise of God’? 
10. Explain about the Thiruvalluvar views on ‘Hospitality’? 
11. Write about the selection words by V.V.S.Aiyar in the translation of Thirukural? 
12. Take any couplet from the Thirukkural and try to translate it into your native language. 

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The Odyssey 
On Allen Mandelbaum’s translation of the Odyssey 
Its work is studded with dazzling choices of the words and phrases, an occasional 
rhyme or burst of alliteration. In addition his translation is like Homer’s Greek, absolutely 
limpidly clear. Mandelbaum’s greatest gift is in choice of highly charged specific words like 
ape, connive, raucous, squalid. His success with rhyme is mixed - some rhyme please, other 
jar or distract, his alliteration works for better than rhymes. Sometimes alliteration is used for 
the sheer, irresistible pleasure of it. Mandelbaum have five stress lines, much briefer than 
Homer’s which servers the rapid flow but prevents any line to line correspondence. The 
pentameter verse is succinct, direct, rapid and sensitive, ideal fir this particular poem. The 
diction is colloquial without being slangy, and there are occasional reminders in the diction 
and the alliteration that this is a very old poem. On the whole, Mandelbaum’s choices are 
sound.