Section 1: English Language:
A. Unseen Passages
• Prose and poetry passages for:
o Language comprehension
o Literary appreciation
B. Grammar and Usage
• Punctuation
• Parts of speech
• Spellings
• Word formation and vocabulary
- Tense
- Narration
- Conditional sentences
- Concord
- Phrasal verbs and idiomatic expressions
- Transformation and synthesis of sentences.
C. Translation
• English to Hindi
• Hindi to English
D. Functional Writing
- Letter writing
- Dialogue writing
Section 2: Literatures in English
A. Literary Forms and Movements
- • Poetic Forms:
Allegory, Ballad, Ode, Sonnet, Blank Verse, Epic, Mock Epic, Heroic Couplet, Lyric,
Elegy, Dramatic Monologue, Free Verse, Rhyme and Metr - Dramatic Forms:
Tragedy, Comedy, Tragicomedy, Romance, One-act Play - Prose Forms:
Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, Travel Writing, Fictional Forms, Types of Essays - Movements and Schools:
Renaissance and Reformation, Neo-classicism, Metaphysical Poets, Romanticism,
Pre-Raphaelites, Modernism, Impressionism, Expressionism, Surrealism - Literary Devices:
Identification and understanding of figures of speech
B. Poetry: Trends and Movements
Poems/Poets for Detailed Study:
• Shakespeare
o Sonnet No. 29: "When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes"
o Sonnet No. 138: "When my love swears that she is made of truth"
• John Milton
o On His Blindness
o Paradise Lost (Book I, Lines 1–26)
• John Donne – Canonization
• Alexander Pope – The Rape of the Lock (Canto I)
• Thomas Gray – Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
• William Wordsworth
o Tintern Abbey
o The World is Too Much with Us
• P. B. Shelley
o Ode to the West Wind
o To a Skylark
• John Keats
o Ode on a Grecian Urn
o La Belle Dame sans Merci
• Alfred Lord Tennyson
o Break, Break, Break
o Ulysses
• Robert Browning
o My Last Duchess
o Prospice
• Matthew Arnold
o Dover Beach
o Memorial Verses
• W. B. Yeats
o The Second Coming
o Sailing to Byzantium
- T. S. Eliot – The Waste Land
- W. H. Auden – In Memory of W. B. Yeats
- Ted Hughes – Crow Alights
- Philip Larkin – Wants
- Walt Whitman – O Captain! My Captain!
- Emily Dickinson – Success is Counted Sweetest
- Robert Frost
- o Birches
o Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
- Rabindranath Tagore (From Gitanjali)
o Poem 11: Leave the Chanting
o Poem 12: Fruit Gathering
o Night of the Scorpion
o Philosophy
- Kamala Das – An Introduction
• A. K. Ramanujan – Obituary
- Derek Walcott – A Far Cry from Africa
C. Drama: Trends and Movements
Prescribed Texts:
• William Shakespeare
o Macbeth
o Twelfth Night
o The Merchant of Venice
• John Dryden – All for Love
• George Bernard Shaw – Arms and the Man
• John Galsworthy – Justice
• Harold Pinter – The Birthday Party
• Eugene O'Neill – The Hairy Ape
• Arthur Miller – All My Sons
• Girish Karnad – Hayavadana
D. Prose and Fiction: Trends and Movements
Essays and Non-fiction:
• Francis Bacon
o Of Studies
o Of Truth
• Joseph Addison – Sir Roger at Home, Will Wimble
- Richard Steele – The Spectator Club
Charles Lamb – Dream Children
E. V. Lucas – Tight Corners
A. G. Gardiner – In Defence of Ignorance
Bertrand Russell – The Road to Happiness
- Richard Wright – Twelve Million Black Voices
• Mahatma Gandhi – My Experiments with Truth
• Jawaharlal Nehru – The Discovery of India
Short Stories and Fiction:
• W. Somerset Maugham – The Luncheon
• Anita Desai – A Farewell Party
• Katherine Mansfield – The Fly
• O. Henry – The Last Leaf
Novels:•
• Henry Fielding – Joseph Andrews Jane
• Austen – Pride and Prejudice Charles
• Dickens – Great Expectations Thomas Hardy
• – The Mayor of Casterbridge George Orwell
– Animal Farm
• Virginia Woolf – Mrs. Dalloway
• William Golding – Lord of the Flies
• Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter
• Ernest Hemingway – The Old Man and the Sea
• John Steinbeck – The Grapes of Wrath
• Raja Rao – Kanthapura
• R. K. Narayan – The Bachelor of Arts
• Kamala Markandeya – Two Virgins
• Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart
Additional Literary Topics
1. Postmodern Literature
2. Colonial Literature
3. Postcolonial Literature
4. Indian Writing in English