SSC ASSISTANT TEACHER ENGLISH (HONS/PG)SYLLABUS

ENGLISH (HONS./PG) [ CODE -11]]
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Poetry
Sidney : Loving in Truth
Spenser : One day I wrote her name
Shakespeare : Shall I compare thee….
John Donne : The Good Marrow
George Herbert : Virtue
Alexander Pope : The Rape of the Lock (Cantos I & II)
Blake : The Tyger; The Lamb
William Wordsworth : Tintern Abbey
Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Christabel; Kubla Khan
P. B. Shelley : Ode to the West Wind; to a Skylark
John Keats : Ode to a Nightingale; To Autumn
Alfred Tennyson : Ulysses
Robert Browing : My last Duchess
W.B. Yeats : The Wild Swans at Coole
Wilfred Owen : Strange Meeting
T.S. Eliot : Hollow Men
Drama
Shakespeare : Macbeth
Goldsmith : She Stoops to Conquer
George Bernard Shaw : Arms and the Man
J. M. Synge : Riders To the sea
Novel
Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice
Charles Dickens : David Copperfield
Short Story and Essay
A. Short Story
Joseph Conard : The Lagoon
James Joyce : Araby
Somerset Maugham : The Lotos Eater
Katherine Mansfield : The Fly
B. Essay
Charles Lamb : Dream Children: A Reverie;
The Superannuated Man
G.B. Shaw : Freedom
Francis Bacon : of Studies
Grammar and Usage
Common Errors
Subject Verb Agreement; Tenses; Active and Passive Voice, Articles, Prepositions,
Adverbs, Adjective
Sentence Forms
Simple Compound, Complex, Relative Clauses
Joining and Splitting of Sentences
Narration
Direct and Indirect
Composition
A single paragraph of about 50-60 words to be written on a given topic
Literary Devices:
Rhetoric and Prosody