UP PGT ENGLISH CAREER ARCHITECT COMPREHENSIVE HANDBOOK

उत्तर प्रदेश शिक्षा सेवा चयन आयोग, प्रयागराज

Syllabus

Lecturer (PGT) - ENGLISH

(Subject Code- 03)

Section 1 - Language

1. Unseen Passage for Comprehension

2. Tenses, Spellings, Punctuations, Narration, Idioms and Phrases, Correction of Sentences, Transformation of Sentences, Synonyms, Antonyms, Homonyms, Rearrangement of the Jumbled Sentences, Prepositions, One Word Substitution, Prefixes and Suffixes

Section 2 - Literature

A. Literary Periods: (a) Renaissance & Reformation  (b) Restoration Period
(c) Neo-classical Period  (d) Romantic Period  (e) Victorian Period (f) Modern Period

B. Figures of Speech: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Hyperbole, Alliteration, Onomatopoeia, Oxymoron, Pun, Synecdoche, Metonymy, Euphemism, Apostrophe, Antithesis, Transferred Epithet

C. Rhetoric and Prosody

D. Major Stanza forms, Sonnet, Ballad, Elegy, Ode, Epic, Mock Epic

E. Types of Novel, Forms of Drama

F. Major Literary Critics: Aristotle, Longinus, Dr. Johnson, William Wordsworth, S. T. Coleridge, Matthew Arnold, T. S. Eliot

G. Authors and Their Contributions: Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, John Keats, P. B. Shelley, Charles Lamb, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Alfred Tennyson, Thomas Hardy, T. S. Eliot, Kamala Das, Mulk Raj Anand, Nissim Ezekiel, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Arthur Miller, Toni Morrison.

Instructions:

• Each question carries 3 marks.
• For every incorrect answer, 1 mark shall be deducted (⅓ negative marking).
• No marks shall be deducted for unattempted questions.
• If more than one option is marked for a question, it shall be treated as an incorrect answer and 1 mark shall be deducted.