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English — Model Syllabus Roadmap

22 Official 2024 Lecturer Disciplines — Syllabus Directory · Subjects 1–11

Useful for: SSB Lecturer (Degree Colleges)

Overview

English literature study spans literary periods, major writers, criticism, Indian writing in English, linguistics and language teaching.

Key points

Old and Middle English: Beowulf; Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
Renaissance and Elizabethan: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser.
Romantic period begins with "Lyrical Ballads" (1798) by Wordsworth and Coleridge.
Victorian and modern: Dickens, Eliot, Woolf, Joyce.
Criticism: Aristotle’s Poetics, T. S. Eliot, New Criticism, post-colonial theory.
Indian writing in English: Mulk Raj Anand, R. K. Narayan, Raja Rao.

Explanation

Linguistics and phonetics support ELT.
Literary terms (sonnet, epic, irony) are frequently tested.
American and world literatures appear in syllabi.
Close reading is a key skill.

Step by step

Place the question in its unit of the syllabus.
Recall the theory, thinker, law or work involved.
Eliminate options from other schools, periods or units.

Examples

"Lyrical Ballads" → 1798.
"The Canterbury Tales" → Chaucer.
"Untouchable" → Mulk Raj Anand.

Traps and advanced points

Trap: Wrong period placement.
Trap: Mixing writers and works.
Trap: Ignoring criticism.

Quick revision

Literary periods.
Criticism.
Indian writing in English.

Practice MCQs

'Paradise Lost' was written by
1. Geoffrey Chaucer
2. William Shakespeare
3. John Keats
4. John Milton
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Answer: (d) John Milton. It is an epic in blank verse.
'Lyrical Ballads' (1798), which began English Romanticism, was by
1. Keats and Shelley
2. Wordsworth and Coleridge
3. Byron and Scott
4. Tennyson and Browning
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Answer: (b) Wordsworth and Coleridge. Its preface defined poetry as spontaneous feeling.
Who is called the father of English poetry?
1. John Milton
2. Edmund Spenser
3. Geoffrey Chaucer
4. William Blake
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Answer: (c) Geoffrey Chaucer. He wrote The Canterbury Tales.
A sonnet has
1. 10 lines
2. 12 lines
3. 16 lines
4. 14 lines
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Answer: (d) 14 lines. Petrarchan and Shakespearean are two main types.
'Hamlet' is a tragedy by
1. Ben Jonson
2. Christopher Marlowe
3. William Shakespeare
4. John Webster
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Answer: (c) William Shakespeare. Its hero is the Prince of Denmark.

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