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July 11th, 2014, 11:20 AM
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Re: Syllabus of Education Common Entrance Test of English Methodology

As you want to get the details of syllabus of Education Common Entrance Test of English Methodology so here it is for you:

A) Language Skills
(Marks: 50)
1. Language functions
2. Elements of phonetics
3. Grammar
4. Phrasal Verbs (idioms)
5. Writing Skills
6. Study Skills
7. Reference Skills
8. Vocabulary
9. Punctuations

(Questions to be set other than as in Part A General English.)
(Marks: 50)

B) Syllabus prescribed for Optional English at B.A. Degree level (B.A., ML / Special English) 50 Questions (50 Marks).

(1) Language and Literature:
1. Brief Survey of the English Language : Standardization : Word – formation, foreign influences (Latin, French, Scandinavian); Semantic Changes (relevant chapters from the Outline History of the English Language by F.T. Wood)
2. Understanding / Comprehension
3. of a literacy prose passage
4. of a poem

(2) Forms of poetry: evolution, kinds and variations:
• Sonnet : : Wordworth “Scorn not the Sonnet”.
• Ode : : Shelley “Ode to the West Wind”
• Elegy : :Gray “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
• Balled : :Yeats “The Balled of Father Giligen”
• Lyric : :Robert Burns “A Red, Red Rose”
• Dramatic : : Browing “My Last Duches Monologue

(3) Element of Drama :
• Plot/Structure : : Farrell Mitchell “The Best Laid Plans”
• Character : : J.B. Priestly “Mother’s Day”
• Dialogue : : Anton Chekov “The Marriage Proposal”

(4) Elements of Fiction :
• Point of View : : Khushwant Singh “The Interview”
• Setting/Atmosphere : : Edgar Allen Poe “The Tell-Talc Heart”
• Style/Narrative : : O Henry “The Gift of the Magi” Techniques

(5)A.Poetry from the Elizabethan age to the Pre-Romantic
• B.Spenser : : Sonnet “One Day I Wrote Her Name”
• Milton : : “L’allegro”
• Donne :: “The Canonization”
• Pope : : Extract from “The Rape of the Lock” (Cantos I & II)
• Blake : : “The School Boy”

(6) A. Development of drama : 16th and 17th Century British Drama
B. Shakespeare : : Othello

(7) Prose : Origin and Development of the Essay; kinds
B. Bacon : : “Of Youth and Age”
Steele :: “One Judicious Flattery”
Lamb : : “Dream Children”
Chesterton : : “On Lying in Bed”

(8) A. Fiction: Origin and Development of the Novel
B. Jane Austen : : Pride and Prejudice
Indian Writing in English – Indian English Literature

(9) Origin and growth of Indian English Literature.

(10) Poetry for detailed study.
1. Sri Aurobindo – Though The Paraclete
2. Toru Dutt – Sita
3. Nissim Ezekiel – Very Indian Poem in Indian English
4. A.K. Ramanjuan – The Hindoo: he reads his GITA and is calm at all events.
5. K.N. Daruwalla – The Epileptic
6. Gouri Desh Pande – The female of the Species

(11) DRAMA for detai led study
Girish Karnard : Naga Mandala

(12) FICTION
Kushwant Singh ;Train to Pakistan.
(13) American English Language and Literature :
The English language in America

(14) Poetry for detailed study
1) Wallace Stevens : Of Modern Poetry
2) Dickenson : “Hope” is Thing with Feathers
3) Emily Robert Frost: Stopping By woods on a snowy Eveninj
4) Robinson Jeffers : Science
5) Archibald Macleish :
“Not Marble Nor The Gilded ”
Monuments” For Adcle.
6) William Carlos Williams ; The Yachts.

(15) DRAMA for detailed study
Eugene O ‘Neill : The Hairy Ape.

(16) PROSE
Theoreau:Walden

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