The syllabus of Jammu University Entrance test (JUET) for admission in MA (Master in English) in English in University of Jammu is as follows:

ENGLISH

UNIT-I: HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

1. Elizabethan Period: The Renaissance and Reformation Movements; Influence of
Renaissance and Reformation on the Elizabethan Literature; Main trends of Elizabethan Prose, Poetry and Drama
2. Jacobean and Restoration Period: Main features of Jacobean Drama; Main characteristics of Restoration Comedy
3. Neo-Classical Period: Main characteristics of Neo-Classical Poetry; Main Features of Neoclassical Prose; Leading characteristics of Neo-classical Drama
4. Romantic Period: Background of the Romantic Movement; Leading characteristics of Romantic Poetry; Main characteristics of Romantic Prose
5. Victorian Literature: Main trends of the Victorian Poetry; Main features of the Victorian Prose; Main characteristics of the Victorian Fiction
6. Twentieth Century Literature (1900-1959): Main trend of the 20th Century Poetry; Main Dramatic trends ; Main trends of English Novel

Unit –II: DRAMA
Kind of Drama: Tragedy, Comedy, Tragi-comedy, Comedy of manners, History Play.
William Shakespeare: Macbeth; Julius Caesar; R.B. Sheridan: The Rivals; Henrik Ibsen: Doll’s House; G.B. Shaw: Candida

Unit – III: PROSE AND FICTION
Key Concepts: Epigrammatic, Aphorism, Pathos, Irony, Satire, Wit, Realism
Verisimilitude
Prose: Francis Bacon: Of Studies; Joseph Addison: The Exercise of Fans; Charles
Lamb: In praise of Chimney Sweepers; Arthur Clutton Brock: The Defects of English
Prose; J.B. Priestley: On Doing Nothing
Novel: Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre; R.K. Narayan: The Vendor of Sweets

Unit- IV: POETRY
KINDS OF POETRY : Lyric, Ode, Elegy, Sonnet, Ballad, Dramatic Monologue; Figuresof Speech: Simile, Hyperbole, Oxymoron, Synecdoche, Personification, Metaphor, Metonymy, Paradox, Apostrophe, Pun, Allusion, Allegory, Alliteration, Assonance, Onomatopoeia, Conceit, Zeugme.
POEMS: John Milton: Satan’s Speech; Andrew Marvel: To His Coy Mistress; John
Keats: Ode to Autumn Eve of St. Agnes; William Wordsworth: Ode to Duty, Lines
Composed on Tintern Abbey; Matthew Arnold: Scholar Gypsy; T.S. Eliot: Journey of the Magi; Wilfred Owen: Strange Meeting; Robert Browning: My Last Duchess; S.T.
Coleridge: Youth and Age; William Shakespeare: The Lover, The Lunatic and the Poet;
Emily Dickinson: Renunciation.