Max. Marks : 100
Theory : 90 marks
Internal Assessment : 10
Time Allowed : 3 hrs
Teaching hours per week : 06
Objectives:
To provide critically sensitive and analytical understanding of literary terms, concepts and genres to
the students to develop their ability to appreciate and analyze different lliterary texts.
To empower the students to read, analyze and write about a text in an independent manner.
To enhance students ability to use grammatical conventions appropriately.
To sharpen their writing skills to write clearly, coherently and cohesively.
To enable the students to explore, discuss and express their views on various topics.
To motivate the students to develop basic tools of analyzing a variety of literary texts.
To enable them to have a comprehensive knowledge of English language and literature.
To empower average student in such a way that English learning becomes a pleasurable endeavour.
TEXT PRESCRIBED:
An Anthology of English Verse
Ed. Department of English, Deen Dayal Upadhayaya, Gorakhpur University. New Delhi: OUP, 2004
Prescribed poems:
i. John Donne: The Sun Rising
ii. Alexander Pope: From Essay on Man
iii. Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in the Country Churchyard
iv. William Blake: The Tiger
v. William Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey
vi. John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale
vii. Tennyson: Ulysses
viii. Browning: My Last Duchess
ix. Matthew Arnold: To Marguerite
x. Hopkins: Pied Beauty
xi. A. K. Ramanujan: History
xii. W.B. Yeats: A Prayer for my Daughter
xiii. T.S. Eliot: Journey of the Magi
xiv. Thomas Hardy: The Darkling Thrush
xv. Philip Larkin: The Trees
LITERARY TERMS:
Allegory, Allusion, Antithesis, Epic, Epithet, Hyperbole, Internal Rhyme, Rhyme Royal, Terza Rima
Metaphor, Metonymy, Medias Res, Oxymoron, Mood, Tone, Personification, Stanza, Spenserian Stanza,
Satire, Free paragraph
TESTING SCHEME:
Section-A
1. Five literary terms out of eight are to be attempted in about 50-60 words. 15 marks
2. Short answer type question in about 50-60 words from the prescribed text. Five out of seven are to be
attempted. 15 marks
3. Long answer type of questions in about 100-120 words from the prescribed text. Three out of five are
to be attempted. 15 marks
Section – B
4. Precis Writing 10 marks
5. Identifying figures of speech in sentences (unseen)
Metonymy, Epithet, Oxymoron, Epigram, Metonymy 10 marks
(The examiner will set ten different lines with an instruction to identify the figure(s) of speech in each
sentence. The sentences should be examples of different figures of speech as mentioned above.
The students are required to answer all. There will be no choice.)
6. Grammar:
i. Choose the correct meaning of the word 5 marks
ii. Complete the incomplete sentences 5 marks
iii. One word substitution 5 marks
7. Comprehension (Unseen passage of about 1000 words) 10 marks
(The examiner will set an unseen passage of about 1000 word for comprehension. The passage will
be followed by 5 questions to be answered in not more than 20-30 words each.)
