1. History of English Literature
Old English Period
Middle English Period
Major literary movements:
2. Literary Forms & Genres
(a) Poetry
(b) Drama
- Tragedy
- Comedy
- Tragicomedy
- Problem Play
- One-Act Play
(c) Prose & Fiction
- Novel: Types
- Picaresque
- Gothic
- Historical
- Domestic
- Psychological
- Short Story
- Essay: Types & Structure
(d) Literary Terms
- Allegory
- Alliteration
- Imagery
- Symbol
- Irony
- Metaphor
- Simile
- Pun
- Paradox
- Oxymoron
- Allusion
3. English Grammar
- Parts of Speech
- Tenses
- Articles & Determiners
- Voice (Active/Passive)
- Narration (Direct/Indirect)
- Modals & Auxiliaries
- Prepositions
- Subject-Verb Agreement
- Degree of Comparison
- Clauses & Sentence Structure
- Error Detection
- Transformation of Sentences
4. English Language Skills
- Comprehension Passages
- Precis Writing
- Paragraph Writing
- Letter Writing (Formal/Informal)
- Note Making
- Resume Writing
- Report Writing
- E-mail & Notice Writing
5. Major Works & Authors
(a) Poetry
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- John Milton
- William Shakespeare
- Alexander Pope
- William Wordsworth
- S.T. Coleridge
- P.B. Shelley
- John Keats
- T.S. Eliot
- W.B. Yeats
(b) Drama
- William Shakespeare
- G.B. Shaw
- Henrik Ibsen
- John Osborne
(c) Novelists
- Jane Austen
- Charles Dickens
- Thomas Hardy
- George Eliot
- D.H. Lawrence
- Virginia Woolf
(d) Indian English Literature
- R.K. Narayan
- Mulk Raj Anand
- Raja Rao
- Ruskin Bond
- Arundhati Roy
- Amitav Ghosh
6. Literary Criticism & Theory
- Plato, Aristotle, Longinus
- Wordsworth’s Preface
- T.S. Eliot (Objective Correlative & Tradition and Individual Talent)
- Formalism & New Criticism
- Structuralism, Post-Structuralism
- Feminism, Marxism, Psychoanalytic Theory
7. Teaching of English (Pedagogy)
- Aims of Teaching English
- Methods of Teaching: Grammar-Translation, Direct Method, Communicative Approach
- Evaluation & Testing
- Remedial Teaching
- Language Skills (Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing)
8. Research & Communication in English
- Research Types
- Research Tools
- Data Collection Methods
- Basics of Academic Writing
- Plagiarism & Citation Styles
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