UP GIC English Lecturer Syllabus 2025 – Exam Pattern, Detailed Topics & Study Material

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English Literature 

Major Authors

Geoffrey Chaucer; Shakespeare, John Milton, Dryden, Pope, William Wordsworth, P.B. Shelley,

John Keats, A.L. Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, W.B. Yeats, T.S.

Eliot, G.B. Shaw, George Orwell, Raja Rao, Mulk Raj Anand, Nissim Ezekiel, Robert Frost, Ernest

Hemingway, Harold Pinter, R.N. Tagore, Girish Karnad, V.S. Naipaul, Amitav Ghosh, Vikram Seth,

Kamla Das, Ted Hughes, Walt Whitman, Khushwant Singh.

Literary Terms, Movements, and Forms

• Renaissance

• Reformation

• Metaphysical Poetry

• Classicism

• Romanticism

• The Pre-Raphaelites

• Modern Literature

• Major stanza Forms

• Sonnet

• Ballad

• Mock Epic

• Elegy

• Post Modern Literature

• Colonial Literature

• Post Colonial Literature

• Indian Writings in English

Major Critics

Aristotle, Dryden, Dr. Johnson, S.T. Coleridge, Wordsworth, Matthew Arnold, T.S. Eliot.

Section B: Language

• A short unseen passage for comprehension

• Correction of sentences

• Direct and Indirect narration

• Transformation of sentences including Active & Passive Voice

• Synonyms

• Antonyms

• Homonyms

• Rearranging the Jumbled sentences

• Fill in the blanks with appropriate Prepositions

• Idioms & phrases

• One word substitution

• Figures of speech

• Prefixes & Suffixes