UP GIC - English Syllabus, Short Note

 UP GIC (Government Inter College) Lecturer – English Syllabus

The English syllabus for UP GIC Lecturer recruitment conducted by the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission broadly covers English Literature, Literary Criticism, Indian Writing in English, and English Language & Grammar. 

1. British Literature (Authors & Works)

• Geoffrey Chaucer

• William Shakespeare

• John Milton

• John Dryden

• Alexander Pope

• William Wordsworth

• P. B. Shelley

• John Keats

• Alfred Tennyson

• Matthew Arnold

• Charles Dickens

• Thomas Hardy

• W. B. Yeats

• T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land

• George Bernard Shaw

• George Orwell 

2. Indian Writing in English

• Raja Rao

• Mulk Raj Anand

• Nissim Ezekiel

• Rabindranath Tagore

• Girish Karnad - Hayavadana

• V. S. Naipaul  - A House for Mr Biswas

• Kamala Das 

3. World Literature

• Robert Frost

• Ernest Hemingway

• Harold Pinter 

4. Literary Movements

• Renaissance

• Reformation

• Metaphysical Poetry

• Classicism

• Romanticism

• Pre-Raphaelite Movement

• Modernism

• Postmodernism

• Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature 

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5. Literary Forms & Terms

• Sonnet

• Ballad

• Elegy

• Mock Epic

• Ode

• Drama  The Four Humours in English Literature                                                                                            The Four Humours in English Literature in Hindi

• Novel

• Short Story

• Essay

• Literary Criticism

• Figures of Speech 

6. English Language & Grammar

• Reading Comprehension (Unseen Passage)

• Sentence Correction

• Direct and Indirect Narration

• Active and Passive Voice

• Transformation of Sentences

• Synonyms & Antonyms

• Homonyms

• Idioms and Phrases

• One-Word Substitution

• Rearrangement of Jumbled Sentences

• Fill in the Blanks (Prepositions)

• Prefixes and Suffixes

• Vocabulary Development 

7. Literary Criticism

• Major Critics and Critical Theories

• ( Major Critics and Critical Theories in Hindi)

• Practical Criticism

• Practical Criticism in Hindi 

• Appreciation of Poetry

• Appreciation of Poetry In Hindi

• Critical Approaches to Literature 

• Critical Approaches to Literature in Hindi

MOCK TEST

300 MCQs Literature