Popularly known as LT Grade Examination
THIRD REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION
by
Sudhir K. Arora, Dakshta Arora
ISBN 978-93-91984-73-1
pp. : 624
(9 X 11.5 square inches, untrimmed)
Price: Rs. 725.00
Salient features:
Complete coverage of the entire syllabus.
Detailed introduction to prescribed literary forms, terms, authors, and works.
Comprehensive rules of grammar with special tips for accuracy.
Full text of shorter poems and prose pieces, along with important excerpts from prescribed dramas and novels.
Themes/stories/summaries of all prescribed works.
Comprehensive list of major characters.
Over 4,000 high-quality objective questions covering every aspect of the syllabus.
Two well-structured model papers for practice.
Solved previous examination paper for reference.
Ready reckoner of authors for quick revision.
Selected quotes and key terms from prescribed poems.
List of Contents :
SECTION ONE: ENGLISH LANGUAGE
1. Unseen Passage for Comprehension
2. English Grammar (Parts of speech, Tenses, Articles, Prepositions,
Conditional Sentences, Concord, Transformation and Synthesis)
3. Spellings
4. Punctuation
5. Narration
6. Synonym
7. Antonyms
8. One Word Equivalents
9. Foreign Expressions
10. Idioms and Phrases
11. Proverbs
12. Sentence Completion
13. Numbered Blanks
14. Sentence Arrangement
15. Miscellaneous Questions on Grammar
16. Translation from English to Hindi and Hindi to English
17. Letter Writing and Dialogue Writing
SECTION TWO: LITERATURES IN ENGLISH
Literary Forms and Movements:
18. Literary Forms and Movements
19. Understanding and Identification of Figures of Speech
20. English Literature: Some Basic Facts
21. William Shakespeare
(Sonnet no. 29, Sonnet 138, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Merchant of Venice)
Poetry:
22. John Milton
(“On His Blindness” and Paradise Lost bk 1, from line 1 to 26)
23. John Donne (“Canonization”)
24. Alexander Pope (The Rape of the Lock, Canto I)
25. Thomas Gray (“Elegy written in a Country Churchyard”)
26. William Wordsworth
(“Tintern Abbey”, “The World is too much with us”)
27. Percy Bysshe Shelley (“Ode to the West wind”, “To a Skylark”)
28. John Keats (“Ode on a Grecian Urn”, “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”)
29. Alfred Tennyson (“Break, Break, Break”, “Ulysses”)
30. Robert Browning (“My Last Duchess”, “Prospice”)
31. Matthew Arnold (“Dover Beach”, “Memorial Verses)
32. William Butler Yeats (“The Second Coming”, “Sailing to Byzantium”)
33. Thomas Stearns Eliot (The Waste Land)
34. Wystan Hugh Auden (“In Memory of W.B. Yeats”)
35. Ted Hughes (“Crow Alights”)
36. Philip Larkin (“Wants”)
37. Walt Whitman (“O Captain! My Captain!”)
38. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (“Success is Counted Sweetest”)
39. Robert Lee Frost (“Birches”, “Stopping by the Woods”)
40. Rabindranath Tagore (Gitanjali 11th song, Fruit Gathering 12th song)
41. Nissim Ezekiel (“Night of the Scorpion”, “Philosophy”)
42. Kamala Das (“An Introduction”)
43. Attipat Krishnaswamy Ramanujan (“Obituary”)
44. Derek Walcott (“A Far Cry from Africa”)
Drama:
45. Ben Jonson (Every Man in His Humour)
46. John Dryden (All for Love)
47. George Bernard Shaw (Arms and the Man)
48. John Galsworthy (Justice)
49. Harold Pinter (The Birthday Party)
50. Eugene Gladstone O’ Neill (The Hairy Ape)
51. Arthur Miller (All My Sons)
52. Girish Raghunath Karnad (Hayavadana)
Prose and Fiction:
53. Francis Bacon (“Of Studies”, “Of Truth”)
54. Joseph Addison (“Sir Roger at Home”, “Will Wimble”)
55. Richard Steele (“The Spectator Club”)
56. Charles Lamb (“Dream Children”)
57. Edward Verrall Lucas (“Tight Corners”)
58. Alfred George Gardiner (“In Defence of Ignorance”)
59. Bertrand Russell (“The Road to Happiness”)
60. Richard Wright (“Twelve Million Black Voices”)
61. Mahatma Gandhi (My Experiments with Truth)
62. Jawaharlal Nehru (The Discovery of India)
63. William Somerset Maugham (“The Luncheon”)
64. Anita Desai (“The Farewell Party”)
65. Katherine Mansfield (“The Fly”)
66. O’ Henry (“The Last Leaf”)
67. Henry Fielding (Joseph Andrews)
68. Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)
69. Charles Dickens (Great Expectations)
70. Thomas Hardy (The Mayor of Casterbridge)
71. George Orwell (Animal Farm)
72. Virginia Woolf (Mrs. Dalloway)
73. William Golding (Lord of the Flies)
74. Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter)
75. Ernest Hemingway (The Old Man and the Sea)
76. John Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath)
77. Raja Rao (Kanthapura)
78. R.K. Narayan (The Bachelor of Arts)
79. Kamala Markandaya (Two Virgins)
80. Chinua Achebe (Things Fall Apart)
81. Postmodern Literature
82. Colonial Literature
83. Postcolonial Literature
84. Indian Writings in English
Ready Reckoner of Authors
Quotes and Keywords from Poems
Your Memory: Your Strength
Some Common Confusions
Model/Practice Paper 1
Model/Practice Paper 2
Question Paper 2018
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