A Handbook of Language and Literature in English for Competitive Examinations

SEVENTH EDITION (Sixth Edition updated with 2021 Examination Papers)

by

Sudhir K. Arora

ISBN 978-93-91984-26-7

pp. : 584

Price: Rs. 710.00

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Excerpts from Preface to the First Edition

…The book is particularly designed with a view to keeping the requirement of the candidates preparing for the P.G.T. / T.G.T. Recruitment Test. The whole syllabus has been covered so that the candidates may not feel the need of any other book. Examination papers have been incorporated in the objective questions and in the end, the previous year unsolved paper has been given for assessment. In every chapter, some facts have been given to enhance the candidates’ knowledge which will help them in answering the objective questions. …

Excerpts from Preface to the SIXTH Edition

…The book in your hand is an updated version. Its updated version was required because of the pattern of asking the tricky, puzzling and tough questions in the 2016 TGT & PGT Examination papers. This Handbook will make the aspirants familiar with such type of questions (newly designed in every chapter) which are provided in 10 Practice Papers and 2 Model Papers. Thus, it will keep the aspirants ahead and make them ready to face the unexpected and crack the examinations. I am sure that these 10 Practice Papers will not only test the aspirants’ knowledge but also boost their confidence at the high level. 

This Handbook is helpful for the PGT and the TGT aspirants but it is also equally useful for the aspirants appearing at the various examinations like NET, Ph. D. & M. Phil. entrance. The knowledge-packed Literary Terms and Forms, Figures, Biblical and Mythical Allusions, Basic Facts of English Literature, Awards, Known For, Known As and much more are its special features which make it ready reckoner in English literature. The table on “Shakespeare’s Plays” that contains genre, setting, popular lines and sources will become a guide for the aspirants for ready reference. A table, titled, “Authors at Glance” having name, birth, place of birth, death, father, mother, wife, beloved, popular works, awards and the critical books will prove to be a vade mecum for them. The capsule summaries will acquaint the aspirants with the major works of the major authors. Hence, it will prove to be a compact guide for the aspirants for the quick revision. …

Contents include:

PART ONE:  LANGUAGE

Unseen Passages for Comprehension

General Grammar (Parts of speech, Tense, Preposition, Agreement, Transformation)

Spellings

Punctuation

Narration

Synonyms

Antonyms

One Word Equivalents

Foreign Expressions

Idioms and Phrases

Proverbs

Sentence Completion

Numbered Blanks

Sentence Arrangement

Miscellaneous Questions on Grammar

                    

PART TWO: LITERATURE 

Literary Forms and Terms

Figures of Speech

Mythological and Biblical Allusions

English Literature: Some Basic Facts

Authors and Their Works: 

William Shakespeare

William Wordsworth

John Keats

Charles Lamb

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Charles Dickens

Matthew Arnold

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Stearns Eliot

Kamala Das

Mulk Raj Anand

Nissim Ezekiel

Robert Lee Frost

Walt Whitman

Ernest Hemingway

William Faulkner

John Milton

John Galsworthy

A Quick Revision of Authors

Literary Awards and Winners

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Practice Papers

Model Papers

Examination Paper (PGT)

Examination Paper (TGT)