by : Sudhir K. Arora
ISBN 978-93-91984-64-9
pp. : 312
(9 X 11.5 square inches, untrimmed)
Price: Rs. 425.00
Salient features:
Learning and Practising Approach
Offers an in-depth and accurate coverage of the entire syllabus
Layers of questions within questions
Innovative and insightful questions
List of Contents:
1. English Grammar
Parts of Speech, Tenses, Articles, Prepositions, Agreement and Transformation
2. English Usage
a. One Word Equivalents
b. Antonyms
c. Synonyms
d. Spotting Errors in Sentences
e. Figures of Speech
f. Unseen Passages for Comprehension
3. Literary Forms and Movements
(a) Renaissance, Metaphysical Poets, Neo-classical Age, Romanticism, Victorianism, Modernism, Avant-garde (b) Dramatic Irony, Climax, Chorus, Hamartia, Soliloquy, Aside, Conflict, Atmosphere, Catastrophe, Action, Plot (c)Ballad, Ode, Dramatic Monologue, Heroic Couplet, Lyric, Sonnet, Conceit, Elegy, Poetic Diction, Imagery, Allusion, Symbolism (d) Fiction, Picaresque Novel, RegionalNovel, Stream of Consciousness Technique, Caricature, Novella
4. Drama
a, b. Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Othello, Macbeth
c. G.B. Shaw: Arms and the Man
d. Girish Karnad: Tughlaq
e. J.M. Synge: Riders to the Sea
5. British Poetry
a. John Donne
b. Alexander Pope
c. William Wordsworth
d. John Keats
e. Alfred Tennyson
f. Robert Browning
g. T.S. Eliot
h. W.B. Yeats
6. American Poetry
a. Walt Whitman
b. Emily Dickinson
c. Robert Frost
d. Sylvia Plath
7. Indian English Poetry
a. Nissim Ezekiel
b. A.K. Ramanujan
c. Sarojini Naidu
d. Kamala Das
8. Fiction and Prose
a. Thomas Hardy: The Mayor of Casterbridge
b. Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist
c. Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway
d. Mulk Raj Anand: Untouchable
e. R.K. Narayan: The Guide
f. Francis Bacon: Of Studies, Of Truth
g. Joseph Addison: Sir Roger at Home, On the Whim of Lottery Adventure
h. Charles Lamb: Poor Relations, Dream Children: A Reverie
i. William Hazlitt: On the Ignorance of the Learned
j. Mahatma Gandhi: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
k. OTHER MAJOR PROSE WRITERS
A.G. Gardiner
Bertrand Russell
S. Radhakrishnan
Amitav Ghosh
Arundhati Roy
9. Indian Writing in Translation
a. Saadat Hasan Manto: Toba Tek Singh
b. Vijay Tendulkar: Silence! The Court is in Session
c. Premchand: Deliverance
d. Ismat Chugtai: Kallu
e. Mahasweta Devi: Mother of 1084
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Model/Practice Papers
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