Popularly known as LT Grade Examination (Mains)
by : Ruchi Agarwal
TO BE RELEASED SOON
The book is prepared under the constant encouragement and valuable suggestions of Dr. SUDHIR K. ARORA. It conatins more than 500 descriptive (Short and Long) Questions-Answers on: Literary Forms and Movements; Prescribed Authors and their Works; Colonial, Post Colonial, Post Modern and Indian English Literature; and English Language. The book is written in simple yet graceful language, with most answers well supported by relevant quotations from the texts.
The book also contains: Cross-Questions (involving multiple authors/ works), Revision Highlights, Try-It-Yourself Questions, Solved and Unsolved Model Papers
With descriptive type questions (short and long), the examination now demands not only factual knowledge but also clarity of understanding, critical thinking, and effective written expression. This book addresses that need in a systematic and practical manner.
The contents of the book aims to explain concepts clearly and to enable students to adapt answers to different question types. The book aims to bridge the gap between knowledge and presentation. It serves not merely as a source of information but as a training tool to improve analytical ability and answer-writing skills.
Dr. Ruchi Agarwal is an Assistant Professor of English at Sahu Ram Swaroop Mahila Mahavidyalaya in Bareilly. She is also the author of a number of books including— Cultural Conflict in the Plays of Eugene O’Neill, Readings into British and American Drama, Readings into Translation: Theory and Indian Literary Texts, Classical Foundations and the History of English Literature, Readings in Indian and New Literatures in English. Her works are known for their clarity and student-friendly approach.
Contents of the book include
Literary Forms,
Literary Movements and Figures of Speech
Literary Forms, Dramatic Forms, Prose Forms, Literary Movements, Figures of Speech
Authors and Their Works
Shakespeare and his Sonnet 29, Sonnet 138,
Macbeth, Twelfth Night and Merchant of Venice
Milton
and his On His Blindness and Paradise Lost
John
Donne and his The Canonization
Alexander Pope and his The Rape of the Lock
Thomas Gray and his Elegy written in a Country Churchyard
William Wordsworth and his Tintern Abbey and The World is Too Much with Us
P.B. Shelley and his Ode to The West Wind and To A Skylark
John Keats and his Ode on a Grecian Urn and
La Belle Dame sans Merci
Alfred Tennyson and his Break, Break, Break
and Ulysses
Robert Browning and his My Last Duchess and
Prospice
Matthew Arnold and his Dover Beach and
Memorial Verses
W.B. Yeats and his The Second Coming and
Sailing to Byzantium
T.S. Eliot and his The Waste Land
W.H. Auden and his In Memory of W.B. Yeats
Ted Hughes and his Crow Alights
Philip Larkin and his Wants
Walt Whitman and his O Captain! My Captain!
Emily Dickinson and her Success is Counted
Sweetest
Robert Frost and his Birches and Stopping by
Woods on a Snowy Evening
Rabindranath Tagore and his Gitanjali (11th Song) and Fruit Gathering (12th Song)
Nissim Ezikiel and his Night of the Scorpion and Philosophy
Kamala Das and her An Introduction
A.K. Ramanujan and his Obituary
Derek Walcott and his A Far Cry from Africa
Ben Jonson and his Every Man in His Humour
John Dryden and his All for Love
Bernard Shaw and his Arms and the Man
John Galsworthy and his Justice
Harold Pinter and his The Birthday Party
Eugene O’ Neill and his The Hairy Ape
Arthur Miller and his All My Sons
Girish Karnad and his Hayavadana
Bacon and his Of Studies and Of Truth
Joseph Addison and his Sir Roger at Home and
Will Wimble
Richard Steele and his The Spectator Club
Charles Lamb and his Dream Children
E.V. Lucas and his Tight Corners
A.G. Gardiner and his In Defence of Ignorance
Bertrand Russell and his The Road to
Happiness
Richard
Wright and his Twelve Million Black Voices
Mahatma Gandhi and his My Experiments with
Truth
Jawaharlal Nehru and his The Discovery of
India
Somerset Maugham and his The Luncheon
Anita Desai and her The Farewell Party
Katherine Mansfield and her The Fly
O’ Henry and his The Last Leaf
Henry Fielding and his Joseph Andrews
Jane Austen and her Pride and Prejudice
Charles Dickens and his Great Expectations
Thomas Hardy and his The Mayor of
Casterbridge
George Orwell and his Animal Farm
Virginia Woolf and her Mrs. Dalloway
William Golding and his Lord of the Flies
Nathaniel Hawthorne and his The Scarlet
Letter
Ernest Hemingway and his The Old Man and the
Sea
John Steinbeck and his The Grapes of Wrath
Raja Rao and his Kanthapura
R.K. Narayan and his The Bachelor of Arts
Kamala Markandaya and her Two Virgins
Chinua Achebe and his Things Fall Apart
Colonial, Post Colonial, Postmodern and Indian English Literature
Postmodern literature
Colonial literature
Post colonial literature
Indian Writings in English
Cross Questions
English Language
Punctuation,
Parts
of Speech
Spellings
Word Formation and Vocabulary
Tense
Narration
Conditional
Sentences
Concord
(Subject-Verb Agreement)
Phrasal
Verbs and Idiomatic Expressions
Transformation
and Synthesis
Letter
Writing
Dialogue
Writing
Model Question Paper (Solved)
Model Question Paper (Unsolved)
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