(Syllabus) Ed.CET-2011 Entrance Test "English Methodology" Syllabus

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Ed.CET-2011 Entrance Test Syllabus
English Methodology (Marks: 100)

English Methodology Syllabus:

A) Language Skills (Marks: 50)

  • Language functions
  • Elements of phonetics
  • Grammar
  • Phrasal Verbs (idioms)
  • Writing Skills
  • Study Skills
  • Reference Skills
  • Vocabulary
  • Punctuations
    (Questions to be set other than as in Part A General English.) (Marks: 50)

B) Syllabus prescribed for Optional English at B.A. Degree level (B.A., ML / Special English) 50 Questions (50 Marks).

(1) Language and Literature:

  • (a) Brief Survey of the English Language : Standardization : Word - formation, foreign influences (Latin, French, Scandinavian); Semantic Changes (relevant chapters from the Outline History of the English Language by F.T. Wood)
  • (b) Understanding / Comprehension
    (i) of a literacy prose passage
    (ii) of a poem

(2) Forms of poetry: evolution, kinds and variations:

  • Sonnet: Wordworth "Scorn not the Sonnet".
  • Ode: Shelley "Ode to the West Wind"
  • Elegy: Gray "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
  • Balled: Yeats "The Balled of Father Giligen"
  • Lyric: Robert Burns "A Red, Red Rose"
  • Dramatic: Browing "My Last Duches Monologue

(3) Element of Drama :

  • Plot/Structure: Farrell Mitchell "The Best Laid Plans"
  • Character: J.B. Priestly "Mother's Day"
  • Dialogue: Anton Chekov "The Marriage Proposal"

(4) Elements of Fiction :

  • Point of View: Khushwant Singh "The Interview"
  • Setting/Atmosphere: Edgar Allen Poe "The Tell-Talc Heart"
  • Style/Narrative: O Henry "The Gift of the Magi" Techniques

(5) A. Poetry from the Elizabethan age to the Pre-Romantic

  • B. Spenser: Sonnet "One Day I Wrote Her Name"
  • Milton: "L'allegro"
  • Donne: "The Canonization"
  • Pope: Extract from "The Rape of the Lock" (Cantos I & II)
  • Blake: "The School Boy"

(6) A. Development of drama : 16th and 17th Century British Drama
B. Shakespeare : : Othello

(7) Prose : Origin and Development of the Essay; kinds

B. Bacon : : "Of Youth and Age"
Steele :: "One Judicious Flattery"
Lamb : : "Dream Children"
Chesterton : : "On Lying in Bed"

(8) A. Fiction: Origin and Development of the Novel

B. Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
Indian Writing in English - Indian English Literature

(9) Origin and growth of Indian English Literature.

(10) Poetry for detailed study.

  1. Sri Aurobindo - Though The Paraclete
  2. Toru Dutt - Sita
  3. Nissim Ezekiel - Very Indian Poem in Indian English
  4. A.K. Ramanjuan - The Hindoo: he reads his GITA and is calm at all events.
  5. K.N. Daruwalla - The Epileptic
  6. Gouri Desh Pande - The female of the Species

(11) DRAMA for detail led study
Girish Karnard : Naga Mandala

(12) FICTION
Kushwant Singh ; Train to Pakistan.

(13) American English Language and Literature :
The English language in America

(14) Poetry for detailed study

  1. Wallace Stevens : Of Modern Poetry
  2. Dickenson : "Hope" is Thing with Feathers
  3. Emily Robert Frost: Stopping By woods on a snowy Eveninj
  4. Robinson Jeffers : Science
  5. Archibald Macleish : "Not Marble Nor The Gilded "Monuments" For Adcle.
  6. William Carlos Williams ; The Yachts.

(15) DRAMA for detailed study
Eugene O 'Neill : The Hairy Ape.

(16) PROSE
Theoreau: Walden

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Courtesy: edcet2011.com



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