18th NTRCA English College Written Syllabus

18th NTRCA English College Written Syllabus

1. History of English Literature: 10x2=20 Marks

Candidates are required to have a general knowledge of English Literature from Elizabethan period to Modern period i.e. Christopher Marlowe to T.S. Eliot with special reference to the major movements and genres during different period.  

2. Literary terms:  5x4=20 Marks

Epic, drama, novel, tragedy, comedy, tragi-comedy, short story, romance, allegory, ode, ballad, lyric, pastoral poetry, dramatic monologue, elegy, sonnet, mock-epic, satire, three unities, miracle and morality plays, fable, interlude, soliloquy, poetic justice, parable.

3. Figures of Speech:    2x5=10 Marks

 

Simile, metaphor, image, irony, analogy, symbol, conceit, wit, personification, hyperbol, paradox, epigram, climax, anti-climax. 

4. Individual Authors:  10x2=20 Marks

Candidates are expected to be familiar with the major works of the following authors - 

i. William Shakespeare, ii. John Milton, iii. Jonathan Swift, iv. Alexander Pope, v. Charles Dickens, vi. William Wordsworth, vii. S.T. Coleridge, viii. John Keats, ix. P.B. Shelley, x. Byron, xi. E.M.Forster. xii. Bernard Shaw and xiii. T.S. Eliot. 

5. Formal letter, letter to editors, complaint, request, job application  10 Marks

6. Summary writing: 10 Marks

7. Grammar: 10 Marks

 

Any two of the following terms:

i. Changing words from one parts of speech to another and making sentence with them. 

ii. Synonyms and Antonyms and making sentences with them. 

iii. Completing sentences.