LT Grade English Syllabus (Complete & Updated)

LT Grade English Syllabus (Complete & Updated)

1. History of English Literature

• Old English Period
• Middle English Period
• Renaissance & Elizabethan Age
• Jacobean, Caroline & Puritan Age
• Restoration & Augustan Age
• Romantic Age
• Victorian Age
• Modern Age
• Post-Modern Literature
• Major literary movements: Classicism, Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, Symbolism, Modernism

2. Literary Forms & Genres

(a) Poetry

• Epic, Lyric, Ballad, Sonnet, Ode, Elegy, Dramatic Monologue

(b) Drama

• Tragedy, Comedy, Tragicomedy, Problem Play, One-Act Play

(c) Prose & Fiction

• Novel: Types (Picaresque, Gothic, Historical, Domestic, Psychological)
• Short Story
• Essay: Types & Structure

(d) Literary Terms

• Allegory, Alliteration, Imagery, Symbol, Irony, Metaphor, Simile, Pun, Paradox, Oxymoron, Allusion

3. English Grammar

• Parts of Speech
• Tenses
• Articles & Determiners
• Voice (Active/Passive)
• Narration (Direct/Indirect)
• Modals & Auxiliaries
• Prepositions
• Subject-Verb Agreement
• Degree of Comparison
• Clauses & Sentence Structure
• Error Detection
• Transformation of Sentences

4. English Language Skills

• Comprehension Passages
• Precis Writing
• Paragraph Writing
• Letter Writing (Formal/Informal)
• Note Making
• Resume Writing
• Report Writing
• E-mail & Notice Writing

5. Major Works & Authors

(a) Poetry

• Geoffrey Chaucer
• John Milton
• William Shakespeare
• Alexander Pope
• William Wordsworth
• S.T. Coleridge
• P.B. Shelley
• John Keats
• T.S. Eliot
• W.B. Yeats

(b) Drama

• William Shakespeare
• G.B. Shaw
• Henrik Ibsen
• John Osborne

(c) Novelists

• Jane Austen
• Charles Dickens
• Thomas Hardy
• George Eliot
• D.H. Lawrence
• Virginia Woolf

(d) Indian English Literature

• R.K. Narayan
• Mulk Raj Anand
• Raja Rao
• Ruskin Bond
• Arundhati Roy
• Amitav Ghosh

6. Literary Criticism & Theory

• Plato, Aristotle, Longinus
• Wordsworth’s Preface
• T.S. Eliot (Objective Correlative & Tradition and Individual Talent)
• Formalism & New Criticism
• Structuralism, Post-Structuralism
• Feminism, Marxism, Psychoanalytic Theory

7. Teaching of English (Pedagogy)

• Aims of Teaching English
• Methods of Teaching: Grammar-Translation, Direct Method, Communicative Approach
• Evaluation & Testing
• Remedial Teaching
• Language Skills (Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing)

8. Research & Communication in English

• Research Types
• Research Tools
• Data Collection Methods
• Basics of Academic Writing
• Plagiarism & Citation Styles