UPKAR PRAKASHAN, AGRA-2

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2 Based on Latest Pattern By DR. B.B. JAIN M.A., Ph. D. (Retd.) Professor and Head Department of English Studies and Research Agra College, Agra UPKAR PRAKASHAN, AGRA-2

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4 CONTENTS Previous Years Solved Papers Part-I : Paper-II Chapter 1 : The Period upto Chaucer The Age At a Glance 2 Important Events of the Age... 3 Major Authors of the Age 4 Important Works of the Major Authors... 4 Multiple-Choice Questions.. 6 True or False Type Questions. 9 Matching-Type Questions 10 Assertion-Reasoning Type Questions. 10 Answers Chapter 2 : The Age of Shakespeare The Age At a Glance Important Events of the Age Major Authors of the Age Important Works of the Major Authors Multiple-Choice Questions True or False Type Questions. 21 Matching-Type Questions Assertion-Reasoning Type Questions 22 Answers Chapter 3 : Jacobean to Restoration Period The Period At a Glance 23 Important Events of the Period Major Authors of the Period 24 Important Works of the Major Authors... 24

5 ( vi ) Multiple-Choice Questions.. 27 True or False Type Questions 30 Matching-Type Questions Assertion-Reasoning Type Questions. 31 Answers Chapter 4 : The Augustan Age The Age At a Glance Important Events of the Age.. 35 Major Authors of the Age Important Works of the Major Authors Multiple-Choice Questions.. 40 True or False Type Questions 43 Matching-Type Questions Assertion-Reasoning Type Questions 44 Answers Chapter 5 : The Romantic Period The Age At a Glance Important Events of the Age Major Authors of the Age 49 Important Works of the Major Authors Multiple-Choice Questions.. 53 True or False Type Questions 57 Matching-Type Questions Assertion-Reasoning Type Questions 58 Answers Chapter 6 : The Victorian Period The Age At a Glance Important Events of the Age.. 60 Major Authors of the Age Important Works of the Major Authors Multiple-Choice Questions.. 66 True or False Type Questions 70 Matching-Type Questions Assertion-Reasoning Type Questions 71 Answers... 72

6 ( vii ) Chapter 7 : The Modern Age The Age At a Glance.. 73 Important Events of the Age. 74 Major Authors of the Age.. 75 Important Works of the Major Authors.. 77 Multiple-Choice Questions. 82 True or False Type Questions Matching-Type Questions.. 86 Assertion-Reasoning Type Questions Answers.. 87 Chapter 8 : American, Indo-Anglian and Other Non-British Literatures (1) American Literature Multiple-Choice Questions 88 Answers.. 92 (2) Indo-Anglian Literature. 92 Multiple-Choice Questions. 92 Matching-Type Questions.. 95 Answers.. 95 (3) Greek, Latin and Other Non-British Literatures 96 Multiple-Choice Questions. 96 Matching-Type Questions.. 98 Answers.. 98 Chapter 9 : Literary Theory and Criticism Multiple-Choice Questions. 99 Matching-Type Questions Answers Chapter 10 : Rhetoric and Prosody Multiple-Choice Questions. 104 Answers Now Test Yourself Test Paper Test Paper Test Paper Test Paper Test Paper

7 ( viii ) Part-II : Paper-III Section 1 Unseen Passages : Prose and Poetry 3 36 Prose Passages Passage Passage Passage Passage Passage Passage Passage Passage Passage Passage Answers. 21 Poetry Passages Passage 1 21 Passage 2 23 Passage 3 25 Passage 4 27 Passage 5 29 Passage 6 30 Passage 7 31 Passage 8 33 Passage 9 34 Passage Answers. 36 Section 2 Literary Ages Multiple Choice Questions 39 Section 3 Literary Movements Multiple Choice Questions 45

8 ( ix ) Section 4 Poetry and Its Forms Multiple Choice Questions 53 Section 5 Prose and Its Forms Multiple Choice Questions on Prose and Its Forms.. 71 Multiple Choice Questions on Prose Romances and Novels 79 Section 6 Drama and Its Forms Multiple Choice Questions 91 Section 7 Literary Criticism Multiple Choice Questions 111 Section 8 Major Authors from Chaucer to the Present Day Multiple Choice Questions on : 1. Chaucer William Shakespeare Edmund Spenser John Milton John Dryden William Wordsworth S. T. Coleridge P. B. Shelley John Keats Lord Byron Charles Lamb Charles Dickens Alfred Lord Tennyson Robert Browning Matthew Arnold Thomas Hardy.. 163

9 ( x ) 17. D. H. Lawrence W. B. Yeats George Bernard Shaw T. S. Eliot. 172 Section 9 American, Greek and Latin Authors American Authors Robert Frost ( ) Walt Whitman ( ) Ernest Hemingway ( ) William Faulkner ( ) Multiple Choice Questions (on American Authors). 182 Greek, Latin and Other Non-British Literatures of Europe Multiple Choice Questions 186 Section 10 Indo-Anglian Authors (Their Important Works) R.K. Narayan 191 Mulk Raj Anand 191 Kamla Dass Nissim Ezekiel Multiple-Choice Questions (on Indo-Anglian Authors) 192 Section 11 Rhetoric and Prosody and Figures of Speech Multiple Choice Questions 199 Figures of Speech Multiple Choice Questions 202 Model Test Papers Test Paper Test Paper 2 213

10 Syllabus PAPER-II Paper II will cover 50 Objective Type Questions (Multiple Choice, Matching Type, True/False, Assertion Reasoning Type) carrying 100 marks. 1. Chaucer to Shakespeare 2. Jacobean to Restoration Periods 3. Augustan Age : 18th Century Literature 4. Romantic Period 5. Victorian Period 6. Modern Period 7. Contemporary Period 8. American and other non-british Literatures 9. Literary Theory and Criticism 10. Rhetoric and Prosody PAPER III (A) [CORE GROUP] 1. British Literature from Chaucer to the present day 2. Criticism and Literary Theory Unit I Literary Comprehension (with internal choice of poetry stanza and prose passage). Unit II Up to the Renaissance Unit III Jacobean to Restoration Periods Unit IV Augustan Age : 18th Century Literature Unit V Romantic Period Unit VI Victorian and Pre-Raphaelites Unit VII Modern British Literature Unit VIII Contemporary British Literature Unit IX Literary Theory and Criticism up to T. S. Eliot Unit X Contemporary Theory PAPER III (B) [ELECTIVE/OPTIONAL] Elective I History of English Language, English Language Teaching Elective II European Literature from Classical Age to the 20th Century Elective III Indian writing in English and Indian Literature in English translation Elective IV American and other non-british English Literatures Elective V Literary Theory and Criticism

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