UPKAR PRAKASHAN, AGRA-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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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... 11 Chapter 2 : The Age of Shakespeare The Age At a Glance... 12 Important Events of the Age... 13 Major Authors of the Age... 14 Important Works of the Major Authors... 14 Multiple-Choice Questions... 17 True or False Type Questions. 21 Matching-Type Questions... 21 Assertion-Reasoning Type Questions 22 Answers... 22 Chapter 3 : Jacobean to Restoration Period The Period At a Glance 23 Important Events of the Period... 23 Major Authors of the Period 24 Important Works of the Major Authors... 24

( vi ) Multiple-Choice Questions.. 27 True or False Type Questions 30 Matching-Type Questions... 31 Assertion-Reasoning Type Questions. 31 Answers... 32 Chapter 4 : The Augustan Age The Age At a Glance... 33 Important Events of the Age.. 35 Major Authors of the Age... 37 Important Works of the Major Authors... 38 Multiple-Choice Questions.. 40 True or False Type Questions 43 Matching-Type Questions... 44 Assertion-Reasoning Type Questions 44 Answers... 45 Chapter 5 : The Romantic Period The Age At a Glance... 46 Important Events of the Age... 47 Major Authors of the Age 49 Important Works of the Major Authors... 50 Multiple-Choice Questions.. 53 True or False Type Questions 57 Matching-Type Questions... 57 Assertion-Reasoning Type Questions 58 Answers... 58 Chapter 6 : The Victorian Period The Age At a Glance... 59 Important Events of the Age.. 60 Major Authors of the Age... 62 Important Works of the Major Authors... 62 Multiple-Choice Questions.. 66 True or False Type Questions 70 Matching-Type Questions... 71 Assertion-Reasoning Type Questions 71 Answers... 72

( 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... 85 Matching-Type Questions.. 86 Assertion-Reasoning Type Questions... 86 Answers.. 87 Chapter 8 : American, Indo-Anglian and Other Non-British Literatures (1) American Literature... 88 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.. 102 Answers.. 103 Chapter 10 : Rhetoric and Prosody Multiple-Choice Questions. 104 Answers.. 106 Now Test Yourself 107 132 Test Paper 1.. 107 Test Paper 2.. 112 Test Paper 3.. 117 Test Paper 4.. 122 Test Paper 5.. 128

( viii ) Part-II : Paper-III Section 1 Unseen Passages : Prose and Poetry 3 36 Prose Passages Passage 1.... 3 Passage 2.... 4 Passage 3.... 6 Passage 4.... 7 Passage 5.... 9 Passage 6.... 11 Passage 7.... 13 Passage 8.... 15 Passage 9.... 17 Passage 10. 19 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 10 35 Answers. 36 Section 2 Literary Ages 37 42 Multiple Choice Questions 39 Section 3 Literary Movements 43 49 Multiple Choice Questions 45

( ix ) Section 4 Poetry and Its Forms 51 68 Multiple Choice Questions 53 Section 5 Prose and Its Forms 69 87 Multiple Choice Questions on Prose and Its Forms.. 71 Multiple Choice Questions on Prose Romances and Novels 79 Section 6 Drama and Its Forms 89 108 Multiple Choice Questions 91 Section 7 Literary Criticism 109 117 Multiple Choice Questions 111 Section 8 Major Authors from Chaucer to the Present Day 119 176 Multiple Choice Questions on : 1. Chaucer 121 2. William Shakespeare 123 3. Edmund Spenser... 128 4. John Milton.. 130 5. John Dryden 134 6. William Wordsworth 136 7. S. T. Coleridge. 140 8. P. B. Shelley. 142 9. John Keats 145 10. Lord Byron.. 148 11. Charles Lamb.. 150 12. Charles Dickens 152 13. Alfred Lord Tennyson.. 154 14. Robert Browning. 157 15. Matthew Arnold... 160 16. Thomas Hardy.. 163

( x ) 17. D. H. Lawrence 165 18. W. B. Yeats.. 167 19. George Bernard Shaw... 169 20. T. S. Eliot. 172 Section 9 American, Greek and Latin Authors 177 188 American Authors Robert Frost (1874 1963).. 179 Walt Whitman (1819 1892)... 179 Ernest Hemingway (1898 1961).... 180 William Faulkner (1897 1962).. 181 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) 189 195 R.K. Narayan 191 Mulk Raj Anand 191 Kamla Dass.. 191 Nissim Ezekiel...... 192 Multiple-Choice Questions (on Indo-Anglian Authors) 192 Section 11 Rhetoric and Prosody and Figures of Speech 197 204 Multiple Choice Questions 199 Figures of Speech.. 201 Multiple Choice Questions 202 Model Test Papers 205 219 Test Paper 1 207 Test Paper 2 213

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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