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Polytechnic TRB (English) Complete Material Overview
Unit I: Chaucer to Shakespeare
S.No | Title | P.No |
01 | Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Book of the Duchess | 10 |
02 | Edmund Spencer’s Epithalamion | 29 |
03 | William Shakespeare’s Sonnets (8, 15, 24, 30, 37, 40, 46, 76, 82, 91, 112, 116, 126, 140, 144, 147, 154) | 48 |
04 | Francis Bacon’s EssaysF Of OxfordF Of NobilityF Of TravelF Of FriendshipF Of Love | 72 |
05 | Ben Jonson’s Volpone or the Fox | 111 |
06 | Christopher Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus | 142 |
07 | Sir Thomas More’s Utopia | 167 |
08 | John Webster’s The White Devil | 191 |
09 | William Langland’s Piers the plowman | 223 |
10 | William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors | 237 |
11 | William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream | 256 |
12 | William Shakespeare’s Hamlet | 277 |
13 | William Shakespeare’s Henry VIII | 308 |
14 | William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour Lost | 342 |
Unit II – Jacobean to Augustan age
S.No | Title | P.No |
01 | John Milton’s Paradise Regained | 03 |
02 | John Dryden’s All for Love | 27 |
03 | Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock | 43 |
04 | Andrew Marvell’s Garden | 64 |
05 | Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | 77 |
06 | Jonathan Swift’s A Tale of a Tub | 98 |
07 | Addison and Steele’s The Spectators and the Coverley Papers. (Essays 1-10) | 117 |
08 | Oliver Goldsmith’s The Deserted village | 153 |
09 | Henry Fielding’s Joseph Andrews | 170 |
10 | Samuel Daniel’s Christ Victoric Triumph | 224 |
11 | Sir Thomas Brown’s The Garden of Cyrus | 227 |
12 | William Blake’s Songs of Experience | 237 |
13 | Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe | 269 |
14 | Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels | 295 |
15 | Henry Vaughan’s Regeneration | 335 |
Unit III – Romantic Period
S.No | Title | P. No |
01 | William Worsworth’s The Daffodils, The Solitary Reaper | 3 |
02 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads,Biographia Literaria | 18 |
03 | P.B.Shelley’s Ode to the west wind | 35 |
04 | John Keats’s Ode to Autumn | 49 |
05 | Charles Lamb’s The Essays of Elia(1) Oxford in the Vacation(2) New Year’s Eve(3) Dream Children: A Reverie(4) The Price of Chimney-sweeper(5) My Relations | 60 |
06 | Byron’s Prometheus | 114 |
07 | Jane Austen’s Emma | 125 |
08 | Walter Scott’s The Talisman | 155 |
09 | William Hazlitt’s Characters of Shakespeare’s plays | 168 |
10 | Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights | 211 |
Unit IV – Victorian Age
S. No | Title | P. No |
01 | Alfred Lord Tennyson’s The Princess: A Medley | 3 |
02 | Robert Browning :F Men and WomenF Andrea Del Sarto | 24 |
03 | Mathew Arnold :F Rugby ChapelF Dover Beach | 52 |
04 | D.G. Rossetti’s The Blessed Damozel | 78 |
05 | George Eliot’s Romola | 95 |
06 | W.M. Thackeray’s Vanity Fair | 108 |
07 | R.L. Stevenson’s Treasure Island | 155 |
08 | John Ruskin’s Sesame and Lilies | 186 |
09 | Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities | 205 |
Unit V: Modern and Contemporary Periods
S.No | Title | P. No |
01 | W.B.Yeats’s Sailing to Byzantium | 3 |
02 | Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders | 15 |
03 | Virginia Woolf’s Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Brown | 34 |
04 | A.L.Huxley’s Time Must Have a Stop | 65 |
05 | E.M.Forster’s Where Angels Fear to Tread | 77 |
06 | T.S.Eliot’s Murder in Cathedral | 101 |
07 | C.P.Snow’s Corridors of Power | 132 |
08 | G.B. Shaw’s The Devil’s Disciple | 145 |
09 | Ezra Pound’s The Pisan Cantos | 158 |
10 | Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest | 171 |
Unit VI – American Literature
S. No | Title | P. No |
01 | Whitman’s When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d | 03 |
02 | H.W. Longfellow’s The May Queen | 21 |
03 | Edgar Allan Poe:3.1 The Haunted Palace3.2 My Mother3.3 The Lake | 26 |
04 | Emily Dickinson :4.1 A Something in a Summer’s Day4.2 Bless God, He Went as Soldier’s4.3 How Happy is the Little Stone4.4 This is My Letter to The World. | 42 |
05 | Robert Frost’s Blue Berries | 57 |
06 | Wallace Stevens’s The Snow Man | 69 |
07 | Emerson’s The American Scholar | 80 |
08 | Henry James’s The Lesson of the Master | 98 |
09 | O’Neill’s The Great God Brown | 110 |
10 | Hawthorne’s A House of the Seven Gables | 129 |
11 | Edward Albee’s The American Dream | 164 |
12 | Alice Walker’s By the Light of My Father’s Smile | 187 |
13 | Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | 197 |
14 | Earnest Hemingway’s The Old Man and The Sea | 241 |
Unit VII: Indian and English Literature
S.No | Title | P.No |
01 | Nissin Ezekiel : Night of the Scorpion | 03 |
02 | A.K. Ramanujan : A River | 11 |
03 | R. Parthasarathy : Lines for a Photograph | 19 |
04 | Toru Dutt : Our Casuarina Tree | 24 |
05 | Sarojini Naidu : The Soul’s Prayer | 33 |
06 | Anita Desai : Where shall we go for this summer? | 42 |
07 | Badal Surcar : Evam Indrajit | 53 |
08 | Sri Aurobindo : Rose of God. | 72 |
09 | Arundhati Roy : The God of Small Things | 83 |
10 | Mulk Raj Anand : Untouchable | 99 |
11 | Deshpande : The Dark Holds No Terror | 138 |
12 | Kirish karnard : Tugulaq | 159 |
Unit – VIII English Language and Linguistics
S.No | Title | P.No |
Language | ||
01 | Family of Indo-European Languages | 03 |
02 | Characteristics of the Germanic Language | 07 |
03 | Old English | 10 |
04 | Middle English | 12 |
05 | Modern English | 14 |
06 | Standard English | 16 |
07 | Growth of Vocabulary | 19 |
08 | Change of Meaning | 25 |
Linguistics | ||
09 | Morphology | 30 |
10 | Affixes | 36 |
11 | Phonology | 39 |
12 | Minimal Pair | 60 |
13 | Perspectives of Linguistics | 63 |
14 | Historical Linguistics | 72 |
15 | Sociolinguistics | 77 |
16 | Neurolinguistics | 82 |
17 | Semantics | 88 |
18 | Pragmatics | 94 |
19 | Dialects | 96 |
20 | Lingua Franca | 99 |
21 | Jargon | 102 |
22 | Structural Linguistics | 105 |
23 | Phrase and Structure | 110 |
24 | Transformational Generative Grammar | 114 |
25 | Acronyms | 116 |
26 | Theories of Language Acquisition | 117 |
27 | Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing (LSRW) | 120 |
28 | Dichotic Listening | 124 |
29 | Methods of Teaching | 129 |
30 | Linguistic Terms | 132 |
IX – Criticism and Literary Theories
S.No | Title | P.No |
01 | Plato’s Republic | 03 |
02 | Francis Bacon’s The Advancement of Learning | 34 |
03 | Samuel Johnson3.1 On Fiction3.2 Preface to Shakespeare | 63 |
04 | Mathew Arnold’s The Function of Criticism at the Present Time | 99 |
05 | I. A. Richards:5.1 Practical Criticism5.2 Principles of Literary Criticism | 118 |
06 | Northrop Frye’s The Critical Path | 139 |
07 | T.S.Eliot’s Hamlet and His Problems | 149 |
08 | Rene Wellek’s Concepts of Criticism | 163 |
09 | Aristotle’s Poetics | 169 |
10 | Ezra Pound’s The ABC of Reading | 199 |
11 | Wayne C. Booth’s The Rhetoric of Fiction | 205 |
12 | Empson’s Seven Types of Ambiguity | 228 |
S.No | Title | P.No |
01 | Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing | 03 |
02 | Margaret Laurence’s The Fire Dwellers | 19 |
03 | P.K.Page’s Adolescence | 32 |
04 | Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God | 42 |
05 | Wole Soyinka’s A Dance of the Forests | 53 |
06 | Wilfred Campbell’s The Winter Lakes | 64 |
07 | A.G.Smith’s The White House | 72 |
08 | Ondaatje’s There’s a Trick with a Knife I’m Learning to do | 76 |
09 | George Ryga :9.1 Portrait of Angelica9.2 In the Shadow of the Vulture | 85 |
10 | Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea | 92 |
11 | Moliere’s The Comic Pastoral | 106 |
12 | Sir Thomas More’s The Four Last Things | 113 |
Unit XI – General Knowledge
S.No | Title | P.No |
01 | History of Tamil Nadu | 03 |
02 | Indian History | 25 |
03 | Indian Contitution | 71 |
04 | Indian Economics | 105 |
05 | Geography | 124 |
06 | World Grganizations | 140 |
07 | General Science | 147 |
08 | Personalities | 165 |
09 | Sports and Games | 183 |
10 | Currrent Affairs | 205 |
General Material
S.No | Title | P.No |
01 | History of English Literature – Timeline | 04 |
02 | List of Poet Laureate | 06 |
03 | Buried in West Minister Abbey | 06 |
04 | List of Nobel Laureates | 06 |
05 | List of Booker Prize Winners | 07 |
06 | List of Sahitya Academy Award Winners | 07 |
07 | List of Pulitzer Prize Winners | 07 |
08 | List of Founders and Fathers | 08 |
09 | List of literary movements | 11 |
KEY ANSWERS | ||
Unit No | Title | P. No |
I | Chaucer to Shakespeare | 15 |
II | Jacobean to Augustan age | 30 |
III | Romantic Period | 46 |
IV | Victorian age | 57 |
V | Modern and Contemporary Periods | 67 |
VI | American Literature | 78 |
VII | Indian and English Literature: | 93 |
VIII | Language and Linguistics | 106 |
IX | Criticism and Literary Theories | 114 |
X | Post Colonial Literature and European Literature | 127 |
UNIT TEST & MODEL TEST | ||
S. No | Title | P. No |
01 | Unit Test No – 1 | 140 |
02 | Unit Test No – 2 | 148 |
03 | Unit Test No – 3 | 156 |
04 | Unit Test No – 4 | 164 |
05 | Unit Test No – 5 | 172 |
06 | Unit Test No – 6 | 180 |
07 | Unit Test No – 7 | 188 |
08 | Unit Test No – 8 | 196 |
09 | Unit Test No – 9 | 204 |
10 | Unit Test No -10 | 212 |
11 | Unit Test No -11 | 220 |
12 | Unit Test – Key Answers | 228 |
13 | Model Test – 1 | 234 |
14 | Model Test – 2 | 259 |
15 | Model Test – Key Answers | 284 |
16 | Polytechnic TRB 2017 – Question Paper | 286 |
17 | Polytechnic TRB 2017 – Key Answer | 311 |