Syllabus for Entrance Test for Ph.D. Admission

Department of English

• Chaucer to Shakespeare

• American and other non-British Literatures

• British Literature from 14th to 20th Century

• Indian Writing in English

• Jacobean to Restoration Periods

• Literary Theory and Criticism

• Non-British English Literatures

• Pragmatics

• Rhetoric and Prosody

• Modern Period

• Semiotics / Semiology

• Stylistics

• Received Pronunciation-

• Vowels- Consonants –

• Diphthongs- Stress- Consonant Cluster-

• Syllable Structures- Assimilation- Elision-

• Teaching of English (Methods & Approach)

• Role of Grammar in ELT,

• Evaluation of Techniques,

• Teaching the Four Language Skills