UPKAR PRAKASHAN, AGRA-2

ByDR. B.B. JAIN

M.A., Ph. D.(Retd.) Professor and Head

Department of English Studies and ResearchAgra College, Agra

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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

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— 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………………………………………………………...……… 45Chapter 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

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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……………………………………………… 107–132Test Paper 1……………………………………………………..………… 107Test Paper 2…………………………………………………………..…… 112Test Paper 3…………………………………………………………..…… 117Test Paper 4…………………………………………………………..…… 122Test Paper 5…………………………………………………………..…… 128

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Part-II : Paper-III

Section 1Unseen Passages : Prose and Poetry 3–36

Prose PassagesPassage 1……………………………………...………………………………. 3Passage 2…………………………………...…………………………………. 4Passage 3…………………………………...…………………………………. 6Passage 4…………………………………...…………………………………. 7Passage 5…………………………………...…………………………………. 9Passage 6…………………………………...…………………………………. 11Passage 7…………………………………...…………………………………. 13Passage 8…………………………………...…………………………………. 15Passage 9…………………………………...…………………………………. 17Passage 10 …………………………………………………….……………… 19Answers…………………………………….………………………………… 21

Poetry PassagesPassage 1……………………………………………………………………… 21Passage 2……………………………………………………………………… 23Passage 3……………………………………………………………………… 25Passage 4……………………………………………………………………… 27Passage 5……………………………………………………………………… 29Passage 6……………………………………………………………………… 30Passage 7……………………………………………………………………… 31Passage 8……………………………………………………………………… 33Passage 9……………………………………………………………………… 34Passage 10 …………………………………………………………………… 35Answers……………………………………………….……………………… 36

Section 2Literary Ages 37–42

● Multiple Choice Questions ……………………………………………………… 39

Section 3Literary Movements 43–49

● Multiple Choice Questions ……………………………………………………… 45

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Section 4Poetry and Its Forms 51–68● Multiple Choice Questions ……………………………………………………… 53

Section 5Prose and Its Forms 69–87● Multiple Choice Questions on Prose and Its Forms ………………..…………… 71

● Multiple Choice Questions on Prose Romances and Novels …………………… 79

Section 6Drama and Its Forms 89–108● Multiple Choice Questions ……………………………………………………… 91

Section 7Literary Criticism 109–117● Multiple Choice Questions ……………………………………………………… 111

Section 8Major 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

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17. D. H. Lawrence …………………………………………………………… 165

18. W. B. Yeats ……………………..………………………………………… 167

19. George Bernard Shaw…………...………………………………………… 169

20. T. S. Eliot ……………………….………………………………………… 172

Section 9American, 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 10Indo-Anglian Authors (Their Important Works) 189–195R.K. Narayan ………………………………………………………………………… 191

Mulk Raj Anand……………………………………………………………………… 191

Kamla Dass ………………………………………………………………..………… 191

Nissim Ezekiel ………………………………………...…………………...………… 192

● Multiple-Choice Questions (on Indo-Anglian Authors) 192

Section 11Rhetoric and Prosody and Figures of Speech 197–204● Multiple Choice Questions ……………………………………………………… 199

➱ Figures of Speech……………………………..………………………………… 201● Multiple Choice Questions ……………………………………………………… 202

Model Test Papers 205–219Test Paper 1 ……………………………………………………………………… 207Test Paper 2 ……………………………………………………………………… 213

Syllabus

PAPER-IIPaper II will cover 50 Objective Type

Questions (Multiple Choice, MatchingType, True/False, Assertion–ReasoningType) carrying 100 marks.

1. Chaucer to Shakespeare2. Jacobean to Restoration Periods3. Augustan Age : 18th Century

Literature4. Romantic Period5. Victorian Period6. Modern Period7. Contemporary Period8. American and other non-British

Literatures9. Literary Theory and Criticism

10. Rhetoric and Prosody

PAPER–III (A)[CORE GROUP]

1. British Literature from Chaucer to thepresent day

2. Criticism and Literary Theory

Unit–ILiterary Comprehension (with internalchoice of poetry stanza and prosepassage).

Unit–IIUp to the Renaissance

Unit–IIIJacobean to Restoration Periods

Unit–IVAugustan Age : 18th Century Litera-ture

Unit–VRomantic Period

Unit–VIVictorian and Pre-Raphaelites

Unit–VIIModern British Literature

Unit–VIIIContemporary British Literature

Unit–IXLiterary Theory and Criticism up toT. S. Eliot

Unit–XContemporary Theory

PAPER–III (B)[ELECTIVE/OPTIONAL]

Elective–IHistory of English Language, EnglishLanguage Teaching

Elective–IIEuropean Literature from ClassicalAge to the 20th Century

Elective–IIIIndian writing in English and IndianLiterature in English translation

Elective–IVAmerican and other non-BritishEnglish Literatures

Elective–VLiterary Theory and Criticism

UGC NET/JRF/SLET English ( Paper-II &III)

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