Rules of SSC Exam and Syllabi for English (Pass) & (Hons./PG)

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Now you have the syllabi for English (Pass) & (Hons./PG)
Syllabus for English (Pass)
Poetry
William Wordsworth : Lucy Poems; The world is too much with us
P.B. Shelley : Ode to the West Wind; To a Skylark
John Keats : Ode to a Nightingale; The Autumn
Alfred Tennyson : Ulysses
Robert Browning : The Last Ride Together
Thomas Hardy : The Darkling Thrush
W.B. Yeats : The Wild Swans at Coole
Wilfred Owen : Strange Meeting
Walter de la Mare : The Listeners
Drama
Goldsmith : She Stoops to Conquer
George Bernard Shaw : Arms and the Man
John. Galworthy : Justice
Short Story and Essay
A. Short Story
Joseph Conard : Lagoon
Somerest Maughan : The Lotos Eater
O. Henry : The Gift of the Magi
H. E. Bates : The Ox
B. Essay
Charles Lamb : Dream Children: A Reverie
L.A. Hill : Principles of Good Writing
Grammar and Usage
Common Errors
Number, Gender, Tense, Voice, Mood
Agreement of Verbs, Use of Articles and Prepositions
Sentence Forms
Simple, Compound, Complex, Relative Clauses
Joining and Splitting of Sentences
Narration
Direct Speech and Indirect Speech
Composition
A single paragraph of about 50-60 words to be written on a given topic

Syllabus for English (Hons./PG)
Poetry
Sidney : Loving in Truth
Spenser : One day I wrote her name
Shakespeare : Shall I compare thee….
John Donne : The Good Marrow
George Herbert : Virtue
Alexander Pope : The Rape of the Lock (Cantos I & II)
Blake : The Tyger; The Lamb
William Wordsworth : Tintern Abbey
Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Christabel; Kubla Khan
P. B. Shelley : Ode to the West Wind; to a Skylark
John Keats : Ode to a Nightingale; To Autumn
Alfred Tennyson : Ulysses
Robert Browing : My last Duchess
W.B. Yeats : The Wild Swans at Coole
Wilfred Owen : Strange Meeting
T.S. Eliot : Hollow Men
Drama
Shakespeare : Macbeth
Goldsmith : She Stoops to Conquer
George Bernard Shaw : Arms and the Man
J. M. Synge : Riders To the sea
Novel
Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice
Charles Dickens : David Copperfield
Short Story and Essay
A. Short Story
Joseph Conard : The Lagoon
James Joyce : Araby
Somerset Maugham : The Lotos Eater
Katherine Mansfield : The Fly
B. Essay
Charles Lamb : Dream Children: A Reverie;
The Superannuated Man
G.B. Shaw : Freedom
Francis Bacon : of Studies
Grammar and Usage
Common Errors
Subject Verb Agreement; Tenses; Active and Passive Voice, Articles, Prepositions,
Adverbs, Adjective
Sentence Forms
Simple Compound, Complex, Relative Clauses
Joining and Splitting of Sentences
Narration
Direct and Indirect
Composition
A single paragraph of about 50-60 words to be written on a given topic
Literary Devices:
Rhetoric and Prosody