Complete Guide to SLST English (IX-X)

English (Graduate)

Poetry

l William Wordsworth: Lucy Poems; The world is too much with us

l P B Shelley: Ode to the West Wind; To a Skylark

l Alfred Tennyson: Ode to a Nightingale; The Autumn Ulysses

l Robert Browning: The Last Ride Together

l Thomas Hardy: The Darkling Thrush

l W B Yeats: The Wild Swans at Coole

l Wilfred Owen: Strange Meeting

l Walter de la Mare: The Listeners

Drama

l Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer

l George Bernard Shaw: Arms and the Man

l John. Galworthy: Justice

Short Story 

l Joseph Conard: Lagoon

l Somerset Maugham: The Lotos Eater

l O Henry: The Gift of the Magi

l H E Bates: The Ox

 Essay

l Charles Lamb: Dream Children: A Reverie

l L A Hill: Principles of Good Writing

Grammar and Usage

l Common Errors

l Number, Gender, Tense, Voice, Mood

l Agreement of Verbs, Use of Articles and Prepositions

l Sentence Forms

l Simple, Compound, Complex, Relative Clauses

l Joining and Splitting of Sentences

l Narration

l Direct Speech and Indirect Speech

l Composition

l A single paragraph of about 50-60 words to be written on a given topic