BCS Syllabus Analysis
BCS Syllabus Analysis
BCS Syllabus Analysis
ENGLISH LITERATURE
FOR JOB SEEKERS
CADRES’ PRELIMINARY GUIDELINE
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Major figures Old & middle english chaucer
Literary Figures A Brief Glimpse into The First Master of
from English and Two Literary Periods English Literature
around the World
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Analysis 101
Analyzing Syllabus & Question Pattern
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Types of Questions
About literary figures
Biography:
Who was both a poet and a painter? (43rd)
Who is not an Irish writer? (43rd)
William Shakespeare was born in ___? (40th)
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Types of Questions
About Literary Works
Genres
No Second Troy is a--- ? (43rd)
Which one is a Tragicomedy? (36th)
Characters:
The Character ‘Alfred Doolittle’ is from Shaw’s play titled- (41st)
Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, Hamlet was prince of –(41st)
Types of Questions
For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.”
QUOtation This line is written by – (38th)
“Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide,k wide sea ……”
is from which poem? (38th)
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Different Periods of
02 english literature
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Periods in detail
Old English Period
450–1066 No Sub-Periods
(Anglo-Saxon Period)
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elIzabethan CAROLINE
The 1660-1700:
Restoration Period
Neo-Classical
Period 1700-1745:
Augustan Period
1660 - 1798
1745-1798:
Age of Sensibility
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Victorian
Romantic Period
period
1832 – 1901;
1798 – 1832; No Sub-Period
No Sub-Period
The
Post-Modern 1939 - Ongoing
Period
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Be careful
British
British american
nationality
irish Anglo - indian
Poet? Novelist?
What type?
Essayist? Playwright?
British Writers
Charles Dickens, D. H. Lawrence, Doris
Novelist
Lessing, Emily Bronte
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Famous Authors :
Caedmon
First known poet of English Literature
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Venerable Bede
Father of English Learning.
First Historian of English Language.
Work: Ecclesiastical History of the English People
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▪ Collection of 24 Stories,
▪ 17000 Lines,
▪ 32 Characters.
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Famous Authors
2) John Wycliff
• Morning Star of Reformation
• First Prose Writer in English
• First Bible Translator in English
John Wycliff
• Morning Star of Reformation
• First Prose Writer in English
• First Bible Translator in English
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Caedmon
Major Works:
➢ Caedmon’s Hymns
Cynewulf
Major Works:
➢ Juliana,
➢ Elene,
➢ Christ II
Major Works:
➢ On Genesis
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Geoffrey Chaucer (1343 – 1400)
➢ The first poet to be buried (mgvwnZ Kiv) in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey
Major Works:
(1332- 1386)
The Pearl Poet Anonymous poet, Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight
known for some famous Patience
dream vision poems Cleanness
Pearl
John Gower Middle English Poet The Tale of Seven Deadly
Sins
(1330-1408)
Confessio Amantis
John Wycliffe Philosopher, Theologian, On the Truth of Holy
Biblical translator Scripture
(1320-1384)
Translated Bible in the
vernacular