বিষয়
: ইংরেজি
(English)
বিষয়
কোড
: ৪০২
পূর্ণমান-১০০
1. History
of English Literature: Candidates are required to have a general knowledge
of English Literature from Elizabethan period to Modern period i.e. Christopher
Marlowe to T.S. Eliot with special reference to the major movements and genres
during different period.
2. Literary terms: Epic, drama, novel, tragedy, comedy, tragi-comedy, short
story, romance, allegory, ode, ballad, lyric, pastoral poetry, dramatic
monologue, elegy, sonnet, mock-epic, satire, three unities, miracle and
morality plays, fable, interlude, soliloquy, poetic justice, parable.
3. Figures of Speech:
Simile, metaphor, image, irony, analogy, symbol, conceit,
wit, personification, hyperbol, paradox, epigram, climax, anti-climax.
4. Individual
Authors: Candidates are expected to be
familiar with the major works of the following authors - i. William
Shakespeare, ii. John Milton, iii. Jonathan Swift, iv. Alexander Pope, v.
Charles Dickens, vi. William Wordsworth, vii. S.T. Coleridge, viii. John Keats,
ix. P.B. Shelley, x. Byron, xi. E.M.Forster. xii. Bernard Shaw and xiii. T.S.
Eliot.
5. Formal letter,
letter to editors, complaint, request, job application
6. Summary
writing
7. Grammar
Any
two from the following terms: i.
Changing words from one parts of speech to another and making sentence with
them. ii. Synonyms and Antonyms and making sentences with them. iii. Completing
sentences.