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TEACHERS’ RECRUITMENT BOARD, TRIPURA (TRBT)

EDUCATION (SCHOOL) DEPARTMENT, GOVT. OF TRIPURA
SYLLABUS: ENGLISH (MCQs OF 150 MARKS)
SELECTION TEST FOR POST GRADUATE TEACHER(STPGT): 2016

1. POETRY
 Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day – William Shakespeare
 Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds – William Shakespeare
 To His Coy Mistress – Andrew Marvell
 Good Morrow – John Donne
 The Rape of the Lock – Alexander Pope
 Tintern Abbey – William Wordsworth
 Lucy Gray – William Wordsworth
 Christabel – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 Ode to a Nightingale – John Keats
 Ode to The West Wind – P.B. Shelley
 Crossing the Bar – Lord Tennyson
 The Last Ride Together – Robert Browning
 The Lake Isle of Innisfree – W. B. Yeats
 Strange Meeting – Wilfred Owen
 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock – T.S. Eliot
 The Bangle sellers – Sarojini Naidu
 Gitanjali No.50 – Rabindranath Tagore
 An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum – Stephen Spender.

2. DRAMA
 Macbeth – William Shakespeare
 Midsummer’s Night Dream – William Shakespeare
 Arms & The Man – G. B. Shaw
 Riders to The Sea – J. M. Synge
 Justice – John Galsworthy

3. NOVEL
 Pride & Prejudice – Jane Austin
 Mayor of Caster Bridge – Thomas Hardy
 Ignited Minds – Abdul Kalam

4. SHORT STORY
 After Twenty Years – O. Henry
 The Rocking Horse Winner – D. H. Lawrence
 The Night Train at Deoli – Ruskin Bond
 The Fly – Katherine Mansfield

5. LITERARY ESSAYS
 Freedom – G. B. Shaw
 Of Studies – Francis Bacon
 The Superannuated Man – Charles Lamb
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 Letters from a Father to His Daughter – J. Nehru

6. GRAMMAR
 Tense
 Voice Change
 Phrases and Idioms
 Transformation Of Sentences
 Joining and Splitting
 Narration
 Clauses
 Error Findings (Subject-Verb Concord, Determiners, Preposition, Verb Forms, and Modals)

7. HISTORY OF LITERARY MASTERS

 Life and Works Of Wordsworth, Shelley, Browning, T.S. Eliot and W.B. Yeats
 Shakespeare and His Dramatic and Poetic Works

8. RHETORIC AND PROSODY

 Rhetoric
 Prosody
 Diction (Antonyms and Synonyms)

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