LT Grade Assistant Teacher – English Literature 2022-2023

UPPSC UP LT Grade English Syllabus

Section 1 – English Language

A.Unseen prose and poetry passages for language comprehension and appreciation

B. Grammar: Punctuation, parts of speech, spellings, word formation and vocabulary, tense,

Narration, Conditional sentences, Concord, Phrasal verbs and idiomatic expressions, transformation

and synthesis

C. Translation from English to Hindi and Hindi to English

D. Letter writing and dialogue writing

Section 2 – Literatures in English

A. Literary Forms and Movements with special reference to allegory, ballad, ode, sonnet, blank

verse, epic, mock-epic, heroic couplet, lyric, elegy arid other stanza forms, dramatic monologue,

free verse and rhyme metre, Dramatic forms like tragedy, comedy, tragic- comedy, romance end

One-act plays, Biography, autobiography, memoir and travel writing, Fictional forms, Different

types of essays, Renaissance and Reformation, Neo-classicism, Metaphysical Poets, Romanticism,

Pre-RaphaeIites, Modernism, Impressionism, Expressionism and Surrealism understanding and

identification figures of speech.

B. Poetry: Trends and movements in poetry in English with special reference to the

following: Shakespeare’s sonnets (Sonnet No. 29: “When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes” and

Sonnet no. 138 “When my love swears that she is made of truth”), Milton’s “On His Blindness” and

Paradise Lost (bk 1, II. 1-26), John Donne’s “Canonization”, Pope’s Rape of the Lock(Canto I),

Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”, William Wordsworth’s (a) “Tintern Abbey” and (b)

“The World is too Much with Us”, Percy B. Shelley’s (a) “Ode to the West Wind” (b)”To .a Skylark”,

John Keats’ (a) “Ode on a Grecian Um” (b) “La Belle Dame sans Merci™, Tennyson’s (a) “Break, Break,

Break” (b) “Ulysses”, Robert Browning’s (a)”My Last Duchess™ (b) Prospice”, Arnold’s (a) “Dover

Beach”(b)”Memorial Verses”, W. B. Yeats’(a)”The Second Coming” (b)”Sailing to Byzantium”, T. S.

Eliot’s”The Waste Land”, W. H. Auden’s”In Memory of. W. B. Yeats™, Ted Hughes’ “Crow Alights”,

Philip Larkin’s “Wants”, Whitman’s “0 Captain! My Captain!”, Emily Dickinson’s “Success is Counted

Sweetest”, Robert Frost’s (a) “Birches” (b) “Stopping by the Woods”, Rabindranath Tagore’s From

Gitanjali (11th, “Leave the Chanting” and 12th “Fruit Gathering”), Nissim Ezekiel’s .(a) “Night of

Scorpion” (b) “Philosophy”, Kamala Das’s “An Introduction”, A K Ramanujan’s “Obituary” and Derek

Walcott’s“A for CryfromAfrica“

C. Drama: Trends and movements in drama in English with special reference to the

following: Shakespeare‘s Macbeth, Twelfth Night and Merchant of Venice, Ben Jonson’s Every Man in

his Humour, Dryden’s All for Love, Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man, Galsworthy’s Justice, Harold

Pinter’s The Birthday Party, Eugene O’ Neill’s The Hairy Ape, Arthur Miller’s. All my Sons and

Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana.

D. Prose and Fiction: Trends and movements in prose and fiction in English with special reference

to the following: Francis Bacon’s “Of Studies”” and “Of Truth”, Addison’s “Sir Roger et Home’’Will

Wimble”, Steele’s”The Spectator Club” Lamb’s”Dream Children™, E.

V. Lucas’ “Tight Corners”, A. G. Gardiner’s “In Defence of Ignorance”, Bertrand Russell’s “The Road

to Happiness”, Richard Wright’s “Twelve Million Black Voices”, Mahatma Gandhi’s My Experiments with

Truth, Jawaharlal Nehru’s The Discovery of India, Maugham’s “The Luncheon”; Allen Desal’s ”A

Farewell Party” Katherine Mansfield’s “the. Fly”, 0′ Henry’s “The Last Leaf”; Fielding’s Joseph

Andrews, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Dickens’ Great Expectations, Hardy’s The Mayor of

, Casterbridge, George

.Orwell’s Animal Farm, Woolfs Mrs- Dalloway, Golding’s Lord of the Flies, Hawthorne’s The Scarlet

Letter, Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, Raja Rao’s

Kanthapura, R K Narayan’s The Bachelor of Arts; Kamala’ Markandeya’s Two Virgins and ChinuaAchebe’s

Things fall apart.

LT Grade Teacher Exam Pattern 

Official Notification for UPPSC LT Grade Written Exam Pattern & Syllabus has been issued by UPPSC. UPPSC will follow the given exam pattern of LT Grade Teacher Posts. UP LT Grade Teacher Exam Pattern is as follows:-

Part            Subjects                                 No. of Questions                        No. of Marks

Part-1         General Studies                               30                                                  30

Part-2         Concerned Main Subject              120                                                120

• Written Exam consists of Objective Multiple Choice Type Questions.
• The time Duration for Each paper is 02 Hours (120 Minutes).
• There will be 150 Questions in the Exam comprising 150 Marks
• There will  Negative Marking of 1/3 Marks in the Written Exam.
• Paper 2 will be on that Specific Subject for which candidates have applied.

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