Essays
ENGLISH-A CLASS XI
Full Marks – 100 1. Prose – 20 marks 2. Verse – 20 marks Textual Grammar – 16 marks 1. Essay writing [350-400 words] – 12 marks 2. Rhetoric – 12 marks 3. Project – 20 marks Prose and Poetry – (40 m/40P)
Prose 1. One of these Days-Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2. The Sunder-bans Inheritance- Bittu Sehgal 3. Making Writing Simple- J.B. Priestley 4. Through the Tunnel- Dorris Lessing Poetry 1. Stolen Boat – William Wordsworth 2. You who never arrived – Rainer Maria Rilke 3. Snake- D H Lawrence 4. The Monkey and the Crocodile – Vikram Seth
Textual Grammar – (16M/10P) Questions will be set on the following grammatical items from the prescribed pieces: Tense, Voice, Group verbs, Preposition, Relative clause, Participle, Gerund, Subject- verb agreement. Essay writing (350-400 words- 12M/12P) Essays on current topics should be practiced. Rhetoric (12M/8P) 4 questions (out of 6) of 3 marks each (1 mark for identifying the figure of speech and 2 marks for explaining) will be set from the following figures of speech: Simile, Metaphor, Metonymy, Synecdoche, Alliteration, Hyperbaton, Epigram, Anti-thesis, Irony, Innuendo, Transferred epithet, Oxymoron, Interrogation, Exclamation, Epanaphora, Chiasmus, Litotes, Onomatopoeia. Project (20M/10P) Topics for project: (any one) § The Canterbury Tales § Elizabethan Drama § Eighteenth century Novel
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Romantic Poetry
ENGLISH-A CLASS XII
Question from Prose Section – 20 marks Question from Verse Section – 20 marks Questions from play – 12 marks Textual grammar – 10 marks Substance with critical analysis – 8 marks ESP [business letter, article writing] – 10 marks Project – 20 marks TOTAL- 100 marks Prose and Poetry – Prose 1. 2. 3. 4. (40 m/40P)
Michael Angelo – Gulzar Debut on Stage – Charles Chaplin War – Luigi Pirandello A Chameleon – Anton Chekov
Poetry 1. Let me Not – William Shakespeare 2. Song Offerings # 63 – Rabindranath Tagore 3. Dulce et Decorum – Wilfred Owen 4. Tonight I can write – Pablo Neruda Play
Full Marks – 100 1. Prose – 20 marks 2. Verse – 20 marks Textual Grammar – 16 marks 1. Essay writing [350-400 words] – 12 marks 2. Rhetoric – 12 marks 3. Project – 20 marks Prose and Poetry – (40 m/40P)
Prose 1. One of these Days-Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2. The Sunder-bans Inheritance- Bittu Sehgal 3. Making Writing Simple- J.B. Priestley 4. Through the Tunnel- Dorris Lessing Poetry 1. Stolen Boat – William Wordsworth 2. You who never arrived – Rainer Maria Rilke 3. Snake- D H Lawrence 4. The Monkey and the Crocodile – Vikram Seth
Textual Grammar – (16M/10P) Questions will be set on the following grammatical items from the prescribed pieces: Tense, Voice, Group verbs, Preposition, Relative clause, Participle, Gerund, Subject- verb agreement. Essay writing (350-400 words- 12M/12P) Essays on current topics should be practiced. Rhetoric (12M/8P) 4 questions (out of 6) of 3 marks each (1 mark for identifying the figure of speech and 2 marks for explaining) will be set from the following figures of speech: Simile, Metaphor, Metonymy, Synecdoche, Alliteration, Hyperbaton, Epigram, Anti-thesis, Irony, Innuendo, Transferred epithet, Oxymoron, Interrogation, Exclamation, Epanaphora, Chiasmus, Litotes, Onomatopoeia. Project (20M/10P) Topics for project: (any one) § The Canterbury Tales § Elizabethan Drama § Eighteenth century Novel
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Romantic Poetry
ENGLISH-A CLASS XII
Question from Prose Section – 20 marks Question from Verse Section – 20 marks Questions from play – 12 marks Textual grammar – 10 marks Substance with critical analysis – 8 marks ESP [business letter, article writing] – 10 marks Project – 20 marks TOTAL- 100 marks Prose and Poetry – Prose 1. 2. 3. 4. (40 m/40P)
Michael Angelo – Gulzar Debut on Stage – Charles Chaplin War – Luigi Pirandello A Chameleon – Anton Chekov
Poetry 1. Let me Not – William Shakespeare 2. Song Offerings # 63 – Rabindranath Tagore 3. Dulce et Decorum – Wilfred Owen 4. Tonight I can write – Pablo Neruda Play