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Varanasi.  \nMobile – 9335974407  \nEmail – [atulranjan9272@live.com](atulranjan9272@live.com)  \nInstagram – drsahabatul  \n([https://www.instagram.com/drsahabatul?igsh=MXFpMjVtNjVyMjVleQ==](https://www.instagram.com/drsahabatul?igsh=MXFpMjVtNjVyMjVleQ==))  \n\n| ✅ UGC NET ENGLISH – PYQ-BASED DETAILED SYLLABUS (UNIT-WISE) |\n| --- |\n| 􂰰 UNIT 1: DRAMA (Asked in 10–12% of Paper 2)✅ MOST REPEATED AREAS\u003Cbr>􀺖 Classical Drama (2–3 PYQs)\u003Cbr>• Oedipus Rex:\u003Cbr>o Hamartia, Peripeteia, Anagnorisis\u003Cbr>o Chorus function\u003Cbr>o Dramatic irony\u003Cbr>• The Frogs:\u003Cbr>o Parody\u003Cbr>o Satire on tragic poets\u003Cbr>o Meta-theatre |\n\n􀺖 Shakespeare (4–5 PYQs every year)  \n• King Lear:  \no Fool as truth-teller  \no Gloucester subplot  \no Storm symbolism  \n• The Tempest:  \no Postcolonial readings (Prospero–Caliban)  \no Magic vs Power  \no Reconciliation theme  \n\n| 􀺖 Renaissance & Jacobean\u003Cbr>• Doctor Faustus:\u003Cbr>o Renaissance humanism\u003Cbr>o Good & Evil Angels\u003Cbr>o Damnation vs knowledge\u003Cbr>• The Duchess of Malfi:\u003Cbr>o Feminist reading\u003Cbr>o Voyeurism & patriarchy\u003Cbr>o Machiavellian villains |\n| --- |\n| 􀺖 Modern Drama (3–4 PYQs)\u003Cbr>• Waiting for Godot:\u003Cbr>o Absurdism\u003Cbr>o Cyclic time\u003Cbr>o Meaninglessness\u003Cbr>• A Doll’s House:\u003Cbr>o Identity crisis\u003Cbr>o Feminism & marriage\u003Cbr>• Saint Joan:\u003Cbr>o Individual vs institution |\n| 􂰰 UNIT 2: POETRY (12–14% – VERY HEAVY UNIT)\u003Cbr>􀺖 Chaucer\u003Cbr>• Frame narrative\u003Cbr>• Female autonomy ( Wife of Bath)\u003Cbr>• Irony + prologue vs tale |\n\n􀺖 Metaphysical Poetry (Every year 1–2 PYQs)  \n• Donne:  \no Conceit  \no Sacred + profane love  \no Dramatic monologue  \n• “The Canonization”,“The Sun Rising”  \n\n| 􀺖 Milton\u003Cbr>• Epic conventions\u003Cbr>• Blank verse\u003Cbr>• Satan as tragic hero?\u003Cbr>• Invocation of the Muse |\n| --- |\n| 􀺖 Romantics (3–4 PYQs)\u003Cbr>• Wordsworth:\u003Cbr>o Emotion recollected in tranquility\u003Cbr>• Coleridge:\u003Cbr>o Imagination vs Fancy\u003Cbr>o Supernatural poetry\u003Cbr>• Keats:\u003Cbr>o Negative capability\u003Cbr>o Sensuous imagery\u003Cbr>• Shelley:\u003Cbr>o Poet as unacknowledged legislator |\n| 􀺖 Victorians\u003Cbr>• Browning:\u003Cbr>o Dramatic monologue\u003Cbr>• Arnold:\u003Cbr>o Crisis of faith |\n\n􀺖 Modern Poetry (EVERY YEAR 2–3)  \n• Yeats:  \no Cyclic history  \no Myth & symbolism  \n• Eliot:  \no Impersonality  \no Objective correlative  \n• Auden:  \no Political poetry  \n• Dylan Thomas:  \no Villanelle form  \n\n| 􂰰 UNIT 3: FICTION (10–12%)\u003Cbr>􀺖 18th–19th Century\u003Cbr>• Austen:\u003Cbr>o Marriage market\u003Cbr>o Free indirect discourse\u003Cbr>• Dickens:\u003Cbr>o Bildung novel\u003Cbr>• Hardy:\u003Cbr>o Determinism\u003Cbr>o Tragic irony |\n| --- |\n| 􀺖 Colonial & Modernist Fiction (VERY FREQUENT)\u003Cbr>• Conrad:\u003Cbr>o Imperial gaze\u003Cbr>o Africa as “Other”\u003Cbr>• Joyce:\u003Cbr>o Stream of consciousness\u003Cbr>o Künstlerroman\u003Cbr>• Woolf:\u003Cbr>o Interior time\u003Cbr>o Free indirect discourse\u003Cbr>• Forster:\u003Cbr>o East–West conflict\u003Cbr>o Liberal humanism |\n\n􂰰 UNIT 4: NON-FICTION PROSE (4–5%)  \n• Bacon:  \no Aphoristic style  \n• Addison & Steele:  \no Rise of middle-class public sphere  \n• Lamb:  \no Romantic essay  \no Nostalgia  \n• Orwell:  \no Political prose  \no Clarity of style  \n➡ Mostly Match-the-following & tone-based MCQs  \n\n| 􂰰 UNIT 5: LITERARY CRITICISM (12–14% – CORE THEORY UNIT)\u003Cbr>􀺖 Classical (EVERY YEAR)\u003Cbr>• Plato:\u003Cbr>o Mimesis\u003Cbr>o Banishment of poets\u003Cbr>o Divine madness\u003Cbr>• Aristotle:\u003Cbr>o Catharsis\u003Cbr>o Six elements of tragedy\u003Cbr>o Hamartia\u003Cbr>o Peripeteia + Anagnorisis |\n| --- |\n| 􀺖 Neoclassical\u003Cbr>• Horace:\u003Cbr>o Decorum\u003Cbr>o Delight + instruction\u003Cbr>• Dryden:\u003Cbr>o Dramatic unities\u003Cbr>• Johnson:\u003Cbr>o Shakespeare as mirror of life |\n\n􀺖 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Eliot:\u003Cbr>o Objective correlative\u003Cbr>o Impersonality\u003Cbr>• I.A. 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