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Character interpretation  \no Fool in King Lear  \no Nora inA Doll’s House  \no Caliban in The Tempest  \n2. Symbolism-based  \no Storm in King Lear  \no Waiting in Godot  \no Door slam inA Doll’s House  \n3. Aristotelian tragedy application  \no Hamartia in Oedipus Rex  \no Peripeteia in Greek tragedy  \n4. Postcolonial & Feminist readings  \no The Tempest  \no The Duchess of Malfi  \nRarely asked: Direct story narration  \nFrequently asked: Interpretation + critical lens  \n􂰰 UNIT 2 – POETRY  \nWeightage: 12–14 Questions (Very Heavy)  \nNature: Concept + Terminology + Quotation-based  \n􀶟 Question Types  \n1. Quotation identification  \no “Negative capability” → Keats  \no “Unacknowledged legislators” → Shelley  \n2. Concept-based  \no Dramatic monologue → Browning  \no Objective correlative → Eliot  \no Blank verse → Milton  \n3. Movement-based  \no Romanticism vs Classicism  \no Victorian crisis of faith  \no Modernist fragmentation  \n4. Form-based  \no Villanelle  \no Sonnet  \no Ode  \no Elegy  \nVery Rare: Full poem explanation  \nVery Frequent: One-line conceptual application  \n􂰰 UNIT 3 – FICTION  \nWeightage: 10–12 Questions  \nNature: Theme-based + Narrative technique + Ideological  \n􀶟 Question Types  \n1. Narrative technique  \no Stream of consciousness → Woolf, Joyce  \no Free indirect discourse → Austen  \n2. Thematic  \no Imperialism → Heart of Darkness  \no Marriage market → Pride and Prejudice  \no Determinism → Hardy  \n3. Genre-based  \no Bildungsroman  \no Künstlerroman  \nRare: Plot summary  \nCommon: Theme + technique + ideology  \n􂰰 UNIT 4 – NON-FICTION PROSE  \nWeightage: 4–5 Questions  \nNature: Style-based + Matching questions  \n􀶟 Question Types  \n• Bacon → Aphoristic style  \n• Lamb → Romantic nostalgia  \n• Orwell → Political clarity  \n• Addison & Steele → Rise of public sphere  \nMostly asked as MATCH THE FOLLOWING  \n􂰰 UNIT 5 – LITERARY CRITICISM  \nWeightage: 12–14 Questions  \nNature: Definition-based + Concept-application  \n􀶟 Highly Repeated Question Types  \n1. Definition-based  \no Catharsis  \no Hamartia  \no Mimesis  \no Objective correlative  \n2. Theoretical statements  \no Wordsworth → Common language  \no Coleridge → Imagination vs Fancy  \no Eliot → Impersonality  \no Frye → Myth criticism  \n3. Comparison  \no Plato vs Aristotle  \no Romantic vs Neoclassical  \nMost scoring unit after Theory  \n􂰰 UNIT 6 – LITERARY THEORY (HIGHEST WEIGHTAGE)  \nWeightage: 15–18 Questions  \nNature: Pure Concept + Thinker-based + Terminology  \n􀶟 Question Types by Theory  \nTheory  \nStructuralism  \nFormalism  \nNew Criticism  \nMarxism  \nFeminism  \nPostcolonial  \nType of Question  \nSignifier–signified Defamiliarization Fallacies Base–superstructure Gynocriticism Hybridity, Subaltern  \nDeconstruction Différance  \nQueer Theory Gender performativity  \nAlmost NO passage-based questions here Pure memory + concept application  \n􂰰 UNIT 7 – INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH  \nWeightage: 8–10 Questions  \nNature: Theme-based + Technique-based  \n􀶟 Question Types  \n• Raja Rao → Sthala-purana  \n• Anand → Social realism  \n• Narayan → Malgudi  \n• Rushdie → Magic realism  \n• Ghosh → History & fiction  \n• Kamala Das → Confessional feminism  \nHighly predictable  \n\n| 􂰰 UNIT 8 – AMERICAN & OTHER LITERATURES\u003Cbr>Weightage: 6–8 Questions\u003Cbr>Nature: Movement-based + Identity-based\u003Cbr>􀶟 Typical Question Types\u003Cbr>• Emerson → Transcendentalism\u003Cbr>• Whitman → Democratic poetry\u003Cbr>• Dickinson → Death & immortality\u003Cbr>• Faulkner → Stream of consciousness\u003Cbr>• Morrison → Black identity\u003Cbr>• Achebe → Counter-colonial narrative\u003Cbr>Frequently asked as single-line identity questions |\n| --- |\n| 􂰰 UNIT 9 – LITERARY TERMS & PROSODY","cbCaid6aMWODIbRC","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaid6aMWODIbRC","pdf",309921,"English","# Unit 1 - Drama\n## Most common question types\n# Unit 2 - Poetry\n## Question types and frequency\n# Unit 3 - Fiction\n## Narrative technique and thematic questions\n# Unit 4 - Non-Fiction Prose\n## Style-based and matching questions\n# Unit 5 - Literary Criticism\n## Definition, theory, and comparison\n# Unit 6 - Literary Theory\n## Theory-wise question structure and weightage\n# Unit 7 - Indian Writing in English\n## Theme and technique patterns\n# Unit 8 - American & Other Literatures\n## Movement and identity questions\n# Unit 9 - Literary Terms & Prosody\n## Technical and definition-based\n# Unit 10 - Research Methods\n## Repeated practical and digital items\n# Overall distribution and qualifying strategy","[{\"question\":\"What are the highest-weightage units in the UGC NET English syllabus analysis?\",\"answer\":\"Unit 6 (Literary Theory) has the highest weightage range of 15–18 questions. 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