Overview of GATE English Literature Exam
Particulars
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Details
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Examination Mode
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Computer Based Test (Online)
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Duration
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3 Hours
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Number of Paper in English Literature
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02 Papers
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Section
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General Aptitude (GA)Candidate Selected Subject
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Type of Questions
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Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)Multiple Select Questions (MSQs)Numerical Answer Type (NAT) Questions
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Design of Questions
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The questions are designed to test the listed abilities Application Analysis Comprehension Recall Synthesis
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Number of Questions
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65 Questions (including 10 questions from General Aptitude)
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Distribution of Questions in , XH and XL
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Questions from Subject Concerned – 85 Marks
General Aptitude – 15 Marks Comprehension – 20 Marks
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Total Marks
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100 Marks
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Marking Scheme
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All of the questions will be worth 1 or 2 marks
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Negative Marking
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Two types of MCQs:
MCQs – 1 mark for each correct answer; 1/3 mark will be deducted for every wrong answer.
MCQs – 2 marks for each correct answer; 2/3 mark will be deducted for every incorrect response.
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Subject
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English Literature
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Unit -1 Multi-genre literatures in English
Topics
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Chapters to be Covered
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Poetry & Prose
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chaucer to Shakespeare
Jacobean to Restoration
Austain Age 18th Century
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Drama
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Hamlet William Shakespeare.
Macbeth William Shakespeare.
Othello William Shakespeare.
Ben Jonson- Volpone
Ben Jonson- The Alchemist
Ben Jonson- Every Man in His Humour
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short Story
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Edgar Allen Poe’s Short Stories
George Orwell- Shooting an Elephant
Ray Bradbury- A Sound of Thunder
Oscar Wilde- The Nightingale and the Rose
Ernest Hemingway- The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Guy de Maupassant- The Necklace
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reative non-fiction, and non-fiction prose
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Rhetoric and Prosody
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19th and 20th
centuries
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American Literature
other Non British Literature
Modern & Contemporary Period
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forms of fiction
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three main types of fiction: the short story, the novella and the novel
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Novel
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Sir Thomas More- Utopia
Sir Thomas Malory- Le Morte d’Arthur
John Bunyan- Pilgrim Progress
Jonathan Swift- Gulliver’s Travels
Mary Shelley- Frankenstein
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Unit -2 Especially in a comparative context
Topics
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Chapters
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Especially in a comparative context
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Definition of Comparative Literature
Scope of comparative literature
Concepts of Comparative Literature
Objectives of Comparative Literature
National Literature
World Literature
History of the Comparative Literature and It’s Development
Major aspects of Comparative Literature
Analogy
Thematology
Interliterariness
COMPARATIVE CULTURE STUDIES
ROLE OF TRANSLATION IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
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anglophone and in English translation
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THE FICTIONAL TRANSLATOR IN ANGLOPHONE LITERATURES
The English Patient
Remembering Babylon & More
translation history
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literatures from India
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Indian Poetry
Indian Epics
Indian Regional Literature
Pali literature
Sanskrit drama
The Important Features in a Nutshell
Language pedagogy
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larger Indian subcontinent
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Theories of Language
Cognitivism as a theory
Vygotsky’s Socio Cultural Theory
English in South Asia
Origin and Development of Drama in Ancient Tamil Society
Types of Kuttus
Literary Translation in India
Language in Contemporary Indian Literature
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Unit -3 Literary criticism and theory
Topics
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Chapters
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Literary criticism and theory
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Importance of Literary Theory
Types of Literary Criticism
Why Study Literary Theory
The Nature and Meaning of Literary Criticism
Post-Structuralism
Deconstruction
Plato’s Philosophical Concepts
Theory of Imitation
Theory of Art
Criticism in Greco-Roman Culture
Renaissance criticism
The Defence of Poetry
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Critical and cultural intellectual-traditions
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Neoclassic period
Influences and the Secular Ethos
Mimesis or Phantasia
Romantic Criticism
Sir Philip Sidney’s Life
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Johnson’s Editorial Method
Literary Criticism in The Victorian Age
Aestheticism
Heterological thinkers
The Importance of Poetry or Poetry as a Spiritual Force
The Touchstone Method
Arnold’s Contribution
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Approaches widely
referred to and used in the discipline of English
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Henry James as Critic of Novelistic Art
Critics’ Remarks on Henry James as Critic
Art for Art’s Sake
Development of Art for Art’s Sake
The English Aestheticism
Lionel Trilling (1905-1975) and his Contemporaries
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) as literary critic
Trilling’s essay “Freud and Literature”
CONTEMPORARY TRENDS IN LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
W. K. Wimsatt and Robert Penn Warren
THE APPROACH THROUGH SOCIO-CULTURAL CONTEXT
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Unit -4 History of English literature
Topics
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Chapters
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History of English literature
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Old English (Anglo-Saxon Period) 450–1066
Middle English Period 1066-1500
The Renaissance 1500-1600
The Neoclassical Period 1600-1785
The Romantic Period 1785-1832
The Victorian Age 1832-1901
The Edwardian Period 1901-1914
The Georgian Period 1910-1936
The Modern Period Early 20th century
The Postmodern Period Mid-20th century
Homeric or Heroic Period (1200-800 BCE)
Classical Greek Period (800-200 BCE)
Classical Roman Period (200 BCE-455 BCE)
Patristic Period (c.70 CE-455 CE)
The Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period
(423-1066 CE)
The Middle English Period (c.1066-1450 CE)
Early Tudor Period (1485-1558)
Elizabethan Period (1558-1603)
Jacobean Period(1603-1625)
Caroline Age (1625-1649)
Commonwealth Period/
Puritan Interregnum(1649-1660)
Restoration Period (1660-1700)
The Augustan Age (1700-1750)
The Age of Johnson (1750-1790)
Modernist Writers, Realism, etc
MIDDLE ENGLISH ROMANCES
Life and Works of Chaucer (1340 -1400)
Elizabethan Romantic Drama
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English literary studies
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The Elements of Poetry
Classification of Poetry
METRE
Kinds of Ballad
Kinds of Epic
metrical romance
limerick
Kinds of odes
Biographies
The Essay in the 20th century
The novel and the short story
Kinds of Novel
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Unit -5 Research approaches and methodologies
Topics
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Chapters
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Research approaches and methodologies
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Research Methods
Primary and Secondary Sources
Use of Standard Abbreviations
Explanative Writing
Argumentative Writing
Form and style of thesis writing
research design
Research in English Language Teaching [ELT]
Narrative research
Phenomenological research
Grounded theory research
Ethnographic research
Case-study research
Movement in English Language Teaching
Triangulation
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interpretive techniques
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Qualitative Research
The Nature of Qualitative Data
Gathering Qualitative Data
Common literary devices,
Major Literary Forms
Eliabethan Drama
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Responsive to literary
forms, devices, concepts, and genres
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AESTHETICISM
ALLEGORY
Significance of Ambiguity in Literature
Significance of Analogy in Literature
Difference Between Biography and Autobiography
Significance of Biography in Literature
Colloquialism
Significance of Colloquialism in Literature
Significance of Drama in Literature
Significance of Elegy in Literature
Common Examples of Idiom
Significance of Imagery in Literature
Common Examples of Intertextuality
Verbal Irony
Situational Irony
Significance of Memoir in Literature
NOVELLA, NOVELETTE, NOVELLE, NOUVELLE
Onomatopoeia
Significance of Poem in Literature
First Person Singular
Common Examples of Satire
Spenserian Sonnet
Types of Stanzas
Difference between Tone and Mood
Characteristics of Genres
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GATE English literature [XH-C2] Important Topics Chapter Wise-
Units Included in GATE English Syllabus
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Important-topics
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C2.1
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From Chaucer to Shakespeare, Augustan Age, Romantic Period, American Literature, Non British Literature, Jacobean to Restorations etc.
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C2.2
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literatures from India, study of “literature without borders,anglophone etc
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C2.3
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Literary criticism,critical and cultural intellectual-traditions,
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C2.4
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English literature and English literary studies Like Shakespeare
Jane Austen
Holocaust literature
Victorian print culture
literature and law
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C2.5
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Research approaches and methodologies, including interpretive techniques responsive to literary
forms, devices
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GATE English Four-Month Preparation Plan
Preparation Time
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4 Months (16 Weeks)
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Total Chapters/ Topics to Prepare
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7
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Total Sub-Topics
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Over 60
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Studying Hours Per Day
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4 – 5 Hours
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Number of Days Required to Prepare Each Chapter
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12 Days
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Number of Chapters Completed in a Month
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2 Chapters
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Break Days or Extra Days Each Month
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2 – 3 Days*
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Time Taken to Complete Entire Syllabus
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3 Months
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Remaining Time
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One Month
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Days to Solve Sample Papers/ Model Papers/ Mock Tests
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20 Days
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Days Left for Final Revision
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10 Days
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Career Scope:
1. Postgraduate (MA) Entrance
2. Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) Entrance
3. PhD Entrance
4. Fellowship Program in Management (FPM)
5. Post Graduate Diploma in Management
6. MS Program
7. State Electricity Boards
8. Research Opportunities
GATE English (Code -C2) Exam Pattern-
Total Number of Questions in GATE 2022
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GATE 2022 will have a total of 55 + 10 (General Aptitude) questions.
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General Aptitude will have 10 questions + Reading Comprehension 15 Questions and English literature will have 40 questions.
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There is No Restriction to move to and from among the Papers.
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All the questions are compulsory to attempt.
The table below shows the exam pattern of Gate General Aptitude and GATE English literature:
English literature
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No. of Questions
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Maximum Marks
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Duration
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General Aptitude
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10
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15
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Cumulative time duration of 3 hours.Shift 1: 9.30 AM – 12.30 PMShift 2: 2.30 PM – 5.30 PM
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Reading Comprehension
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15
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25
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Gate English
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40
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60
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Total
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65 MCQs
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100 Marks
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180 minutes
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