WBSSC SLST English (XI-XII) Hyperlinked Study Materials

General Guidelines
Poetry
- Sidney: Loving in Truth
- Spenser: One day I wrote her name
- Shakespeare: Shall I compare thee….
- John Donne: The Good Marrow
- George Herbert: Virtue
- Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock (Cantos I & II)
- Blake: The Tyger & The Lamb
- William Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
  - Christabel
  - Kubla Khan
- P. B. Shelley:
  - Ode to the West Wind
  - To a Skylark
- John Keats:
  - Ode to a Nightingale
  - To Autumn
- Alfred Tennyson: Ulysses
- Robert Browning: My Last Duchess
- W.B. Yeats: The Wild Swans at Coole
- Wilfred Owen: Strange Meeting
- T.S. Eliot: Hollow Men
Drama
- Shakespeare: Macbeth
- Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer
- Shaw: Arms and the Man
- J. M. Synge: Riders to the Sea

Novels
- Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
- Charles Dickens: David Copperfield

Short Stories
- Joseph Conrad: The Lagoon
- James Joyce: Araby
- Somerset Maugham: The Lotos Eater
- Katherine Mansfield: The Fly

Essays
- Charles Lamb:
  - Dream Children
  - The Superannuated Man
- G.B. Shaw: Freedom
- Francis Bacon: Of Studies
Grammar and Usage
- Common Errors
- Subject Verb Agreement; Tenses; Active and Passive Voice, Articles, Prepositions, Adverbs, Adjectives
- Sentence Forms
- Simple Compound, Complex, Relative Clauses
- Joining and Splitting of Sentences
- Narration
- Direct and Indirect
- Composition
- A single paragraph of about 50-60 words to be written on a given topic

Literary Devices:
- Rhetoric and Prosody

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WBSSC English Resources

HOW provides comprehensive study materials for WBSSC English, covering:

Poetry, Drama, Novels, Short Stories, and Essays from the prescribed syllabus.
Grammar and Usage—common errors, sentence structures, narration, and composition.
Literary Devices—rhetoric, prosody, and critical analysis.
Hyperlinked Study Materials for easy access to texts, critical works, and multimedia content.
Guidelines for SLST English (IX-X & XI-XII) to help candidates understand exam patterns and expectations.

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