Central Universities Common Entrance Test commonly known as CUCET is conducted for admission to Integrated / Under-graduate, Post-graduate and Research Programmes in Centres Universities. Ten Central Universities (Bihar, Gujarat, Jammu, Jharkhand, Kashmir, Kerala, Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu) have joined hands and institutionalised "Central Universities Common Entrance Test" (CUCET). Thus, one single application and entrance test (CUCET) provides opportunities for admission in Ten Central Universities located nationwide.
This is part of PG Syllabus for CUCET
CUCET M.A. English (Comparative Literature) Syllabus
Test Paper Code: PGQP04
M.A. English (Comparative Literature)
1. History of English and Indian Literatures:
General trends
2. Literary Terms:
Allegory, ballad, blank verse, comedy, connotation and denotation, dissociation of sensibility, dramatic monologue, elegy, enlightenment, epic, fancy and imagination, free verse, imitation, intentional fallacy, meter, motif, ode, onomatopoeia, paradox, plot, point of view, satire, soliloquy, sonnet, tragedy, wit etc.
3. Literary Genres:
Fiction and non‐fiction (traditional and modern classification); autobiography, biography, diary, drama, essay, novel, poetry, prose, short story etc; types and sub‐types.
4. Comparative Literature:
Definition, scope, aims and objectives; key terms, literary historiography, myth, motif etc.
5. Literary trends and literary movements:
Aestheticism, modernism and post‐modernism, mysticism, naturalism, progressivism, realism, revolutionary literature, romanticism.
6. Elementary knowledge of famous authors and texts:
From Indian, Western and Classical literature.