POLY TRB

 

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FEE STRUCTURE / POLY TRB

S.NO

CATEGORY

FEE

01

Six course completed candidates

FREE

02

Five course completed candidates

7,000

03

Four course completed candidates

10,000

04

Three course completed candidates

13,000

05

Two course completed candidates

16,000

06

One course completed candidates

19,000

07

Freshers

22,000

 

Additional Fee Concession for Previous Akshiraa Achievers

1) State First, Second, Third Rank Holders – FREE

2) Top Ten State Rank Holders – Rs. 5000

3) Already Appointed Candidates – Rs. 3000

 

 

Complete Material Overview

 

Unit I: Chaucer to Shakespeare (Part – 1)

S.No

Title

P.No

01

Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Book of the Duchess

10

02

Edmund Spencer’s Epithalamion

40

03

William Shakespeare’s Sonnets (8, 15, 24, 30, 37, 40, 46, 76, 82, 91, 112, 116, 126, 140, 144, 147, 154)     

74

04

Francis Bacon’s Essays

F Of Nobility

F Of Travel

F Of Friendship

F Of Love

109

05

Ben Jonson’s Volpone or the Fox

143

06

Christopher Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus

180

07

Sir Thomas More’s Utopia

211

 

Unit I – Chaucer to Shakespeare (Part – 2)                                  

S.No

Title

P.No

08

John Webster’s The White Devil

3

09

William Langland’s Piers the plowman

34

10

William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors

56

11

William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

81

12

William Shakespeare’s Hamlet

107

13

William Shakespeare’s Henry VIII

144

14

William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour Lost

177

 

Unit II – Jacobean to Augustan age (Part 1)                          

S.No

Title

P.No

01

John Milton’s Paradise Regained

03

02

John Dryden’s All for Love

31

03

Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock

59

04

Andrew Marvell’s Garden

86

05

Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

98

06

Jonathan Swift’s A Tale of a Tub

118

07

Addison and Steele’s The Spectators and the Coverley Papers (Essays 1-10)

137

 

Unit II – Jacobean to Augustan age (Part 2)              

S.No

Title

P.No

08

Oliver Goldsmith’s The Deserted Village          

03

09

Henry Fielding’s Joseph Andrews

44

10

Giles Fletcher’s Christ’s Victorie and Triumph

80

11

Sir Thomas Brown’s The Garden of Cyrus

84

12

William Blake’s Songs of Experience

99

13

Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe

141

14

Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels

164

15

Henry Vaughan’s Regeneration

210

 

Unit III – Romantic Period

S. No

Title

P. No

01

William Wordsworth’s The Daffodils, The Solitary Reaper

5

02

Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads,

Biographia Literaria

19

03

P. B. Shelley’s Ode to the west wind

84

04

John Keats’ To Autumn

97

05

Charles Lamb’s  The Essays of Elia

(5.1) Oxford in the Vacation

(5.2) New Year’s Eve

(5.3) Dream Children: A Reverie

(5.4) The Price of Chimney-sweeper

(5.5) My Relations

108

113

121

131

136

144

06

Byron’s Prometheus

158

07

Jane Austen’s Emma

169

08

Walter Scott’s The Talisman

198

09

William Hazlitt’s  Characters of Shakespeare’s plays

218

10

Emily Bronte’s  Wuthering Heights

244

 

Unit IV – Victorian Age

S. No

Title

P. No

01

Alfred Lord Tennyson’s The Princess: A Medley

06

02

Robert Browning:

F Men and Women

F Andrea Del Sarto

30

33

47

03

Mathew Arnold:

F Rugby Chapel

F Dover Beach

72

76

88

04

D.G. Rossetti’s The Blessed Damozel

97

05

George Eliot’s Romola

116

06

W.M. Thackeray’s Vanity Fair

139

07

R.L. Stevenson’s Treasure Island

176

08

John Ruskin’s Sesame and Lilies

218

09

Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities

257

 

Unit V – Modern and Contemporary Periods

S.No

Title

P. No

01

W.B.Yeats’s Sailing to Byzantium

03

02

Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders

15

03

Virginia Woolf’s Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Brown

38

04

A.L.Huxley’s Time Must Have a Stop

62

05

E.M.Forster’s Where Angels Fear to Tread

78

06

T.S.Eliot’s Murder in Cathedral

110

07

C.P.Snow’s Corridors of Power

139

08

G.B. Shaw’s The Devil’s Disciple

158

09

Ezra Pound’s The Pisan Cantos

176

10

Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest

194

 

Unit VI – American Literature

S. No

Title

P. No

01

Whitman’s When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d

03

02

H. W. Longfellow’s The May Queen

28

03

Edgar Allan Poe:

3.1. The Haunted Palace

3.2. My Mother

3.3. The Lake

33

37

41

43

04

Emily Dickinson:

4.1. A Something in a Summer’s Day

4.2. Bless God, He Went as Soldiers

4.3. How Happy is the Little Stone

4.4. This is My Letter to The World

50

51

54

55

57

05

Robert Frost’s Blue Berries

64

06

Wallace Stevens’ The Snow Man

75

07

Emerson’s The American Scholar

85

08

Henry James’s The Lesson of the Master

102

09

O’Neill’s The Great God Brown

114

10

Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables

133

11

Edward Albee’s The American Dream

169

12

Alice Walker’s By the Light of My Father’s Smile

192

13

Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

209

14

Earnest Hemingway’s The Old Man and The Sea

250

 

Unit VII – Indian and English Literature                  

S.No

Title

P.No

01

Nissin Ezekiel’s Night of the Scorpion

03

02

A.K. Ramanujan’s A River

10

03

R. Parthasarathy’s Lines for a Photograph

18

04

Toru Dutt’s Our Casuarina Tree

23

05

Sarojini Naidu’s The Soul’s Prayer

31

06

Anita Desai’s Where Shall We Go This Summer?

39

07

Badal Surcar’s Evam Indrajit

50

08

Sri Aurobindo’s Rose of God

68

09

Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things

78

10

Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable

105

11

Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terror

144

12

Kirish Karnard’s Tugulaq

174

 

Unit – VIII English Language and Linguistics

S. No

Title

P. No

Language

01

Origin of Language

03

02

Family of Indo-European Languages

10

03

Characteristics of the Germanic Language

20

04

Old English

24

05

Middle English

29

06

Modern English

34

07

Standard English

37

08

Foreign Influences

40

09

Growth of Vocabulary

46

10

Change of Meaning

54

Linguistics

11

Morphology

63

12

Affixes

71

13

Phonology

74

14

Minimal Pair

102

15

Perspectives of Linguistics

105

16

Linguistic Terms

113

17

Historical Linguistics

140

18

Sociolinguistics

147

19

Neurolinguistics

156

20

Dichotic Listening

166

21

Semantics and Pragmatics

172

22

Dialects

184

23

Lingua Franca and Jargon

187

24

Structural Linguistics

192

25

Phrase and Structure

199

26

Transformational Generative Grammar

203

27

Acronyms

207

28

Theories of Language Acquisition

214

29

Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing (LSRW)

222

30

Methods of Teaching

226

 

IX – Criticism and Literary Theories

S.No

Title

P.No

01

Plato’s Republic

03

02

Francis Bacon’s The Advancement of Learning

29

03

Samuel Johnson

3.1 On Fiction

3.2 Preface to Shakespeare

60

65

69

04

Mathew Arnold’s The Function of Criticism at the Present Time

97

05

I. A. Richards:

5.1 Practical Criticism

5.2 Principles of Literary Criticism

113

116

122

06

Northrop Frye’s The Critical Path

141

07

T.S.Eliot’s Hamlet and His Problems

164

08

Rene Wellek’s Concepts of Criticism

176

09

Aristotle’s Poetics

182

10

Ezra Pound’s The ABC of Reading

207

11

Wayne C. Booth’s The Rhetoric of Fiction

213

12

Empson’s Seven Types of Ambiguity

247

 

Unit X – Post-Colonial Literature and European Literature in Translation  

S.No

Title

P.No

01

      Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing

03

02

Margaret Laurence’s The Fire Dwellers

28

03

P.K. Page’s Adolescence

41

04

Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God

50

05

Wole Soyinka’s A Dance of the Forests

68

06

Wilfred Campbell’s The Winter Lakes

91

07

A.G. Smith’s The White House

97

08

Ondaatje’s There’s a Trick with a Knife I’m Learning to do

101

09

George Ryga:

9.1 Portrait of Angelica

9.2 In the Shadow of the Vulture

109

110

114

10

 Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea

121

11

Moliere’s The Comic Pastoral

135

12

Sir Thomas More’s The Four Last Things

143

 

Unit XI – General Knowledge

S.No

Title

P.No

01

History of Tamil Nadu

03

02

Indian History

20

03

Indian Constitution

73

04

Indian Economics

105

05

Geography

125

06

World Organizations

140

07

General Science

147

08

Personalities

166

09

Sports and Games

187

10

Currrent Affairs

199

 

General Material

S.No

Title

P.No

01

History of English Literature – Timeline

04

02

List of Poet Laureate

07

03

Buried in West Minister Abbey

07

04

List of Nobel Laureates

07

05

List of Booker Prize Winners

08

06

List of Sahitya Academy Award Winners

08

07

List of Pulitzer Prize Winners

08

08

List of Founders and Fathers

09

09

List of Literary movements

12

10

Literary Terms

17

 

KEY ANSWERS (STUDY MATERIAL)

Unit No

Title

P. No

I

Chaucer to Shakespeare

21

II

Jacobean to Augustan age

30

III

Romantic Period

38

IV

Victorian age

43

V

Modern and Contemporary Periods

48

VI

American Literature

53

VII

Indian and English Literature:

60

VIII

Language and Linguistics

66

IX

Criticism and Literary Theories

69

X

Post-Colonial Literature and European Literature

75

 

UNIT TEST, MODEL TEST, TRB QUESTION PAPERS

S. No

Title

P. No

01

Unit Test No – 1

81

02

Unit Test No – 2

89

03

Unit Test No – 3

97

04

Unit Test No – 4

105

05

Unit Test No – 5

113

06

Unit Test No – 6

121

07

Unit Test No – 7

129

08

Unit Test No – 8

137

09

Unit Test No – 9

145

10

Unit Test No – 10

153

11

Unit Test No – 11

161

12

Model Test – 1

169

13

Model Test – 2

194

14

Polytechnic TRB 2017 – Question Paper and Key

219

15

Polytechnic TRB 2021 – Question Paper and Key

249