TNPSC Group 2 General English Where to Study Part B and Part C

TNPSC Group 2 General English Where to Study Part B and Part C

Part – B

Poetry

(a) Figures of Speech

(Alliteration – Simile – Metaphor Personification – Onomatopoeia – Anaphora – Rhyme Scheme – Rhyming Words – Repetition, etc.)

(b) Poetry Appreciation

(c) Important Lines

LIST OF POEMS

1. Life – Henry Van Dyke ➨ 10th std book Unit 1
2. I am Every Woman – Rakhi Nariani Shirke ➨ 10th std book Unit 3
3. The Secret of the Machines – Rudyard Kipling ➨ 10th std book
4. The Ant and The Cricket – Adapted from Aesop’s fables ➨ 10th std book Unit 4
5. No Men are Foreign – James Falconer Kirkup ➨ 10th std book Unit 6
6. The House on Elm Street – Nadia Bush ➨ 10th std book Unit 7
7. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening – Robert Frost ➨ 9th std book Unit 1
8. A Poison Tree – William Blake ➨ 9th std book Unit 2
9. On Killing a Tree – Gieve Patel ➨ 9th std book Unit 3
10. The Spider and the Fly – Mary Botham Howitt ➨ 9th std book Unit 4
11. The River – Caroline Ann Bowles ➨ 9th std book Unit 5
12. The Comet – Norman Littleford ➨ 9th std book Unit 6
13. The Stick-together Families – Edgar Albert Guest ➨ 9th std book Unit 7
14. Special Hero – Christina M. Kerschen ➨ 8th std book Unit 1
15. Making Life Worth While – George Elliot ➨ 8th std book Unit 3
16. A Thing of Beauty – John Keats ➨ 8th std book Unit 4
17. Lessons in Life – Brigette Bryant & Daniel Ho ➨ 8th std book Unit 6
18. My Computer Needs a Break – Shanthini Govindan ➨ 8th std book Unit 7
19. Your Space – David Bates ➨ 7th term 1 Unit 3
20. Sea Fever – John Masefield ➨ 7th term 3 Unit 1
21. Courage – Edgar Albert Guest ➨ 7th term 3 Unit 2
22. Team Work – Edgar Albert Guest ➨ 6th term 2 Unit 1
23. From a Railway Carriage – Robert Louis Stevenson ➨ 6th term 2 Unit 2
24. Indian Seasons – Nisha Dyrene ➨ 6th term 3 Unit 1
25. A Tragic Story – William Makepeace Thackeray ➨ 6th term 3 Unit 2

Part – C

Literary Works

LIST OF PROSE

1. His First Flight – Liam O’Flaherty ➨ 10th std book Unit 1
2. The Tempest – Tales From Shakespeare ➨ 10th std book Unit 1 Supplementary 
3. The Last Lesson – Alphonse Daudet ➨ 10th std book Unit 6
4. The Little Hero of Holland – Mary Mapes Dodge ➨ 10th std book Unit 6 Supplementary
5. The Dying Detective – Arthur Conan Doyle ➨ 10th std book Unit 7
6. Learning the Game (Book Extract) – Sachin Tendulkar ➨ 9th std book Unit 1
7. The Cat and the Painkiller (An Extract from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) – Mark Twain ➨ 9th std book Unit 4 Supplementary
8. Water – The Elixir of Life – Sir C.V.Raman ➨ 9th std book Unit 5
9. The Story of a Grizzly Cub – William Temple Hornaday ➨ 9th std book Unit 5 Supplementary
10. Sir Isaac Newton – Nathaniel Hawthorne ➨ 8th std book Unit 3
11. My Reminiscence – Rabindranath Tagore ➨ 8th std book Unit 4
12. The Woman on Platform 8 – Ruskin Bond ➨ 8th std book Unit 1 Supplementary
13. The Nose Jewel – C.Rajagopalachari ➨ 8th std book Unit 1
14. A Birthday Letter – Jawaharlal Nehru ➨ 9th std book Unit 7

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