One Week Series For RPSC Second Grade English Literature

Description

One Week Series for RPSC Second Grade English is a focused 7‑day revision book built exactly on the updated RPSC Second Grade English Literature syllabus. It follows your chapter order and covers all prescribed poems, prose pieces, fiction, and drama, along with core forms, devices, and periods.

What’s Inside

Across 7 days, the book moves in the same order as your table of contents:

• Day 1: Literary Forms, Devices, and Techniques
  Simile, metaphor, personification, pun, hyperbole, alliteration, onomatopoeia, sonnet, ode, elegy, ballad, soliloquy, dramatic monologue, stream of consciousness.

• Day 2: Major Literary Periods and Movements
  Renaissance, Metaphysical, Jacobean, Neoclassical, Romantic, Victorian, Modern periods, plus key movements such as Romanticism, Gothic, Pre‑Raphaelite Brotherhood, Realism, Existentialism.

• Day 3: Poetry — Part 1 (British Classics)
  Shakespeare — Sonnet 30 (When to the Sessions)
  Milton — On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty‑Three
  Donne — The Sunne Rising
  Dryden — A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day
  Wordsworth — The Solitary Reaper
  Keats — A Thing of Beauty
  Browning — The Last Ride Together
  Tennyson — Ulysses.

• Day 4: Poetry — Part 2 (Modern and Indian)
  T. S. Eliot — The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
  Pablo Neruda — Keeping Quiet
  Nissim Ezekiel — Night of the Scorpion
  Kamala Das — My Mother at Sixty‑Six
  Arun Kolatkar — The Bus
  Sri Aurobindo — The Pilgrim of Night
  Toru Dutt — Our Casuarina Tree.

• Day 5: Major Prose Writers
  Bacon — Of Studies
  Addison — Meditations in Westminster Abbey
  Lamb — My Relations
  Shaw — Freedom
  Daudet — The Last Lesson
  Pearl S. Buck — The Enemy.

• Day 6: Major Fiction – A Tale of Two Cities & Malgudi Days
  Charles Dickens — A Tale of Two Cities
  R. K. Narayan — Malgudi Days (selected stories mapped to the syllabus focus).

• Day 7: Major Drama
  William Shakespeare — Macbeth
  Anton Chekhov — A Marriage Proposal.

Chapter Structure (Same for Each Day)

Section A: Quick Revision Notes

• Clean, exam‑ready notes on each topic / text.

• Short author highlights, plot outlines, important images and themes.

• Literary terms and periods explained in simple, direct language.

Section B: High‑Yield MCQs

• Around 40–60 MCQs per day, strictly based on the Second Grade syllabus.

• Mix of factual, conceptual, and meaning‑based questions on poems, prose, fiction, drama, forms, and periods.

• Each correct answer has a brief explanation; close wrong options are clarified to remove confusion.

Section C: Memory Tricks and Exam Tips

• Topic‑wise memory hooks for dates, titles, and key lines.

• “Trap alerts” for commonly confused authors, works, and terms.

• Practical elimination strategies for handling look‑alike options in RPSC papers.

Section D: Homework Practice Test

• 30–50 extra questions per chapter for self‑practice.

• Separate answer key at the end of each day so you can check quickly and track your score.

Who This Book Is For

• Candidates appearing for RPSC Second Grade English who want a 7‑day crash‑revision fully matched with the official syllabus (forms, periods, poetry, prose, fiction, drama).

• Learners who prefer short notes + targeted MCQs + strategy rather than bulky, unfocused material.

• Tutors and coaching centres looking for ready‑to‑use chapter‑wise practice sets on the exact prescribed texts.

By strictly following the Day 1–7 structure and the official list of forms, periods, poems, prose, fiction, and plays, this One Week Series volume is meant to be your last‑week companion: open a day, revise, practice, and move to the next with confidence.