Hello,

The CUCET exam syllabus is released every year on its official website . The syllabus for this year is

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 nonfiction (traditional and modern classification); autobiography,

biography, diary, drama, essay, novel, poetry, prose, short story etc; types and subtypes.

4. Comparative Literature: Definition, scope, aims and objectives; key terms, literary historiography,

myth, motif etc.

5. Literary trends and literary movements: Aestheticism, modernism and postmodernism, mysticism,

naturalism, progressivism, realism, revolutionary literature, romanticism.

6. Elementary knowledge of famous authors and texts: From Indian, Western and Classical literature.

7. Awareness of current literary trends, events, activities, awards etc.

I hope this will help you.

All the best!!