Get well-structured WBSSC English question answers covering grammar, comprehension, and literature for effective exam preparation. Ideal for aspirants aiming for success in West Bengal SSC exams.
Poetry:
- Sir Philip Sidney — Loving in Truth
- Edmund Spenser — One Day I Wrote Her Name
- William Shakespeare — Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day
- John Donne — The Good Morrow
- George Herbert — Virtue
- Alexander Pope — The Rape of the Lock (Cantos I & II)
- William Blake — The Tyger, The Lamb
- William Wordsworth — Tintern Abbey
- S.T. Coleridge — Christabel, Kubla Khan
- P.B. Shelley — Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark
- John Keats — Ode to a Nightingale, To Autumn
- Alfred Lord Tennyson — Ulysses
- Robert Browning — My Last Duchess
- W.B. Yeats — The Wild Swans at Coole
- Wilfred Owen — Strange Meeting
- T.S. Eliot — The Hollow Men
Drama:
- William Shakespeare — Macbeth
- Oliver Goldsmith — She Stoops to Conquer
- George Bernard Shaw — Arms and the Man
- J.M. Synge — Riders to the Sea
Novel:
- Jane Austen — Pride and Prejudice
- Charles Dickens — David Copperfield
Short Story:
- Joseph Conrad — The Lagoon
- James Joyce — Araby
- W. Somerset Maugham — The Lotus Eater
- Katherine Mansfield — The Fly
Essay:
- Charles Lamb — Dream Children: A Reverie, The Superannuated Man
- G.B. Shaw — Freedom
- Francis Bacon — Of Studies
Grammar and Usage:
- Common Errors
- Subject-Verb Agreement
- Tenses
- Active and Passive Voice
- Articles
- Prepositions
- Adverbs
- Adjectives
Sentence Forms:
- Simple
- Compound
- Complex
- Relative Clauses
- Joining and Splitting of Sentences
Narration:
- Direct Speech
- Indirect Speech
Composition:
- Paragraph
- Letter
- Essay
- Report
- Dialogue
- Story Writing (as per exam pattern)
Literary Devices:
- Rhetoric
- Prosody