Literature: Prose and Poetry

Key prose chapters (The Portrait of a Lady, A Photograph, We're Not Afraid to Die, Discovering Tut, Landscape of the Soul, The Ailing Planet, The Browning Version, The Adventure) and poems from the NCERT Hornbill textbook for Class 11.

12 min readWeightage: Literature (Hornbill) contributes about 20-24 marks via extract-based and long-answer questions in Class 11 boards30-question chapter test included

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