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CBSE Class 11 English

Woven Words

Short and long English chapter summaries for CBSE (NCERT) Class 11, the core reader Hornbill, the supplementary reader Snapshots and the elective reader Woven Words, on Rapid Learn.

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01

The Lament

Prose (Short Story) · by Anton Chekhov

02

A Pair of Mustachios

Prose (Short Story) · by Mulk Raj Anand

03

The Rocking-horse Winner

Prose (Short Story) · by D.H. Lawrence

04

The Adventure of the Three Garridebs

Prose (Detective Short Story) · by Arthur Conan Doyle

05

Pappachi's Moth

Prose (Novel Extract) · by Arundhati Roy

06

The Third and Final Continent

Prose (Short Story) · by Jhumpa Lahiri

07

Glory at Twilight

Prose (Short Story) · by Bhabani Bhattacharya

08

The Luncheon

Prose (Humorous Short Story) · by William Somerset Maugham

09

The Peacock

Poem (Nature Lyric) · by Sujata Bhatt

10

Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds

Poem (Sonnet) · by William Shakespeare

11

Coming

Poem (Reflective Lyric) · by Philip Larkin

12

Telephone Conversation

Poem (Satirical / Dramatic Monologue) · by Wole Soyinka

13

The World is too Much With Us

Poem (Sonnet) · by William Wordsworth

14

Mother Tongue

Poem (Lyric, translated from Dogri) · by Padma Sachdev

15

Hawk Roosting

Poem (Dramatic Monologue) · by Ted Hughes

16

For Elkana

Poem (Domestic Lyric) · by Nissim Ezekiel

17

Refugee Blues

Poem (Ballad / Blues) · by Wystan Hugh Auden

18

Felling of the Banyan Tree

Poem (Free Verse / Environmental) · by Dilip Chitre

19

Ode to a Nightingale

Poem (Ode) · by John Keats

20

Ajamil and the Tigers

Poem (Satire / Allegory) · by Arun Kolatkar

21

My Watch

Essay (Humorous Essay) · by Mark Twain

22

My Three Passions

Essay (Autobiographical / Reflective) · by Bertrand Russell

23

Patterns of Creativity

Essay (Lecture / Literary-Scientific) · by S. Chandrasekhar

24

Tribal Verse

Essay (Literary / Cultural Criticism) · by G.N. Devy

25

What is a Good Book?

Essay (Literary Criticism) · by John Ruskin

26

The Story

Essay (Literary Criticism) · by E.M. Forster

27

Bridges

Essay (Autobiographical Extract) · by Kumudini Lakhia

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