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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
The Red Badge of Courage
Robert Cormier
Lewis Carroll
F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. Inspired by witch's prophecy - a man murders his way to the throne of Scotland - but his conscience plagues him and his fellow lords rise up against him; themes: unchecked ambition as a corrupting force - relationship between cruelty and masculinity
Wendy Towle
Macbeth
Lord of the Flies
Elie Wiesel
3. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
Christopher Marlowe
Sonnet 18
The Call of the Wild
To Kill a Mockingbird
4. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
Little Women
Elie Wiesel
JD Salinger
Sharon Creech
5. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
Jack London
Edith Wharton
Harper Lee
Mary Shelley
6. Wrote Jane Eyre
JD Salinger
Macbeth
Harper Lee
Charlotte Bronte
7. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Avi
Lois Lowry
Daniel Defoe
Watership Down
8. Wrote The Pigman
Paul Zindel
Nancy Farmer
Maya Angelou
Lewis Carroll
9. Wrote Roll of Thunder
Mildred Taylor
Edith Wharton
Willa Cather
Helen Keller
10. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Anna Karenina
Mary Downing Hahn
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnet 18
11. Wrote 'Any Human to Another -' 'Color -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl;' American Romantic poet; leading African - American poets of his time; associated with generation of poets of the Harlem Renaissance
Johann David Wyss
Not Without Laughter
Countee Cullen
TS Eliot
12. A group of animals mount a successful rebellion against the farmer who rules them - but their dreams of equality for all are ruined when one pig seizes power; novella - dystopian animal fable
Animal Farm
Robinson Crusoe
Katherine Patterson
The Great Gatsby
13. Wrote The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros
Virgil
Their Eyes Were Watching God
1984
14. NOT anti - society or anti - community; presupposes that the mind is initially the subject to an unhappy conformity; calls on individuals to value their own thoughts - opinions - experiences above those presented to them by other individuals - societ
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15. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
Richard Adams
Moby Dick
Charles Dickens
Christopher Paul Curtis
16. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
Karen Hesse
1984
William Wordsworth
William Golding
17. Wrote Ethan Frome
Sharon Creech
Edith Wharton
Robert Cormier
Ben Mikaelson
18. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
Karen Hesse
'Self - Reliance'
Percy Bysshe Shelley
William Shakespeare
19. Wrote 'We Are Seven -' 'The Prelude -' and 'The World is Too Much With Us;' English Romantic poet; joint publication of 'Lyrical Ballads' with Samuel Taylor Coleridge; motifs: wanders vs wandering - memory - vision/sight - light - leech gatherer; bel
Jean Craighead George
F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Wordsworth
Gary Paulson
20. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Ray Bradbury
Alice Walker
Animal Farm
Aurora Leigh
21. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
HG Wells
Herman Melville
Walter Dean Myers
Virgil
22. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Alice In Wonderland
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Aurora Leigh
23. The protagonist of the story is a boy named Sandy whose family must deal with a variety of struggles imposed upon them due to their race and class in society in addition to relating to one another
Ben Mikaelson
Not Without Laughter
Louisa May Alcott
Sylvia Plath
24. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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25. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
TS Eliot
The Giver
James Joyce
William Armstrong
26. Wrote Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
Christopher Paul Curtis
Lord Byron
Avi
27. Wrote Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Mansfield Park - et al.
'Civil Disobedience'
Jane Austen
Ruth Avi
Emily Dickinson
28. Wrote Little Women; American novelist
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Gary Paulson
The Pigman
Louisa May Alcott
29. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Oscar Wilde
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Johann David Wyss
Mark Twain
30. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Katherine Patterson
Mary Downing Hahn
Caroline Cooney
Sharon Creech
31. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Leo Tolstoy
1984
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Katherine Patterson
32. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
Patricia Maclachlan
Alice In Wonderland
The Call of the Wild
Walt Whitman
33. Wrote The Weary Blues - The Ways of White Folks - and Not Without Laughter; American poet - novelist - playwright - short story writer - and columnist; early innovator for literary art known as jazz poetry; best known for work during Harlem Renaissan
Edgar Allan Poe
Langston Hughes
JRR Tolkein
Frankenstein
34. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
Kate Chopin
Anne Frank
Henry David Thoreau
Ben Mikaelson
35. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
Henry David Thoreau
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Frankenstein
36. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Alice Walker
Elie Wiesel
William Wordsworth
The Catcher in the Rye
37. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Jack London
George Orwell
Avi
Jane Eyre
38. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Sharon Creech
Karen Hesse
Mary Shelley
Louis Sacher
39. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Bell Jar
Maya Angelou
40. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Zora Neale Hurston
Herman Melville
Wendy Towle
Anna Karenina
41. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
Kate Dicamillo
Langston Hughes
Jean Craighead George
Sylvia Plath
42. Wrote Johnny Tremain
Ester Forbes
William Shakespeare
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Washington Irving
43. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Wendy Towle
The Bell Jar
Percy Bysshe Shelley
44. Wrote Hatchet
Beloved
Mildred Taylor
Gary Paulson
Amy Tan
45. After surviving a poverty - stricken childhood - the death of his mother - a cruel stepfather - and an unfortunate first marriage - a boys finds success as a writer; themes: plight of the weak - importance of equality in marriage - dangers of wealth
Walt Whitman
Beowulf
David Copperfield
Washington Irving
46. Wrote The Glory Field
Helen Keller
Caroline Cooney
Ruth Avi
Walter Dean Myers
47. A group of poor kids (greasers) hold their own against a group of rich kids (socials aka socs) - losing two of their own in the process; protagonist: Ponyboy Curtis; bildungsroman; setting 1960s
Stephen Crane
The Outsiders
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Kate Dicamillo
48. Wrote Watership Down
Virginia Woolf
Richard Adams
Ernest Hemingway
David Copperfield
49. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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50. It is set in a future society which is at first presented as a utopian society and gradually appears more and more dystopian; therefore - it could be considered anti - utopian; the novel follows a boy named Jonas through the twelfth year of his life;
Ben Mikaelson
The Giver
Macbeth
Stephen Crane