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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Willa Cather
William Armstrong
Mary Downing Hahn
1984
2. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Jean Craighead George
Robert Cormier
SE Hinton
Oscar Wilde
3. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
Emily Bronte
'In Reference to her Children'
Jack London
Animal Farm
4. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Armstrong
Herman Melville
Anne Bradstreet
5. A man is shipwrecked on an island - where he lives for more than 20 years - fending off cannibals and creating a pleasant life for himself
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
CS Lewis
Robinson Crusoe
Percy Bysshe Shelley
6. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
Willa Cather
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Virginia Woolf
Nancy Farmer
7. Wrote Out of the Dust
'Self - Reliance'
Karen Hesse
Edgar Allan Poe
Henry David Thoreau
8. Wrote Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
Daniel Defoe
Ernest Hemingway
Mary Shelley
9. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
Nathaniel Hawthorne
John Keats
Aurora Leigh
Ben Mikaelson
10. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
S.E. Hinton
Mildred Taylor
The Catcher in the Rye
William Golding
11. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Washington Irving
Frankenstein
The Outsiders
Wendy Towle
12. 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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13. 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
Caroline Cooney
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
William Wordsworth
14. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
Sharon Creech
Kate Dicamillo
Robert Cormier
The Outsiders
15. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
'Civil Disobedience'
William Golding
To Kill a Mockingbird
SE Hinton
16. 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;
Henry David Thoreau
The Giver
Mark Twain
Alice In Wonderland
17. Wrote Holes
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Louis Sacher
Madeline L'Engle
Ray Bradbury
18. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Christopher Paul Curtis
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Charlotte Bronte
Mildred Taylor
19. heroic fantasy novel about a small group of British rabbits; Fiver - a young runt rabbit who is a seer - receives a frightening vision of his warren's imminent destruction
Watership Down
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lord of the Flies
Karen Hesse
20. A monomaniacal captain tries and fails to kill a monstrous white whale; adventure story - quest tale - allegory; protagonist: Ishmael - Ahab; antogonist: Ahab - great white sperm whale
Sonnet 18
William Armstrong
Charlotte Bronte
Moby Dick
21. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
'Self - Reliance'
Christopher Marlowe
Ruth Avi
Emily Dickinson
22. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Mildred Taylor
Leo Tolstoy
Avi
Jean Craighead George
23. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
Edgar Allan Poe
Robert Cormier
Sharon Creech
TS Eliot
24. Wrote The Lion - the Witch - and the Wardrobe
Moby Dick
Virginia Woolf
Caroline Cooney
CS Lewis
25. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Toni Morrison
Virgil
Carl Hiaason
Stephen Crane
26. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
Elie Wiesel
The Pigman
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Red Badge of Courage
27. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Anna Karenina
Caroline Cooney
Frederick Douglass
Johann David Wyss
28. Wrote The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton
EB White
Kate Dicamillo
Lewis Carroll
29. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Avi
Paul Zindel
George Orwell
Robert Frost
30. Wrote Watership Down
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Richard Adams
Charlotte Bronte
Lord Byron
31. A great warrior - goes to Denmark on a successful mission to kill Grendel; he returns home to Geatland - where he becomes king and slays a dragon before dying; poem; alliterative verse - elegy - small scale heroic epic; author unknown; setting around
Beowulf
Alice Walker
Karen Hesse
Wendy Towle
32. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Christopher Paul Curtis
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
SE Hinton
Amy Tan
33. Book written by George Orwell - announced an insane world of dehumanization through terror in which the individual was systematically obliterated by an all - power elite; key phrases: Big Brother - doublethink - Newspeak - the Ministry of Peace...Tru
David Copperfield
Countee Cullen
The Bell Jar
1984
34. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty
Charlotte Bronte
Robert Cormier
Zora Neale Hurston
Lord of the Flies
35. 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
William Golding
The Bell Jar
Robert Frost
Langston Hughes
36. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
Alice In Wonderland
Little Women
The Red Badge of Courage
Jane Austen
37. 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
Madeline L'Engle
Animal Farm
Oscar Wilde
Mary Shelley
38. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mildred Taylor
Countee Cullen
39. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
Countee Cullen
James Joyce
Helen Keller
Toni Morrison
40. Wrote Hoot
Beowulf
Kate Chopin
Little Women
Carl Hiaason
41. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
JD Salinger
Daniel Defoe
Jane Eyre
Nancy Farmer
42. Maintains the bird metaphor throughout the poem's ninety - six lines - describing the various 'flights' of five of her children and her concerns about those remaining in the nest
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43. Bildungsroman; after being expelled from a prep school - a 16- year - old boy (Holden Caulfield) goes to NYC - where he reflects on the phoniness of adults and heads towards a nervous breakdown
Charlotte Bronte
The Catcher in the Rye
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Anne Bradstreet
44. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Jean Craighead George
Ray Bradbury
Herman Melville
Washington Irving
45. Wrote The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros
Leo Tolstoy
Zora Neale Hurston
To Kill a Mockingbird
46. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Beloved
HG Wells
Johann David Wyss
Lord Byron
47. Wrote Wuthering Heights
Alice In Wonderland
Mark Twain
Emily Bronte
EB White
48. Wrote 'Wild Nights -- Wild Nights!;' 'I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died -' and 'Because I Could Not Stop For Death --;' 19th century poet; major themes: flowers/gardens - the master poems - morbidity - gospel poems - the undiscovered continent; irregula
Emily Dickinson
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
SE Hinton
S.E. Hinton
49. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
David Copperfield
Louis Sacher
Zora Neale Hurston
F. Scott Fitzgerald
50. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
William Shakespeare
John Keats
The Giver
Elizabeth George Speare