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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
Edgar Allan Poe
Louisa May Alcott
Anne Bradstreet
Virgil
2. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Wendy Towle
Animal Farm
Caroline Cooney
Countee Cullen
3. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
The Red Badge of Courage
The Bell Jar
Mildred Taylor
Zora Neale Hurston
4. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
Frederick Douglass
The Bell Jar
TS Eliot
Wendy Towle
5. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Louisa May Alcott
HG Wells
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nancy Farmer
6. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
William Armstrong
Leo Tolstoy
Harper Lee
George Orwell
7. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe
Walt Whitman
Holes
Beloved
Henry David Thoreau
8. Wrote The House on Mango Street
Lewis Carroll
Sandra Cisneros
William Butler Yeats
Virgil
9. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
Virgil
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Ben Mikaelson
Anna Karenina
10. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Edith Wharton
Caroline Cooney
Oscar Wilde
11. Wrote The Glory Field
Virgil
Charlotte Bronte
Walter Dean Myers
SE Hinton
12. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Ester Forbes
Langston Hughes
Washington Irving
Ruth Avi
13. Wrote 'On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer -' 'To Autumn -' and 'Bright Star - Would I Were Stedfast As Thou Art;' English poet in Romantic movement during early 19th century; motifs include departures and reveries - the five sense and art - and th
Aphra Behn
Fyodor Dostoevsky
John Keats
EB White
14. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
Sonnet 18
Sandra Cisneros
Zora Neale Hurston
Percy Bysshe Shelley
15. Wrote Johnny Tremain
Avi
Jane Eyre
Ester Forbes
John Keats
16. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
'Self - Reliance'
The Joy Luck Club
Willa Cather
Charles Dickens
17. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Ester Forbes
Jean Craighead George
18. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
Sylvia Plath
Ester Forbes
Robert Frost
Toni Morrison
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
James Joyce
Lewis Carroll
William Wordsworth
Christopher Marlowe
20. A Trojan (Aeneas) destined to found Rome - undergoes many trials on land and sea during his journey to Italy - finally defeating the Latin Turnus and avenging the murder of Pallas.
HG Wells
Mildred Taylor
The Aeneid
Langston Hughes
21. set in modern times and focuses on the current circumstances of Stanley Yelnats - an unfortunate - unlucky young man who is sent to Camp Green Lake for a crime he didn't commit
Moby Dick
Not Without Laughter
Willa Cather
Holes
22. 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;
John Keats
Mildred Taylor
Johann David Wyss
The Giver
23. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker
Ernest Hemingway
Katherine Patterson
1984
Ralph Waldo Emerson
24. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
Walt Whitman
Zora Neale Hurston
The Great Gatsby
James Joyce
25. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
Zora Neale Hurston
HG Wells
Gary Paulson
The Red Badge of Courage
26. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Richard Adams
Mary Shelley
The Pigman
Stephen Crane
27. Wrote Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Mansfield Park - et al.
The Pigman
Jane Austen
The Giver
JRR Tolkein
28. 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
1984
David Copperfield
Beloved
William Butler Yeats
29. Wrote The Lion - the Witch - and the Wardrobe
Jerry Spinelli
CS Lewis
'Self - Reliance'
Holes
30. Wrote Night
James Joyce
Countee Cullen
Elie Wiesel
Johann David Wyss
31. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
The Call of the Wild
William Butler Yeats
'Self - Reliance'
The Outsiders
32. Wrote Little Women; American novelist
Mary Shelley
Louisa May Alcott
EB White
Ester Forbes
33. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
The Great Gatsby
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Zora Neale Hurston
Anne Frank
34. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Emily Dickinson
Ray Bradbury
Aurora Leigh
Zora Neale Hurston
35. Wrote 'The Road Not Taken;' American poet; highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech; won Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry four times
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Scott O'Dell
To Kill a Mockingbird
Robert Frost
36. Wrote The Outsiders
SE Hinton
Ben Mikaelson
Sandra Cisneros
Willa Cather
37. 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
Countee Cullen
William Butler Yeats
David Copperfield
Robert Cormier
38. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Beowulf
William Shakespeare
TS Eliot
Anne Frank
39. 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
Beowulf
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Watership Down
TS Eliot
40. 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
Ben Mikaelson
Langston Hughes
Oscar Wilde
Macbeth
41. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird; American author
The Aeneid
Harper Lee
Patricia Maclachlan
Elizabeth George Speare
42. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
'Civil Disobedience'
Katherine Patterson
Willa Cather
Johann David Wyss
43. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
JD Salinger
Richard Adams
Daniel Defoe
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
44. 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
EB White
Oscar Wilde
Kate Dicamillo
45. Wrote Red Badge of Courage; American novelist - short story writer - poet - journalist - raised in NY and NJ; style and technique: naturalism - realism - impressionism; themes: ideals v. realities - spiritual crisis - fears
Amy Tan
Stephen Crane
Countee Cullen
Mildred Taylor
46. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Maya Angelou
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Sharon Creech
Carl Hiaason
47. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty
Wendy Towle
Lord of the Flies
Mary Downing Hahn
Jack London
48. Wrote A Wrinkle in Time - A Swiftly Tilting Planet - A Wind in the Door - The Small Rain - 24 Days before Christmas
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49. 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
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Robinson Crusoe
Macbeth
Ray Bradbury
50. 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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