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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. 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
Moby Dick
Jane Eyre
Robert Cormier
Sonnet 18
2. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
Animal Farm
William Butler Yeats
Elizabeth George Speare
Lord of the Flies
3. 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
JRR Tolkein
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
William Wordsworth
William Shakespeare
4. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Aphra Behn
Alice Walker
The Outsiders
5. 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.
Walt Whitman
The Aeneid
Crime and Punishment
1984
6. 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
William Butler Yeats
The Giver
Holes
Scott O'Dell
7. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist
Henry David Thoreau
Oscar Wilde
HG Wells
Toni Morrison
8. 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate;' Shakespearean couplet with ABAB CDCE EFEF GG rhyme scheme
Virgil
Jane Eyre
Mildred Taylor
Sonnet 18
9. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Mary Shelley
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Patricia Maclachlan
Anne Frank
10. Wrote Hoot
Patricia Maclachlan
Mary Downing Hahn
Lois Lowry
Carl Hiaason
11. 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
Sandra Cisneros
Amy Tan
Maya Angelou
David Copperfield
12. Wrote The Outsiders
Maya Angelou
SE Hinton
William Golding
Edith Wharton
13. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
S.E. Hinton
Anna Karenina
Edith Wharton
'Self - Reliance'
14. 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;
Aurora Leigh
The Giver
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Ernest Hemingway
15. Wrote Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
Elizabeth George Speare
The Joy Luck Club
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
16. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
Beloved
Charles Dickens
Henry David Thoreau
Ben Mikaelson
17. Wrote Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
William Armstrong
Frankenstein
18. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
CS Lewis
Elie Wiesel
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Aurora Leigh
19. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
Geoffrey Chaucer
Gary Paulson
Macbeth
Nancy Farmer
20. 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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21. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
Zora Neale Hurston
Charlotte Bronte
CS Lewis
George Orwell
22. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Mary Downing Hahn
Scott O'Dell
David Copperfield
Aphra Behn
23. Wrote The House on Mango Street
Jane Austen
Sandra Cisneros
Anna Karenina
Frankenstein
24. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
The Catcher in the Rye
Robert Frost
Christopher Marlowe
James Joyce
25. Wrote Roll of Thunder
Kate Dicamillo
Gary Paulson
Mildred Taylor
Kate Chopin
26. 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
Carl Hiaason
To Kill a Mockingbird
Ruth Avi
Robinson Crusoe
27. 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
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Louis Sacher
Not Without Laughter
Charlotte Bronte
28. Wrote Out of the Dust
Edith Wharton
Leo Tolstoy
Madeline L'Engle
Karen Hesse
29. 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
Geoffrey Chaucer
Countee Cullen
Jane Austen
The Catcher in the Rye
30. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Not Without Laughter
Crime and Punishment
Ralph Waldo Emerson
31. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism
Sharon Creech
Washington Irving
Lord Byron
Farenheit 451
32. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
Ernest Hemingway
Zora Neale Hurston
Kate Dicamillo
Jane Austen
33. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Anne Bradstreet
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Aphra Behn
The Call of the Wild
34. Wrote Little Women; American novelist
Louisa May Alcott
Jane Austen
Aurora Leigh
Karen Hesse
35. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
The Great Gatsby
Mildred Taylor
'Civil Disobedience'
Emily Bronte
36. Wrote A Farewell to Arms - The Old Man and the Sea - and The Sun Also Rises; American writer and journalist; veteran of WWI - belongs to literary movement called 'The Lost Generation'
Louis Sacher
Christopher Marlowe
Ernest Hemingway
Sonnet 18
37. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
The Bell Jar
John Keats
Willa Cather
Alice Walker
38. Wrote The Outsiders
Virginia Woolf
Mildred Taylor
JRR Tolkein
S.E. Hinton
39. 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
Frankenstein
The Pigman
1984
Avi
40. Wrote The Glory Field
Nathaniel Hawthorne
George Orwell
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Walter Dean Myers
41. Wrote The Pigman
Elizabeth George Speare
The Catcher in the Rye
Kate Dicamillo
Paul Zindel
42. Wrote The Aeneid
William Butler Yeats
Virgil
1984
Animal Farm
43. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
TS Eliot
Karen Hesse
Geoffrey Chaucer
Moby Dick
44. A group of Chinese mothers and their American - born daughters struggle to communicate and understand each other; four families dipicted Woo - Jong - Hsu - and St. Clair
Kate Dicamillo
Beowulf
Karen Hesse
The Joy Luck Club
45. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Zora Neale Hurston
Harper Lee
Anna Karenina
Anne Frank
46. Wrote Hatchet
The Outsiders
Jean Craighead George
Anna Karenina
Gary Paulson
47. Wrote Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton
Their Eyes Were Watching God
JRR Tolkein
Sharon Creech
48. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Emily Bronte
Richard Adams
Toni Morrison
Animal Farm
49. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird; American author
Louis Sacher
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Aurora Leigh
Harper Lee
50. A pampered dog (Buck) adjusts to the harsh realities of life in the North as he struggles with his recovered wild instincts and finds a master (John Thorton) who treats him right; novel - adventure story - setting late 1890s
The Call of the Wild
TS Eliot
Langston Hughes
Lois Lowry