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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. 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
Anne Bradstreet
Beowulf
'Civil Disobedience'
The Outsiders
2. Wrote Night
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elie Wiesel
Ben Mikaelson
The Great Gatsby
3. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
'In Reference to her Children'
Mildred Taylor
The Pigman
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
Harper Lee
Patricia Maclachlan
Frankenstein
Little Women
5. 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
Alice Walker
HG Wells
Holes
Mary Shelley
6. 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
David Copperfield
Amy Tan
Madeline L'Engle
Walter Dean Myers
7. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Patterson
William Armstrong
Animal Farm
Christopher Paul Curtis
8. 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
The Pigman
Robert Frost
The Giver
Daniel Defoe
9. In an attempt to prove a theory - a student (Raskolnikov) murders two women - after which he suffers greatly from guilt and worry; psychological drama - setting in the 1860s
JD Salinger
Crime and Punishment
Jack London
Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. Wrote Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Mansfield Park - et al.
Willa Cather
Katherine Patterson
Jane Austen
Leo Tolstoy
11. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
Farenheit 451
The Bell Jar
Lewis Carroll
Washington Irving
12. Wrote The Lion - the Witch - and the Wardrobe
'In Reference to her Children'
Jack London
CS Lewis
Leo Tolstoy
13. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Geoffrey Chaucer
Jerry Spinelli
Oscar Wilde
Robert Cormier
14. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
Aphra Behn
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Outsiders
Edgar Allan Poe
15. 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
Little Women
The Joy Luck Club
Ester Forbes
'Self - Reliance'
16. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
The Red Badge of Courage
Crime and Punishment
Louis Sacher
'In Reference to her Children'
17. 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.
Kate Dicamillo
The Aeneid
Not Without Laughter
Lord Byron
18. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Holes
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Jane Eyre
Avi
19. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
Jerry Spinelli
Moby Dick
Nancy Farmer
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
20. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Mary Shelley
William Wordsworth
Sharon Creech
Washington Irving
21. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Anna Karenina
Moby Dick
Jerry Spinelli
Herman Melville
22. 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
The Great Gatsby
CS Lewis
Emily Dickinson
Walt Whitman
23. 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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24. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
Willa Cather
Paul Zindel
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Washington Irving
25. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
William Wordsworth
Alice Walker
Ruth Avi
Maya Angelou
26. Wrote Jane Eyre
William Butler Yeats
Beowulf
Charlotte Bronte
Edgar Allan Poe
27. 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
Louisa May Alcott
Geoffrey Chaucer
Ruth Avi
Macbeth
28. 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'
Frankenstein
Robert Cormier
Emily Bronte
Ernest Hemingway
29. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Anna Karenina
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Patricia Maclachlan
30. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
Leo Tolstoy
Christopher Marlowe
Frankenstein
31. Wrote Hatchet
Animal Farm
Gary Paulson
Walter Dean Myers
Jean Craighead George
32. Wrote Sonnet 18 - Hamlet - and Macbeth; greatest playwright who ever lived - prolific poet - known for sonnets
Charles Dickens
William Shakespeare
JD Salinger
Elizabeth George Speare
33. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
Ben Mikaelson
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Crime and Punishment
The Bell Jar
34. 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
Countee Cullen
Anne Frank
Mary Downing Hahn
JD Salinger
35. 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
Oscar Wilde
Anna Karenina
Edith Wharton
36. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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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
Lord of the Flies
EB White
Anne Frank
Animal Farm
38. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Ray Bradbury
David Copperfield
HG Wells
JD Salinger
39. Wrote Ethan Frome
Aphra Behn
Patricia Maclachlan
Edith Wharton
Edgar Allan Poe
40. 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
Henry David Thoreau
Emily Dickinson
Paul Zindel
41. Wrote Doctor Faustus
CS Lewis
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Jane Eyre
Christopher Marlowe
42. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Oscar Wilde
Herman Melville
Aphra Behn
SE Hinton
43. 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
Mark Twain
Leo Tolstoy
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
John Keats
44. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
Ruth Avi
HG Wells
Alice In Wonderland
Frederick Douglass
45. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
SE Hinton
Mildred Taylor
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mary Shelley
46. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anne Frank
Mary Shelley
Anna Karenina
47. 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
Langston Hughes
William Wordsworth
Christopher Paul Curtis
Robinson Crusoe
48. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Alice Walker
George Orwell
Ernest Hemingway
Percy Bysshe Shelley
49. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
JD Salinger
Alice Walker
Robinson Crusoe
Langston Hughes
50. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
Aurora Leigh
John Keats
HG Wells
Mildred Taylor