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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. An impoverished young woman (Jane) struggles to maintain her autonomy in the face of oppression - prejudice - and love; Gothic novel - bildungsroman - social portest novel
Charles Dickens
Not Without Laughter
Virginia Woolf
Jane Eyre
2. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Gary Paulson
'Self - Reliance'
Mary Shelley
3. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
EB White
Ernest Hemingway
JD Salinger
Karen Hesse
4. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist
Kate Dicamillo
Aphra Behn
Henry David Thoreau
The Bell Jar
5. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Maya Angelou
Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Civil Disobedience'
Emily Dickinson
6. In a futuristic America - a firefighter (Guy Montag) decides to buck society - stop burning books - and start seeking knowledge; themes: censorship - knowledge vs. ignorance - religion as a knowledge giver
Madeline L'Engle
William Wordsworth
Farenheit 451
Alice In Wonderland
7. 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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8. 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
Jerry Spinelli
Emily Dickinson
The Great Gatsby
Washington Irving
9. 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
Macbeth
Lewis Carroll
Langston Hughes
Robinson Crusoe
10. Wrote The Fall of the House of Usher - The Murders in the Rue Morgue - and The Raven; wrote poems: 'To Science -' 'The City and the Sea -' and 'Silence;' American writer - poet - editor and literary critic; part of American Romantic Movement
Lord of the Flies
Willa Cather
Jean Craighead George
Edgar Allan Poe
11. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
TS Eliot
Mary Downing Hahn
Animal Farm
Richard Adams
12. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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13. Wrote The House on Mango Street
The Pigman
Ruth Avi
Sandra Cisneros
Scott O'Dell
14. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Ray Bradbury
Johann David Wyss
Robert Cormier
Carl Hiaason
15. Wrote Charlotte's Web
HG Wells
EB White
Willa Cather
Ben Mikaelson
16. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Aurora Leigh
Countee Cullen
Holes
Aphra Behn
17. 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
Herman Melville
Ruth Avi
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Moby Dick
18. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Aphra Behn
The Call of the Wild
Wendy Towle
Paul Zindel
19. 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
Johann David Wyss
The Joy Luck Club
Lewis Carroll
Madeline L'Engle
20. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
Patricia Maclachlan
Jack London
Madeline L'Engle
William Butler Yeats
21. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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22. 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
Herman Melville
William Wordsworth
Leo Tolstoy
Johann David Wyss
23. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
Jack London
Beloved
Karen Hesse
Paul Zindel
24. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Robert Frost
25. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
The Call of the Wild
Leo Tolstoy
Anne Frank
Ray Bradbury
26. 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
James Joyce
The Outsiders
Ben Mikaelson
Robert Frost
27. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker
Madeline L'Engle
The Pigman
The Giver
Ralph Waldo Emerson
28. 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
Ralph Waldo Emerson
SE Hinton
Holes
Louis Sacher
29. Wrote Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton
William Butler Yeats
Geoffrey Chaucer
Amy Tan
30. Told in chapters alternating from Lorraine's and John's point of view - opens with an 'Oath -' signed by both John and Lorraine - two high school sophomores - in which they swear to tell only the facts - in this 'memorial epic' about their experience
The Catcher in the Rye
HG Wells
Wendy Towle
The Pigman
31. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Johann David Wyss
Edgar Allan Poe
Mary Shelley
The Call of the Wild
32. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Countee Cullen
Jack London
Anna Karenina
33. Wrote The Glory Field
Walter Dean Myers
William Shakespeare
Alice In Wonderland
William Golding
34. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Crime and Punishment
Sharon Creech
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Anne Bradstreet
35. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Walt Whitman
James Joyce
The Giver
Caroline Cooney
36. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
The Picture of Dorian Gray
William Golding
Aurora Leigh
Christopher Paul Curtis
37. Wrote Johnny Tremain
Frederick Douglass
Aphra Behn
Langston Hughes
Ester Forbes
38. '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
The Red Badge of Courage
Robinson Crusoe
Sonnet 18
Emily Bronte
39. Wrote The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton
Louis Sacher
Beowulf
Jerry Spinelli
40. 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
Alice In Wonderland
S.E. Hinton
Helen Keller
Stephen Crane
41. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty
Anne Frank
Patricia Maclachlan
Lord of the Flies
Farenheit 451
42. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
Kate Dicamillo
Nancy Farmer
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Aeneid
43. 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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44. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
Edith Wharton
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
William Wordsworth
The Great Gatsby
45. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
James Joyce
Jack London
Beloved
'Self - Reliance'
46. Wrote The Hobbit
JRR Tolkein
Avi
Robert Frost
Anne Bradstreet
47. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
The Aeneid
Frederick Douglass
Oscar Wilde
Beloved
48. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Mildred Taylor
Frederick Douglass
Edith Wharton
Ray Bradbury
49. Wrote Wuthering Heights
William Golding
Mark Twain
Emily Bronte
Anne Frank
50. Wrote Maniac Magee
Robert Frost
Jean Craighead George
The Catcher in the Rye
Jerry Spinelli