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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. 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
Caroline Cooney
The Catcher in the Rye
The Red Badge of Courage
Langston Hughes
2. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Edith Wharton
Willa Cather
Langston Hughes
Christopher Paul Curtis
3. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
Harper Lee
Anne Frank
Beowulf
The Bell Jar
4. 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.
Moby Dick
Percy Bysshe Shelley
William Butler Yeats
The Aeneid
5. 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'
Little Women
Washington Irving
Ernest Hemingway
Leo Tolstoy
6. 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
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Robert Frost
Aurora Leigh
Ernest Hemingway
7. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Ruth Avi
Jean Craighead George
Ben Mikaelson
Wendy Towle
8. Wrote Hoot
Elie Wiesel
Carl Hiaason
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Gary Paulson
9. Wrote Little Women; American novelist
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Herman Melville
Kate Dicamillo
Louisa May Alcott
10. 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
Robinson Crusoe
Alice In Wonderland
John Keats
William Butler Yeats
11. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
Sylvia Plath
Karen Hesse
William Wordsworth
The Great Gatsby
12. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye
Ester Forbes
To Kill a Mockingbird
13. 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
The Outsiders
Washington Irving
Patricia Maclachlan
The Joy Luck Club
14. Wrote Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
Holes
Lord Byron
Karen Hesse
15. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
William Butler Yeats
The Great Gatsby
Little Women
Aphra Behn
16. Wrote Hatchet
Alice In Wonderland
Gary Paulson
Henry David Thoreau
Geoffrey Chaucer
17. Wrote The Awakening - The Storm; feminist author of the 20th century; born in St. Louis - Missouri
Kate Chopin
Madeline L'Engle
Beloved
Leo Tolstoy
18. Wrote The Glory Field
S.E. Hinton
Walter Dean Myers
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Katherine Patterson
19. 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
JD Salinger
Charlotte Bronte
Holes
The Outsiders
20. 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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21. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
The Call of the Wild
Sandra Cisneros
Nancy Farmer
Not Without Laughter
22. 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 Pigman
Patricia Maclachlan
William Golding
Animal Farm
23. Wrote Holes
Oscar Wilde
'Self - Reliance'
Lord Byron
Louis Sacher
24. Wrote The Hobbit
David Copperfield
Toni Morrison
JRR Tolkein
Frankenstein
25. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
Frankenstein
JD Salinger
The Great Gatsby
Virginia Woolf
26. 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;
Holes
The Giver
Ernest Hemingway
Aphra Behn
27. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty
Ester Forbes
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Lord of the Flies
Harper Lee
28. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
'In Reference to her Children'
Elizabeth George Speare
Maya Angelou
Sharon Creech
29. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Anne Bradstreet
Charlotte Bronte
Fyodor Dostoevsky
30. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
Zora Neale Hurston
Walter Dean Myers
Edith Wharton
Elizabeth George Speare
31. Wrote The House on Mango Street
Mary Shelley
'Self - Reliance'
Ben Mikaelson
Sandra Cisneros
32. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Catcher in the Rye
Wendy Towle
Mark Twain
Avi
33. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
George Orwell
Daniel Defoe
Ester Forbes
Lewis Carroll
34. 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
Farenheit 451
The Great Gatsby
Carl Hiaason
Fyodor Dostoevsky
35. Wrote Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Mansfield Park - et al.
Alice Walker
CS Lewis
Sharon Creech
Jane Austen
36. Wrote The Great Gatsby
'In Reference to her Children'
Robert Frost
Avi
F. Scott Fitzgerald
37. Wrote Sounder
William Armstrong
Caroline Cooney
Lord Byron
Jane Eyre
38. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Charlotte Bronte
Washington Irving
Beloved
Anne Frank
39. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
1984
Carl Hiaason
Ray Bradbury
Geoffrey Chaucer
40. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Alice In Wonderland
Ben Mikaelson
Virgil
Sharon Creech
41. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Jane Austen
Madeline L'Engle
Jack London
Leo Tolstoy
42. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Charles Dickens
Willa Cather
Nathaniel Hawthorne
43. 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
Lewis Carroll
Kate Dicamillo
James Joyce
Animal Farm
44. Wrote Johnny Tremain
Ester Forbes
JD Salinger
Herman Melville
Johann David Wyss
45. 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
CS Lewis
Beowulf
HG Wells
Toni Morrison
46. Gothic novel; a scientist creates a monster - and then abandons it in horror - a decision that leads to disaster and the deaths of nearly everyone he loves
Ester Forbes
Langston Hughes
Anne Frank
Frankenstein
47. Wrote Maniac Magee
Walter Dean Myers
Katherine Patterson
Animal Farm
Jerry Spinelli
48. Wrote Charlotte's Web
Edith Wharton
Mark Twain
Moby Dick
EB White
49. Wrote The Yearling
Leo Tolstoy
Patricia Maclachlan
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Ruth Avi
50. 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
Harper Lee
Macbeth
Emily Dickinson
Farenheit 451
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