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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird; American author
Not Without Laughter
Beloved
Harper Lee
Holes
2. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Lord of the Flies
Sandra Cisneros
Sonnet 18
3. 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
JD Salinger
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Pigman
The Aeneid
4. 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
Louis Sacher
Holes
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Percy Bysshe Shelley
5. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
JD Salinger
Mary Downing Hahn
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Jerry Spinelli
6. 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
Jerry Spinelli
Animal Farm
Mary Shelley
Walter Dean Myers
7. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Daniel Defoe
Harper Lee
Jane Eyre
Johann David Wyss
8. 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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9. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Beloved
Ray Bradbury
Not Without Laughter
William Golding
10. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
William Armstrong
JD Salinger
Christopher Paul Curtis
Zora Neale Hurston
11. 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
Virginia Woolf
Henry David Thoreau
'Civil Disobedience'
12. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
The Great Gatsby
Zora Neale Hurston
Frankenstein
Nathaniel Hawthorne
13. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Ray Bradbury
Herman Melville
SE Hinton
1984
14. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty
Daniel Defoe
'In Reference to her Children'
Beowulf
Lord of the Flies
15. 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
Edgar Allan Poe
The Aeneid
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Langston Hughes
16. 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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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
Sonnet 18
Mary Downing Hahn
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
18. 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
William Armstrong
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Red Badge of Courage
David Copperfield
19. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Frederick Douglass
Leo Tolstoy
Ruth Avi
20. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
Little Women
Jean Craighead George
Geoffrey Chaucer
Virgil
21. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
Harper Lee
Helen Keller
Maya Angelou
SE Hinton
22. Wrote Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Mansfield Park - et al.
Macbeth
Mary Shelley
William Butler Yeats
Jane Austen
23. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Richard Adams
Mark Twain
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Emily Dickinson
24. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
Washington Irving
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Robert Frost
Harper Lee
25. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Stephen Crane
Jean Craighead George
Louisa May Alcott
The Aeneid
26. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Edith Wharton
Wendy Towle
Richard Adams
William Wordsworth
27. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Ruth Avi
Robert Frost
Jean Craighead George
The Red Badge of Courage
28. 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 Chopin
William Armstrong
The Joy Luck Club
Lord Byron
29. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Charles Dickens
Herman Melville
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
30. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
Lewis Carroll
Walt Whitman
James Joyce
Paul Zindel
31. Wrote The Pigman
Animal Farm
Paul Zindel
Caroline Cooney
Patricia Maclachlan
32. Wrote The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton
Anna Karenina
Katherine Patterson
Gary Paulson
33. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
The Pigman
Aphra Behn
The Call of the Wild
Gary Paulson
34. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
George Orwell
Ben Mikaelson
Edgar Allan Poe
The Bell Jar
35. 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
Robinson Crusoe
Macbeth
Christopher Marlowe
'Self - Reliance'
36. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Anna Karenina
Watership Down
Herman Melville
Kate Chopin
37. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe
Beowulf
Walter Dean Myers
Beloved
1984
38. Wrote Wuthering Heights
Animal Farm
Emily Bronte
Frankenstein
Watership Down
39. 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
EB White
Jane Eyre
Sharon Creech
40. 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
Watership Down
Anne Bradstreet
S.E. Hinton
Jane Austen
41. Wrote Maniac Magee
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jerry Spinelli
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Catcher in the Rye
42. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
Walt Whitman
Beloved
Sylvia Plath
The Joy Luck Club
43. 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
Animal Farm
Jerry Spinelli
The Call of the Wild
HG Wells
44. Wrote Sounder
Jane Austen
William Armstrong
SE Hinton
Carl Hiaason
45. 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
Madeline L'Engle
Helen Keller
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
46. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Little Women
Sonnet 18
Lord Byron
47. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Ernest Hemingway
Caroline Cooney
Scott O'Dell
48. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Geoffrey Chaucer
SE Hinton
Robinson Crusoe
49. Wrote Watership Down
The Bell Jar
Stephen Crane
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Richard Adams
50. 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
John Keats
Charlotte Bronte
The Picture of Dorian Gray
'Civil Disobedience'
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