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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
Christopher Marlowe
Kate Dicamillo
Herman Melville
Mary Shelley
2. Wrote The Chocolate War
Patricia Maclachlan
Robert Cormier
Henry David Thoreau
Ben Mikaelson
3. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
The Joy Luck Club
Jane Austen
George Orwell
Ernest Hemingway
4. Wrote The Hobbit
Ernest Hemingway
Kate Dicamillo
Lord Byron
JRR Tolkein
5. Wrote Holes
The Aeneid
Holes
Jerry Spinelli
Louis Sacher
6. Wrote Sounder
Langston Hughes
William Armstrong
Willa Cather
Jerry Spinelli
7. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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8. Wrote Out of the Dust
1984
Sandra Cisneros
Washington Irving
Karen Hesse
9. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Johann David Wyss
Anna Karenina
Helen Keller
'In Reference to her Children'
10. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism
HG Wells
1984
Ruth Avi
Lord Byron
11. Wrote Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Mansfield Park - et al.
1984
Elie Wiesel
Jane Austen
S.E. Hinton
12. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Frankenstein
Aphra Behn
CS Lewis
Caroline Cooney
13. Wrote Hoot
Carl Hiaason
David Copperfield
Aurora Leigh
Willa Cather
14. Wrote Night
Louis Sacher
David Copperfield
Elie Wiesel
Anna Karenina
15. 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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16. 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
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Watership Down
'In Reference to her Children'
Oscar Wilde
17. 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
Little Women
The Catcher in the Rye
Holes
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
18. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Anne Bradstreet
William Wordsworth
Little Women
19. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
S.E. Hinton
Daniel Defoe
Aurora Leigh
Sandra Cisneros
20. 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
William Wordsworth
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Virginia Woolf
William Butler Yeats
21. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Sonnet 18
Jean Craighead George
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Christopher Marlowe
22. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Alice Walker
Robert Frost
Lewis Carroll
Christopher Paul Curtis
23. Wrote Jane Eyre
Ben Mikaelson
Ray Bradbury
Charlotte Bronte
'In Reference to her Children'
24. 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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25. Wrote Maniac Magee
Lois Lowry
Jerry Spinelli
Anne Bradstreet
Washington Irving
26. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
Mary Downing Hahn
Harper Lee
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
S.E. Hinton
27. 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'
Lord of the Flies
Sandra Cisneros
Ernest Hemingway
Ben Mikaelson
28. An impoverished young woman (Jane) struggles to maintain her autonomy in the face of oppression - prejudice - and love; Gothic novel - bildungsroman - social portest novel
Beowulf
Jane Eyre
William Armstrong
Helen Keller
29. Wrote Mrs. Dalloway - Night and Day - The Voyage Out - and Jacob's Room; English novelist and essayist; one of the foremost modernist literary figures of 20th century
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Nancy Farmer
Virginia Woolf
Ernest Hemingway
30. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
Lois Lowry
Kate Chopin
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Zora Neale Hurston
31. Wrote Doctor Faustus
Christopher Paul Curtis
Helen Keller
Christopher Marlowe
The Outsiders
32. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Daniel Defoe
The Red Badge of Courage
Ester Forbes
Carl Hiaason
33. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Little Women
William Shakespeare
Herman Melville
Walt Whitman
34. '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
Maya Angelou
Sonnet 18
HG Wells
Frankenstein
35. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
Aphra Behn
William Wordsworth
Willa Cather
Frankenstein
36. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Johann David Wyss
Charlotte Bronte
Harper Lee
Farenheit 451
37. Wrote The Pigman
Christopher Paul Curtis
Paul Zindel
Herman Melville
William Golding
38. Wrote The Outsiders
Lord Byron
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Charlotte Bronte
S.E. Hinton
39. 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
Ray Bradbury
Zora Neale Hurston
Jane Eyre
40. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Mark Twain
Toni Morrison
JD Salinger
Ralph Waldo Emerson
41. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Daniel Defoe
Sylvia Plath
Aphra Behn
Scott O'Dell
42. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
James Joyce
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
'Civil Disobedience'
Christopher Paul Curtis
43. 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
Crime and Punishment
William Golding
The Joy Luck Club
Geoffrey Chaucer
44. Wrote Little Women; American novelist
Ernest Hemingway
Alice In Wonderland
Holes
Louisa May Alcott
45. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Avi
Washington Irving
46. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
Mildred Taylor
The Bell Jar
TS Eliot
Ester Forbes
47. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
To Kill a Mockingbird
Daniel Defoe
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
48. 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
Frankenstein
Ben Mikaelson
Ray Bradbury
Nancy Farmer
49. 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
S.E. Hinton
Louis Sacher
Ray Bradbury
Farenheit 451
50. Wrote Roll of Thunder
'Self - Reliance'
Alice Walker
The Pigman
Mildred Taylor