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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
George Orwell
Wendy Towle
Emily Dickinson
Leo Tolstoy
2. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
Walt Whitman
Leo Tolstoy
TS Eliot
Amy Tan
3. Wrote The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Avi
Lewis Carroll
Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. 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
Beowulf
Louisa May Alcott
Animal Farm
The Great Gatsby
5. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
Mary Shelley
Willa Cather
David Copperfield
HG Wells
6. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker
Ruth Avi
Scott O'Dell
Maya Angelou
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
Frederick Douglass
Walter Dean Myers
Scott O'Dell
Christopher Marlowe
9. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
The Aeneid
Crime and Punishment
Jean Craighead George
Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. Wrote Maniac Magee
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Johann David Wyss
Jerry Spinelli
'Self - Reliance'
11. Wrote The Outsiders
Gary Paulson
The Call of the Wild
The Giver
S.E. Hinton
12. 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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13. Wrote Hatchet
James Joyce
Ben Mikaelson
Harper Lee
Gary Paulson
14. 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
Toni Morrison
Elie Wiesel
Macbeth
15. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
Sonnet 18
Emily Dickinson
The Red Badge of Courage
16. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
Frederick Douglass
Aurora Leigh
William Butler Yeats
'Self - Reliance'
17. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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18. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
Beowulf
EB White
Little Women
Sylvia Plath
19. 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
Robinson Crusoe
Frederick Douglass
Percy Bysshe Shelley
William Shakespeare
20. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mary Downing Hahn
The Red Badge of Courage
Fyodor Dostoevsky
21. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Not Without Laughter
Walt Whitman
William Golding
Avi
22. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
Richard Adams
Ray Bradbury
JD Salinger
David Copperfield
23. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
Langston Hughes
Harper Lee
Helen Keller
JD Salinger
24. Wrote Ethan Frome
EB White
The Aeneid
Emily Bronte
Edith Wharton
25. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Aurora Leigh
Oscar Wilde
Leo Tolstoy
Caroline Cooney
26. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
'Self - Reliance'
Anne Bradstreet
Toni Morrison
Kate Dicamillo
27. 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
Willa Cather
Elizabeth George Speare
28. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Farenheit 451
Carl Hiaason
Anna Karenina
Walt Whitman
29. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Karen Hesse
Carl Hiaason
JD Salinger
30. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Mary Shelley
Crime and Punishment
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Mildred Taylor
31. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
Edith Wharton
EB White
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Lewis Carroll
32. 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
Fyodor Dostoevsky
1984
Holes
Elie Wiesel
33. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Patterson
Karen Hesse
Lord Byron
Watership Down
34. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Alice Walker
Sharon Creech
JD Salinger
Amy Tan
35. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Johann David Wyss
Geoffrey Chaucer
S.E. Hinton
36. Wrote Roll of Thunder
Jean Craighead George
Mildred Taylor
Lord Byron
Holes
37. After two marriages to oppressive men - a woman (Janie Crawford) finds temporary happiness with a husband twelve years her junior; themes: the illusion of power - non - necessity of relationships - folkloric quality of religion
Gary Paulson
Kate Chopin
Elizabeth George Speare
Their Eyes Were Watching God
38. Wrote Jane Eyre
The Pigman
Elizabeth George Speare
Charlotte Bronte
Edgar Allan Poe
39. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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40. Wrote The Chocolate War
Watership Down
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Robert Cormier
The Aeneid
41. 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
Paul Zindel
James Joyce
Walt Whitman
42. Wrote Watership Down
Toni Morrison
Elizabeth George Speare
Richard Adams
Emily Bronte
43. 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
Christopher Marlowe
1984
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nathaniel Hawthorne
44. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
Nancy Farmer
HG Wells
Maya Angelou
Their Eyes Were Watching God
45. Wrote The Outsiders
Fyodor Dostoevsky
William Butler Yeats
Walt Whitman
SE Hinton
46. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Mary Shelley
Christopher Paul Curtis
Mildred Taylor
Mary Downing Hahn
47. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
William Golding
Mildred Taylor
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sylvia Plath
48. 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
James Joyce
The Catcher in the Rye
Lord Byron
Virginia Woolf
49. Wrote The House on Mango Street
Geoffrey Chaucer
Sandra Cisneros
Edith Wharton
Jane Austen
50. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Ruth Avi
JRR Tolkein
Lewis Carroll
Patricia Maclachlan