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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
Mildred Taylor
Christopher Paul Curtis
JRR Tolkein
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
2. 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
Aurora Leigh
Beowulf
Maya Angelou
Lord of the Flies
3. Wrote Night
Elie Wiesel
Christopher Paul Curtis
John Keats
Walter Dean Myers
4. Wrote The Aeneid
SE Hinton
Kate Dicamillo
Virgil
Sonnet 18
5. An impoverished young woman (Jane) struggles to maintain her autonomy in the face of oppression - prejudice - and love; Gothic novel - bildungsroman - social portest novel
JRR Tolkein
Walter Dean Myers
Jane Eyre
Harper Lee
6. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Lois Lowry
Louis Sacher
Nancy Farmer
John Keats
7. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Emily Dickinson
Daniel Defoe
Louisa May Alcott
Elizabeth George Speare
8. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Christopher Paul Curtis
Alice Walker
Anna Karenina
JD Salinger
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
Karen Hesse
Aurora Leigh
James Joyce
Macbeth
10. 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
Jack London
Emily Dickinson
'Self - Reliance'
Frankenstein
11. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Maya Angelou
Elie Wiesel
Geoffrey Chaucer
Lord of the Flies
12. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Mildred Taylor
The Bell Jar
Mark Twain
13. The protagonist of the story is a boy named Sandy whose family must deal with a variety of struggles imposed upon them due to their race and class in society in addition to relating to one another
Not Without Laughter
The Bell Jar
David Copperfield
Nathaniel Hawthorne
14. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mary Downing Hahn
Caroline Cooney
Virginia Woolf
15. 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
Maya Angelou
Wendy Towle
16. 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
Henry David Thoreau
Geoffrey Chaucer
Lewis Carroll
Moby Dick
17. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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18. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird; American author
Karen Hesse
Elizabeth George Speare
Harper Lee
The Aeneid
19. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Ray Bradbury
Jerry Spinelli
Geoffrey Chaucer
William Butler Yeats
20. 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.
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Aeneid
Kate Chopin
21. 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
The Outsiders
The Aeneid
JD Salinger
William Butler Yeats
22. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
Elie Wiesel
Ben Mikaelson
Mildred Taylor
JRR Tolkein
23. Wrote The Great Gatsby
Edgar Allan Poe
Emily Bronte
Jean Craighead George
F. Scott Fitzgerald
24. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
The Great Gatsby
The Catcher in the Rye
Toni Morrison
The Picture of Dorian Gray
25. 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
Wendy Towle
Aphra Behn
Animal Farm
William Wordsworth
26. Wrote The Outsiders
Ester Forbes
'In Reference to her Children'
The Catcher in the Rye
SE Hinton
27. 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
The Joy Luck Club
Robert Frost
Caroline Cooney
Their Eyes Were Watching God
28. Wrote Ethan Frome
Louisa May Alcott
Jerry Spinelli
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Edith Wharton
29. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Jerry Spinelli
Robinson Crusoe
Anna Karenina
F. Scott Fitzgerald
30. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
Sylvia Plath
Mary Shelley
'Civil Disobedience'
Kate Dicamillo
31. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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32. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Walt Whitman
Ray Bradbury
33. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
Mary Downing Hahn
Alice In Wonderland
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ray Bradbury
34. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
The Aeneid
George Orwell
Virginia Woolf
'Self - Reliance'
35. '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
Katherine Patterson
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Sonnet 18
Toni Morrison
36. Wrote Doctor Faustus
Farenheit 451
Christopher Marlowe
Edgar Allan Poe
Their Eyes Were Watching God
37. Wrote Holes
Louis Sacher
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Johann David Wyss
Lord of the Flies
38. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
JD Salinger
Virgil
Geoffrey Chaucer
Oscar Wilde
39. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
Alice Walker
Zora Neale Hurston
Kate Dicamillo
Harper Lee
40. 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
Richard Adams
Alice Walker
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Pigman
41. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
JRR Tolkein
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Johann David Wyss
James Joyce
42. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
Anne Bradstreet
'In Reference to her Children'
Percy Bysshe Shelley
HG Wells
43. Wrote Hoot
Holes
Crime and Punishment
Carl Hiaason
Fyodor Dostoevsky
44. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Toni Morrison
Geoffrey Chaucer
William Golding
Mark Twain
45. 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
Katherine Patterson
Ruth Avi
Animal Farm
Richard Adams
46. Wrote Johnny Tremain
Ester Forbes
Not Without Laughter
Avi
Nathaniel Hawthorne
47. Wrote The Pigman
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Paul Zindel
Mildred Taylor
Jerry Spinelli
48. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
Elizabeth George Speare
Louis Sacher
The Call of the Wild
Aurora Leigh
49. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
David Copperfield
Frederick Douglass
Kate Dicamillo
Amy Tan
50. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Beowulf
Edgar Allan Poe
Aphra Behn
Daniel Defoe
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