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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. An impoverished young woman (Jane) struggles to maintain her autonomy in the face of oppression - prejudice - and love; Gothic novel - bildungsroman - social portest novel
Jane Eyre
Willa Cather
The Bell Jar
Crime and Punishment
2. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
Emily Bronte
William Armstrong
Willa Cather
The Catcher in the Rye
3. Wrote The Outsiders
SE Hinton
David Copperfield
JD Salinger
S.E. Hinton
4. 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
S.E. Hinton
Edgar Allan Poe
Amy Tan
The Pigman
5. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
Johann David Wyss
Christopher Paul Curtis
Patricia Maclachlan
TS Eliot
6. Wrote Holes
To Kill a Mockingbird
Aphra Behn
Louis Sacher
Holes
7. 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'
The Call of the Wild
Ernest Hemingway
The Great Gatsby
William Shakespeare
8. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Emily Bronte
Louis Sacher
Elizabeth George Speare
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
9. 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;
Crime and Punishment
The Giver
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Jane Austen
10. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Walt Whitman
Mildred Taylor
Alice Walker
11. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
The Joy Luck Club
Carl Hiaason
Lewis Carroll
George Orwell
12. Wrote Charlotte's Web
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
John Keats
Mary Shelley
EB White
13. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe
Not Without Laughter
Beloved
Louisa May Alcott
William Wordsworth
14. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Frederick Douglass
Christopher Marlowe
Anne Bradstreet
15. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
Alice In Wonderland
'Self - Reliance'
William Wordsworth
William Golding
16. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird; American author
Frankenstein
The Red Badge of Courage
Harper Lee
Jack London
17. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
Anne Bradstreet
Virginia Woolf
Moby Dick
Charles Dickens
18. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Leo Tolstoy
Ernest Hemingway
The Catcher in the Rye
19. Wrote Sounder
William Armstrong
Robinson Crusoe
Elie Wiesel
Ruth Avi
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.
The Joy Luck Club
The Red Badge of Courage
The Aeneid
Sandra Cisneros
21. Wrote Red Badge of Courage; American novelist - short story writer - poet - journalist - raised in NY and NJ; style and technique: naturalism - realism - impressionism; themes: ideals v. realities - spiritual crisis - fears
TS Eliot
Stephen Crane
Emily Dickinson
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
22. 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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23. 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
Walt Whitman
JRR Tolkein
Beowulf
Nathaniel Hawthorne
24. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Johann David Wyss
Virginia Woolf
Geoffrey Chaucer
Ben Mikaelson
25. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Virgil
John Keats
Jean Craighead George
William Golding
26. Wrote Doctor Faustus
Frederick Douglass
Christopher Marlowe
'Self - Reliance'
The Great Gatsby
27. Wrote The Aeneid
Virgil
Mary Downing Hahn
Christopher Marlowe
Emily Bronte
28. 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
Jerry Spinelli
Lord Byron
Kate Chopin
William Wordsworth
29. 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
Farenheit 451
The Catcher in the Rye
TS Eliot
Crime and Punishment
30. 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
JRR Tolkein
Farenheit 451
Henry David Thoreau
Animal Farm
31. Wrote The Glory Field
Walter Dean Myers
S.E. Hinton
Anne Bradstreet
Herman Melville
32. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Mary Downing Hahn
Louis Sacher
Charles Dickens
The Catcher in the Rye
33. Wrote The Outsiders
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Watership Down
SE Hinton
34. Wrote A Wrinkle in Time - A Swiftly Tilting Planet - A Wind in the Door - The Small Rain - 24 Days before Christmas
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35. 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
'In Reference to her Children'
Virginia Woolf
Washington Irving
Frankenstein
36. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
The Bell Jar
Stephen Crane
Caroline Cooney
37. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Moby Dick
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Emily Bronte
Avi
38. 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
Nancy Farmer
Anne Bradstreet
Robinson Crusoe
CS Lewis
39. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Jean Craighead George
Anna Karenina
JD Salinger
40. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
Sharon Creech
Johann David Wyss
The Catcher in the Rye
James Joyce
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
Virgil
Macbeth
The Aeneid
Mildred Taylor
42. '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
Elizabeth George Speare
James Joyce
Sonnet 18
Edgar Allan Poe
43. Wrote Out of the Dust
Karen Hesse
Madeline L'Engle
Amy Tan
Sharon Creech
44. Wrote Watership Down
EB White
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Richard Adams
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
45. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Emily Bronte
Wendy Towle
Ruth Avi
The Picture of Dorian Gray
46. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
JRR Tolkein
Kate Dicamillo
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Alice In Wonderland
47. Wrote Hatchet
'In Reference to her Children'
Amy Tan
Gary Paulson
Oscar Wilde
48. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Oscar Wilde
Harper Lee
Jean Craighead George
Amy Tan
49. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty
Lord of the Flies
Percy Bysshe Shelley
HG Wells
Amy Tan
50. 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
Katherine Patterson
'Civil Disobedience'
William Wordsworth
The Pigman
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