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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. 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 Aeneid
Farenheit 451
The Outsiders
Geoffrey Chaucer
2. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
David Copperfield
Patricia Maclachlan
Holes
Alice In Wonderland
3. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Edgar Allan Poe
Paul Zindel
Aphra Behn
Ruth Avi
4. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
Virgil
Walter Dean Myers
Mary Shelley
Nathaniel Hawthorne
5. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
Ben Mikaelson
Anna Karenina
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Moby Dick
6. 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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7. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Scott O'Dell
Aphra Behn
'Civil Disobedience'
Anna Karenina
8. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
The Joy Luck Club
Charles Dickens
Elizabeth George Speare
Scott O'Dell
9. Wrote Hatchet
Charles Dickens
Gary Paulson
Anne Bradstreet
Henry David Thoreau
10. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Alice Walker
The Pigman
Ray Bradbury
Mary Shelley
11. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
'In Reference to her Children'
Frederick Douglass
Ester Forbes
Mark Twain
12. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Sharon Creech
Kate Dicamillo
Herman Melville
George Orwell
13. 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'
'Self - Reliance'
'Civil Disobedience'
Ernest Hemingway
HG Wells
14. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
The Outsiders
George Orwell
EB White
Watership Down
15. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Little Women
Nancy Farmer
Louis Sacher
Alice Walker
16. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
Elie Wiesel
Geoffrey Chaucer
John Keats
'Self - Reliance'
17. Wrote Hoot
The Outsiders
Alice Walker
Carl Hiaason
Paul Zindel
18. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Anna Karenina
Emily Dickinson
HG Wells
Mildred Taylor
19. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe
Christopher Paul Curtis
Beloved
Lewis Carroll
Virginia Woolf
20. Wrote Sonnet 18 - Hamlet - and Macbeth; greatest playwright who ever lived - prolific poet - known for sonnets
Madeline L'Engle
Their Eyes Were Watching God
William Shakespeare
Charlotte Bronte
21. 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
The Call of the Wild
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1984
22. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
Sandra Cisneros
Oscar Wilde
Kate Dicamillo
Ralph Waldo Emerson
23. Wrote Johnny Tremain
Ruth Avi
Kate Dicamillo
Ester Forbes
Helen Keller
24. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
'In Reference to her Children'
Anne Bradstreet
Kate Chopin
F. Scott Fitzgerald
25. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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26. Wrote Watership Down
The Outsiders
Richard Adams
William Butler Yeats
Christopher Marlowe
27. 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
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Patricia Maclachlan
The Giver
Madeline L'Engle
28. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
JD Salinger
Aurora Leigh
Watership Down
Willa Cather
29. Wrote Doctor Faustus
Farenheit 451
Zora Neale Hurston
Sonnet 18
Christopher Marlowe
30. Wrote The Lion - the Witch - and the Wardrobe
CS Lewis
Mary Shelley
Frederick Douglass
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
31. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Holes
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Daniel Defoe
Maya Angelou
32. 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
Animal Farm
Kate Chopin
Paul Zindel
Anna Karenina
33. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker
William Armstrong
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Aphra Behn
Aurora Leigh
34. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
1984
Ester Forbes
Lois Lowry
John Keats
35. Wrote The Pigman
Paul Zindel
Mildred Taylor
Lois Lowry
Sylvia Plath
36. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Mary Downing Hahn
Aurora Leigh
To Kill a Mockingbird
William Wordsworth
37. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Beloved
Jean Craighead George
Mildred Taylor
William Butler Yeats
38. 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
William Shakespeare
Virginia Woolf
1984
39. 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
Zora Neale Hurston
Washington Irving
Avi
40. 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
JD Salinger
Beowulf
Charles Dickens
The Giver
41. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lord Byron
HG Wells
Henry David Thoreau
42. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Sandra Cisneros
Oscar Wilde
The Catcher in the Rye
Louisa May Alcott
43. An impoverished young woman (Jane) struggles to maintain her autonomy in the face of oppression - prejudice - and love; Gothic novel - bildungsroman - social portest novel
Mark Twain
Leo Tolstoy
Jane Eyre
CS Lewis
44. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Johann David Wyss
Sonnet 18
Louisa May Alcott
45. Wrote 'Any Human to Another -' 'Color -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl;' American Romantic poet; leading African - American poets of his time; associated with generation of poets of the Harlem Renaissance
Countee Cullen
Mildred Taylor
The Outsiders
Daniel Defoe
46. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
SE Hinton
Farenheit 451
Charles Dickens
William Golding
47. 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
Virgil
Scott O'Dell
David Copperfield
48. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
Alice Walker
Louis Sacher
Mary Shelley
Little Women
49. Wrote Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Mansfield Park - et al.
SE Hinton
Langston Hughes
Jane Austen
The Great Gatsby
50. Wrote The Outsiders
Anne Bradstreet
S.E. Hinton
Virginia Woolf
EB White