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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. 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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2. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
Kate Chopin
Crime and Punishment
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Willa Cather
3. Wrote The Aeneid
Virgil
Moby Dick
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Carl Hiaason
4. 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
Madeline L'Engle
Stephen Crane
Harper Lee
Ester Forbes
5. Wrote The Outsiders
EB White
Robert Frost
Wendy Towle
S.E. Hinton
6. Wrote Charlotte's Web
Henry David Thoreau
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
EB White
Not Without Laughter
7. Wrote The Weary Blues - The Ways of White Folks - and Not Without Laughter; American poet - novelist - playwright - short story writer - and columnist; early innovator for literary art known as jazz poetry; best known for work during Harlem Renaissan
Robinson Crusoe
Edgar Allan Poe
Langston Hughes
Robert Cormier
8. 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
John Keats
JD Salinger
1984
Animal Farm
9. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
Henry David Thoreau
EB White
JD Salinger
Countee Cullen
10. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism
Lord Byron
Robert Frost
Moby Dick
Scott O'Dell
11. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Emily Bronte
Lois Lowry
Carl Hiaason
The Catcher in the Rye
12. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
Mildred Taylor
Zora Neale Hurston
Lord of the Flies
Sylvia Plath
13. 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
Beowulf
The Catcher in the Rye
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Walt Whitman
14. 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
Holes
Paul Zindel
Moby Dick
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
15. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
JD Salinger
Countee Cullen
William Butler Yeats
The Call of the Wild
16. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
David Copperfield
John Keats
Toni Morrison
HG Wells
17. Wrote Out of the Dust
JD Salinger
Karen Hesse
S.E. Hinton
HG Wells
18. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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19. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
William Golding
The Picture of Dorian Gray
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mark Twain
20. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Ruth Avi
Willa Cather
Scott O'Dell
Sharon Creech
21. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Henry David Thoreau
The Joy Luck Club
Leo Tolstoy
SE Hinton
22. Wrote Night
Lord Byron
Elie Wiesel
Alice Walker
Paul Zindel
23. 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
Edgar Allan Poe
Sonnet 18
The Joy Luck Club
Oscar Wilde
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. 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
Robinson Crusoe
Kate Chopin
The Pigman
Helen Keller
26. 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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27. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
Sharon Creech
Sandra Cisneros
Jack London
Robert Cormier
28. 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
William Shakespeare
John Keats
Lewis Carroll
The Giver
29. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Ester Forbes
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mary Shelley
Langston Hughes
30. Wrote 'Wild Nights -- Wild Nights!;' 'I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died -' and 'Because I Could Not Stop For Death --;' 19th century poet; major themes: flowers/gardens - the master poems - morbidity - gospel poems - the undiscovered continent; irregula
Macbeth
Oscar Wilde
Louisa May Alcott
Emily Dickinson
31. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Katherine Patterson
Mary Shelley
George Orwell
Fyodor Dostoevsky
32. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Jerry Spinelli
Sandra Cisneros
Caroline Cooney
The Joy Luck Club
33. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
'In Reference to her Children'
Emily Bronte
The Great Gatsby
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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
Sonnet 18
Langston Hughes
Gary Paulson
Amy Tan
35. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Not Without Laughter
Charles Dickens
Sharon Creech
Emily Dickinson
36. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Charlotte Bronte
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Maya Angelou
37. Wrote The Outsiders
SE Hinton
Animal Farm
Charles Dickens
William Butler Yeats
38. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
Avi
Aurora Leigh
The Outsiders
Patricia Maclachlan
39. Wrote Jane Eyre
Mildred Taylor
Sharon Creech
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Charlotte Bronte
40. Wrote The Hobbit
Beloved
The Aeneid
Louisa May Alcott
JRR Tolkein
41. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
Christopher Paul Curtis
JD Salinger
Scott O'Dell
Alice In Wonderland
42. Wrote The Chocolate War
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Bell Jar
TS Eliot
Robert Cormier
43. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
Washington Irving
Little Women
Robert Cormier
William Golding
44. 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.
David Copperfield
The Aeneid
Wendy Towle
Emily Bronte
45. 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
Charlotte Bronte
1984
William Wordsworth
Ben Mikaelson
46. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Helen Keller
The Red Badge of Courage
Henry David Thoreau
47. Wrote Johnny Tremain
Ruth Avi
Jean Craighead George
Moby Dick
Ester Forbes
48. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird; American author
Jack London
Katherine Patterson
Harper Lee
The Red Badge of Courage
49. Wrote Sonnet 18 - Hamlet - and Macbeth; greatest playwright who ever lived - prolific poet - known for sonnets
Kate Dicamillo
William Shakespeare
Moby Dick
Jerry Spinelli
50. Wrote The Yearling
Walt Whitman
EB White
Carl Hiaason
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling