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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
Robert Frost
Jack London
Aurora Leigh
Anne Frank
2. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Emily Bronte
Oscar Wilde
Louisa May Alcott
Emily Dickinson
3. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
William Armstrong
Jerry Spinelli
Herman Melville
Washington Irving
4. Wrote Watership Down
Not Without Laughter
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wendy Towle
Richard Adams
5. Wrote Sounder
William Armstrong
Christopher Marlowe
Virgil
Nancy Farmer
6. Wrote Johnny Tremain
Edith Wharton
Ester Forbes
Willa Cather
The Joy Luck Club
7. Wrote Hatchet
Gary Paulson
John Keats
Maya Angelou
SE Hinton
8. Wrote Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Mansfield Park - et al.
Emily Bronte
Leo Tolstoy
Jane Austen
'Self - Reliance'
9. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
TS Eliot
JRR Tolkein
The Outsiders
Mary Downing Hahn
10. Wrote The Pigman
Paul Zindel
Robert Frost
To Kill a Mockingbird
Virgil
11. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Farenheit 451
Little Women
Edgar Allan Poe
12. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
The Aeneid
HG Wells
Walt Whitman
Sylvia Plath
13. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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14. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty
Louis Sacher
Herman Melville
Lois Lowry
Lord of the Flies
15. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
Avi
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Little Women
Lois Lowry
16. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism
Oscar Wilde
Beloved
Lord Byron
Walt Whitman
17. Wrote Wuthering Heights
Madeline L'Engle
Kate Dicamillo
William Shakespeare
Emily Bronte
18. Wrote The Hobbit
Kate Chopin
Walt Whitman
Louis Sacher
JRR Tolkein
19. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Countee Cullen
Anne Frank
Anna Karenina
The Call of the Wild
20. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
Robert Frost
Maya Angelou
Sandra Cisneros
Willa Cather
21. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
Emily Dickinson
John Keats
George Orwell
Little Women
22. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
Ester Forbes
Elie Wiesel
Frederick Douglass
James Joyce
23. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Ray Bradbury
Walter Dean Myers
Caroline Cooney
Nathaniel Hawthorne
24. Wrote The Awakening - The Storm; feminist author of the 20th century; born in St. Louis - Missouri
Kate Chopin
The Catcher in the Rye
Mildred Taylor
Farenheit 451
25. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Aphra Behn
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Toni Morrison
Avi
26. '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
Karen Hesse
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Sonnet 18
27. 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
Emily Bronte
Willa Cather
SE Hinton
28. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Nathaniel Hawthorne
William Wordsworth
Farenheit 451
29. 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
Oscar Wilde
Walter Dean Myers
Not Without Laughter
30. 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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31. In an attempt to prove a theory - a student (Raskolnikov) murders two women - after which he suffers greatly from guilt and worry; psychological drama - setting in the 1860s
Ruth Avi
Henry David Thoreau
Crime and Punishment
Anne Bradstreet
32. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ernest Hemingway
Daniel Defoe
Nancy Farmer
33. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
Anne Bradstreet
HG Wells
1984
TS Eliot
34. 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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35. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Alice In Wonderland
Ray Bradbury
Aphra Behn
S.E. Hinton
36. 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
Katherine Patterson
Macbeth
Little Women
37. Wrote Charlotte's Web
Patricia Maclachlan
Beowulf
Percy Bysshe Shelley
EB White
38. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Elie Wiesel
The Red Badge of Courage
Wendy Towle
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
39. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
Macbeth
Mildred Taylor
Stephen Crane
Katherine Patterson
40. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Herman Melville
Helen Keller
Daniel Defoe
Fyodor Dostoevsky
41. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
David Copperfield
Edgar Allan Poe
Patricia Maclachlan
Charlotte Bronte
42. Wrote The Outsiders
SE Hinton
The Catcher in the Rye
'Civil Disobedience'
Madeline L'Engle
43. Wrote Little Women; American novelist
Anne Bradstreet
Edgar Allan Poe
William Wordsworth
Louisa May Alcott
44. 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
Virginia Woolf
Sonnet 18
The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
45. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
Ben Mikaelson
Oscar Wilde
TS Eliot
Edith Wharton
46. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Elizabeth George Speare
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Alice Walker
Lois Lowry
47. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Amy Tan
Sharon Creech
Aphra Behn
Harper Lee
48. 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
Moby Dick
JRR Tolkein
Lois Lowry
The Outsiders
49. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
Alice In Wonderland
Elizabeth George Speare
Farenheit 451
Johann David Wyss
50. Wrote Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton
Anne Frank
Daniel Defoe
Ralph Waldo Emerson