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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote Shiloh
Sylvia Plath
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Caroline Cooney
Stephen Crane
2. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Aurora Leigh
Maya Angelou
Sonnet 18
William Golding
3. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Elie Wiesel
Wendy Towle
Johann David Wyss
JD Salinger
4. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Paul Zindel
Anne Bradstreet
JD Salinger
Johann David Wyss
5. 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
The Catcher in the Rye
Farenheit 451
JD Salinger
The Red Badge of Courage
6. Wrote Jane Eyre
Lord of the Flies
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Charlotte Bronte
Langston Hughes
7. Wrote The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton
Anne Bradstreet
Elizabeth George Speare
Robert Cormier
8. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
Sharon Creech
Geoffrey Chaucer
Jean Craighead George
Little Women
9. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
Beowulf
Mildred Taylor
Robert Cormier
JD Salinger
10. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
Carl Hiaason
EB White
Christopher Paul Curtis
The Great Gatsby
11. 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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12. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Oscar Wilde
Ruth Avi
Paul Zindel
The Aeneid
13. 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
Lewis Carroll
Johann David Wyss
Langston Hughes
Anne Frank
14. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
John Keats
Louis Sacher
The Red Badge of Courage
Jerry Spinelli
15. 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
Anne Bradstreet
Emily Dickinson
Macbeth
The Picture of Dorian Gray
16. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
The Catcher in the Rye
Ruth Avi
To Kill a Mockingbird
Louisa May Alcott
17. Wrote Roll of Thunder
Carl Hiaason
Leo Tolstoy
'Self - Reliance'
Mildred Taylor
18. Wrote Sounder
George Orwell
Jane Austen
Caroline Cooney
William Armstrong
19. 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'
Ernest Hemingway
Lois Lowry
Jane Austen
Elie Wiesel
20. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
William Wordsworth
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville
The Giver
21. Wrote The House on Mango Street
Scott O'Dell
Sandra Cisneros
Jack London
Richard Adams
22. 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;
The Giver
William Butler Yeats
Mark Twain
Stephen Crane
23. 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
Louis Sacher
'Civil Disobedience'
Their Eyes Were Watching God
24. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Edgar Allan Poe
Avi
Jack London
Countee Cullen
25. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Mildred Taylor
Amy Tan
Herman Melville
Macbeth
26. 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
Frankenstein
'In Reference to her Children'
Christopher Marlowe
'Self - Reliance'
27. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
Harper Lee
Anna Karenina
William Wordsworth
Jack London
28. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Mary Downing Hahn
Alice In Wonderland
Lois Lowry
Emily Dickinson
29. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
Avi
Kate Chopin
Lewis Carroll
Nathaniel Hawthorne
30. 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
F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Wordsworth
James Joyce
Sandra Cisneros
31. 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
Sharon Creech
William Shakespeare
Not Without Laughter
Anna Karenina
32. Wrote Holes
Elie Wiesel
Edith Wharton
Louis Sacher
Jane Austen
33. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Willa Cather
Beowulf
Sharon Creech
EB White
34. Wrote The Yearling
Kate Dicamillo
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Langston Hughes
Frankenstein
35. Wrote Ethan Frome
John Keats
Edith Wharton
Ray Bradbury
Amy Tan
36. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Oscar Wilde
Christopher Paul Curtis
Anne Bradstreet
Alice Walker
37. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Christopher Marlowe
Helen Keller
The Red Badge of Courage
38. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
HG Wells
Not Without Laughter
The Giver
Aphra Behn
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
Virgil
Frankenstein
The Outsiders
Helen Keller
40. 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
Robinson Crusoe
Little Women
Daniel Defoe
Their Eyes Were Watching God
41. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism
Lord Byron
The Catcher in the Rye
Lewis Carroll
Anna Karenina
42. A group of Chinese mothers and their American - born daughters struggle to communicate and understand each other; four families dipicted Woo - Jong - Hsu - and St. Clair
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
The Joy Luck Club
Gary Paulson
SE Hinton
43. heroic fantasy novel about a small group of British rabbits; Fiver - a young runt rabbit who is a seer - receives a frightening vision of his warren's imminent destruction
Watership Down
JRR Tolkein
Richard Adams
Washington Irving
44. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Scott O'Dell
Little Women
Elie Wiesel
Leo Tolstoy
45. Wrote Out of the Dust
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Louisa May Alcott
Moby Dick
Karen Hesse
46. 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
Herman Melville
The Catcher in the Rye
Their Eyes Were Watching God
'Civil Disobedience'
47. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Lord of the Flies
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alice Walker
Nancy Farmer
48. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
Gary Paulson
Anne Bradstreet
Katherine Patterson
Frederick Douglass
49. 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
Walter Dean Myers
Beowulf
Crime and Punishment
Caroline Cooney
50. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
Jerry Spinelli
Geoffrey Chaucer
Not Without Laughter
Karen Hesse