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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. 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
Crime and Punishment
Sylvia Plath
Washington Irving
Zora Neale Hurston
2. Wrote The Hobbit
Jerry Spinelli
The Bell Jar
JRR Tolkein
'In Reference to her Children'
3. Wrote The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Stephen Crane
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lord of the Flies
4. 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
Scott O'Dell
The Pigman
Lois Lowry
Johann David Wyss
5. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
'Self - Reliance'
Jean Craighead George
The Great Gatsby
Richard Adams
6. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
1984
Patricia Maclachlan
Charles Dickens
Anna Karenina
7. In a futuristic America - a firefighter (Guy Montag) decides to buck society - stop burning books - and start seeking knowledge; themes: censorship - knowledge vs. ignorance - religion as a knowledge giver
S.E. Hinton
Farenheit 451
William Golding
Richard Adams
8. 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
Gary Paulson
'In Reference to her Children'
Emily Dickinson
David Copperfield
9. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
Sharon Creech
Ben Mikaelson
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
JRR Tolkein
10. 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
JD Salinger
Nancy Farmer
Ernest Hemingway
Robinson Crusoe
11. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Anne Bradstreet
John Keats
Caroline Cooney
James Joyce
12. 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
Anna Karenina
Watership Down
Nancy Farmer
Jerry Spinelli
13. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
Crime and Punishment
Charlotte Bronte
The Picture of Dorian Gray
William Shakespeare
14. Wrote Roll of Thunder
Mildred Taylor
Not Without Laughter
Harper Lee
TS Eliot
15. Wrote The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros
William Wordsworth
Louisa May Alcott
JD Salinger
16. 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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17. Wrote Night
William Golding
Elie Wiesel
Frankenstein
The Aeneid
18. 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.
William Shakespeare
The Aeneid
Robinson Crusoe
The Bell Jar
19. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
The Giver
William Armstrong
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Not Without Laughter
20. 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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21. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
Mary Shelley
Frederick Douglass
Washington Irving
Aurora Leigh
22. A pampered dog (Buck) adjusts to the harsh realities of life in the North as he struggles with his recovered wild instincts and finds a master (John Thorton) who treats him right; novel - adventure story - setting late 1890s
Christopher Marlowe
Jane Eyre
The Call of the Wild
Madeline L'Engle
23. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
The Aeneid
David Copperfield
Elizabeth George Speare
To Kill a Mockingbird
24. An impoverished young woman (Jane) struggles to maintain her autonomy in the face of oppression - prejudice - and love; Gothic novel - bildungsroman - social portest novel
Not Without Laughter
Jane Eyre
Paul Zindel
Herman Melville
25. Wrote Watership Down
Richard Adams
Edgar Allan Poe
Anne Bradstreet
The Aeneid
26. Wrote Wuthering Heights
Avi
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Emily Bronte
Ruth Avi
27. 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
Sandra Cisneros
Wendy Towle
Ray Bradbury
Stephen Crane
28. Wrote Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe
Moby Dick
S.E. Hinton
Their Eyes Were Watching God
29. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Lewis Carroll
Leo Tolstoy
Jerry Spinelli
Charles Dickens
30. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
Louisa May Alcott
Lord of the Flies
Nancy Farmer
Washington Irving
31. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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32. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
Daniel Defoe
The Bell Jar
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Helen Keller
33. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
CS Lewis
Virgil
Anne Frank
Amy Tan
34. After surviving a poverty - stricken childhood - the death of his mother - a cruel stepfather - and an unfortunate first marriage - a boys finds success as a writer; themes: plight of the weak - importance of equality in marriage - dangers of wealth
Oscar Wilde
James Joyce
David Copperfield
Their Eyes Were Watching God
35. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
Jack London
William Armstrong
William Butler Yeats
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
36. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
Oscar Wilde
Virgil
Little Women
Katherine Patterson
37. 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
JD Salinger
Animal Farm
To Kill a Mockingbird
Countee Cullen
38. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
JD Salinger
The Joy Luck Club
Emily Dickinson
Johann David Wyss
39. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
Macbeth
JD Salinger
Lord Byron
William Golding
40. Wrote Sounder
Aurora Leigh
William Armstrong
CS Lewis
Mary Downing Hahn
41. Wrote The Chocolate War
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Emily Dickinson
Robert Cormier
Willa Cather
42. 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
Jane Eyre
Jane Austen
Edith Wharton
43. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
HG Wells
Louis Sacher
Anne Bradstreet
Sandra Cisneros
44. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Washington Irving
Farenheit 451
Sandra Cisneros
45. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
Zora Neale Hurston
The Pigman
S.E. Hinton
Percy Bysshe Shelley
46. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Ray Bradbury
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Scott O'Dell
The Call of the Wild
47. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
Little Women
Christopher Marlowe
Lord of the Flies
Ray Bradbury
48. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Madeline L'Engle
Ruth Avi
Karen Hesse
Aphra Behn
49. Wrote Maniac Magee
Jerry Spinelli
Elizabeth George Speare
Anne Frank
Wendy Towle
50. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
The Red Badge of Courage
William Golding
Moby Dick
Patricia Maclachlan