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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Virgil
Amy Tan
The Call of the Wild
2. Wrote The Aeneid
Virgil
Charlotte Bronte
Amy Tan
Herman Melville
3. 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
Animal Farm
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Helen Keller
David Copperfield
4. Wrote Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Mansfield Park - et al.
Mildred Taylor
Jane Austen
Lois Lowry
Leo Tolstoy
5. Wrote The Awakening - The Storm; feminist author of the 20th century; born in St. Louis - Missouri
Kate Chopin
Christopher Marlowe
Ernest Hemingway
Madeline L'Engle
6. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
1984
Walt Whitman
Edith Wharton
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
7. 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
Not Without Laughter
Frederick Douglass
Herman Melville
The Joy Luck Club
8. 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
Washington Irving
Holes
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Paul Zindel
9. 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
Caroline Cooney
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Anne Frank
10. Wrote The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton
Gary Paulson
Walter Dean Myers
Wendy Towle
11. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
Madeline L'Engle
Jack London
Edgar Allan Poe
Louisa May Alcott
12. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
Robinson Crusoe
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Great Gatsby
Ralph Waldo Emerson
13. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
SE Hinton
Kate Dicamillo
The Joy Luck Club
Frankenstein
14. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
Geoffrey Chaucer
Louis Sacher
Aurora Leigh
Jack London
15. Wrote Shiloh
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Lewis Carroll
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Robert Frost
16. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
Sylvia Plath
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walt Whitman
Ray Bradbury
17. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
William Butler Yeats
William Shakespeare
Frankenstein
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
18. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
JD Salinger
Anna Karenina
Washington Irving
Wendy Towle
19. Wrote The Yearling
EB White
Charlotte Bronte
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Washington Irving
20. 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.
Beowulf
Amy Tan
The Aeneid
The Pigman
21. 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
Mary Shelley
Ray Bradbury
Countee Cullen
Not Without Laughter
22. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Countee Cullen
SE Hinton
Mark Twain
Sharon Creech
23. Wrote The Glory Field
Mark Twain
Walter Dean Myers
Scott O'Dell
Emily Bronte
24. Wrote 'The Road Not Taken;' American poet; highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech; won Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry four times
The Great Gatsby
James Joyce
Anne Frank
Robert Frost
25. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
The Pigman
Zora Neale Hurston
Lewis Carroll
Percy Bysshe Shelley
26. 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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27. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
Toni Morrison
Virgil
Willa Cather
Ester Forbes
28. Wrote The Pigman
Paul Zindel
Aurora Leigh
William Butler Yeats
TS Eliot
29. Wrote Hatchet
Johann David Wyss
Gary Paulson
Not Without Laughter
TS Eliot
30. 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
Kate Chopin
The Pigman
JD Salinger
Moby Dick
31. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Mark Twain
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
David Copperfield
Leo Tolstoy
32. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Aurora Leigh
Louisa May Alcott
Karen Hesse
Avi
33. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Robert Frost
Holes
HG Wells
34. 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
Aphra Behn
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Countee Cullen
35. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Caroline Cooney
Henry David Thoreau
36. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Kate Dicamillo
Christopher Marlowe
Robert Frost
37. 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
Beowulf
Stephen Crane
Their Eyes Were Watching God
David Copperfield
38. 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
Aurora Leigh
Johann David Wyss
The Joy Luck Club
The Call of the Wild
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
Ruth Avi
Stephen Crane
The Outsiders
Lewis Carroll
40. 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'
Richard Adams
Ernest Hemingway
Leo Tolstoy
Sonnet 18
41. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
Washington Irving
Madeline L'Engle
Edith Wharton
Patricia Maclachlan
42. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Alice In Wonderland
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Daniel Defoe
43. 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
Sonnet 18
Geoffrey Chaucer
Frankenstein
Farenheit 451
44. Wrote Charlotte's Web
Sharon Creech
Frankenstein
EB White
Herman Melville
45. 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
Langston Hughes
Robinson Crusoe
JRR Tolkein
46. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Jane Eyre
Johann David Wyss
Lewis Carroll
Alice Walker
47. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Ray Bradbury
Charlotte Bronte
'Self - Reliance'
Ruth Avi
48. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
Virgil
Walter Dean Myers
Holes
Helen Keller
49. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
Ester Forbes
'In Reference to her Children'
The Aeneid
Elizabeth George Speare
50. Wrote Ethan Frome
Watership Down
Mildred Taylor
Edith Wharton
Countee Cullen
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