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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. 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
'Self - Reliance'
Toni Morrison
The Call of the Wild
Not Without Laughter
2. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
William Butler Yeats
Avi
Robert Cormier
The Picture of Dorian Gray
3. Wrote Sounder
Toni Morrison
William Armstrong
Karen Hesse
Charles Dickens
4. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty
Ben Mikaelson
Scott O'Dell
Lord of the Flies
Langston Hughes
5. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Caroline Cooney
Lord of the Flies
'Civil Disobedience'
Anne Frank
6. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
Elizabeth George Speare
Geoffrey Chaucer
Robert Frost
Herman Melville
7. 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
Virginia Woolf
Lord of the Flies
Edgar Allan Poe
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
8. 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
Harper Lee
Elie Wiesel
Macbeth
Robinson Crusoe
9. 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
David Copperfield
CS Lewis
Countee Cullen
The Picture of Dorian Gray
10. '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
George Orwell
William Wordsworth
The Catcher in the Rye
Sonnet 18
11. Wrote Wuthering Heights
Alice Walker
Virgil
Charles Dickens
Emily Bronte
12. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Catcher in the Rye
JRR Tolkein
Carl Hiaason
Alice Walker
13. 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
Toni Morrison
The Joy Luck Club
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Walter Dean Myers
14. 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
The Red Badge of Courage
Johann David Wyss
Crime and Punishment
Anne Bradstreet
15. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
The Catcher in the Rye
Countee Cullen
Richard Adams
Anne Bradstreet
16. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
Kate Chopin
Christopher Marlowe
Walt Whitman
Jane Austen
17. Wrote The Chocolate War
Toni Morrison
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robert Cormier
TS Eliot
18. 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
Farenheit 451
William Golding
Scott O'Dell
Mary Downing Hahn
19. 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.
Toni Morrison
The Aeneid
To Kill a Mockingbird
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
20. 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
Edgar Allan Poe
Aphra Behn
Beowulf
George Orwell
21. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
Alice In Wonderland
To Kill a Mockingbird
John Keats
Ben Mikaelson
22. Wrote The House on Mango Street
Harper Lee
Sandra Cisneros
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Outsiders
23. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
S.E. Hinton
Little Women
Henry David Thoreau
Maya Angelou
24. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Ray Bradbury
Ester Forbes
Jane Eyre
Aurora Leigh
25. 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
John Keats
The Red Badge of Courage
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Frost
26. 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
Sandra Cisneros
William Wordsworth
Toni Morrison
Jack London
27. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Leo Tolstoy
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Henry David Thoreau
Paul Zindel
28. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
David Copperfield
Daniel Defoe
Louisa May Alcott
Animal Farm
29. Wrote Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Elie Wiesel
Countee Cullen
The Aeneid
30. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
George Orwell
Johann David Wyss
Beowulf
Washington Irving
31. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
Ben Mikaelson
Charles Dickens
Beowulf
Mark Twain
32. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
Jane Austen
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Watership Down
Toni Morrison
33. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker
Caroline Cooney
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Farenheit 451
Walt Whitman
34. 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
Ernest Hemingway
Helen Keller
The Call of the Wild
Patricia Maclachlan
35. 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
The Bell Jar
The Outsiders
William Wordsworth
Their Eyes Were Watching God
36. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
Frederick Douglass
JD Salinger
EB White
Nancy Farmer
37. 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
Kate Chopin
Sharon Creech
Edgar Allan Poe
38. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism
Daniel Defoe
Lord Byron
Ernest Hemingway
Edgar Allan Poe
39. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
William Armstrong
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ruth Avi
Paul Zindel
40. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Crime and Punishment
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Joy Luck Club
Mary Downing Hahn
41. Wrote Johnny Tremain
Ester Forbes
Countee Cullen
Sylvia Plath
Aphra Behn
42. 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;
William Armstrong
The Giver
Johann David Wyss
Elie Wiesel
43. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird; American author
'Civil Disobedience'
Lewis Carroll
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Harper Lee
44. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
Anne Frank
'In Reference to her Children'
The Great Gatsby
Louis Sacher
45. Wrote Doctor Faustus
Louisa May Alcott
Christopher Marlowe
Elie Wiesel
Avi
46. set in modern times and focuses on the current circumstances of Stanley Yelnats - an unfortunate - unlucky young man who is sent to Camp Green Lake for a crime he didn't commit
James Joyce
Scott O'Dell
Holes
S.E. Hinton
47. Wrote Hatchet
The Giver
Ernest Hemingway
Ray Bradbury
Gary Paulson
48. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe
Langston Hughes
Lewis Carroll
Beloved
Mildred Taylor
49. 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
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Langston Hughes
Frederick Douglass
William Golding
50. Wrote Maniac Magee
Jerry Spinelli
Mary Downing Hahn
TS Eliot
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling