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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote The Awakening - The Storm; feminist author of the 20th century; born in St. Louis - Missouri
Crime and Punishment
Kate Dicamillo
The Giver
Kate Chopin
2. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Mary Shelley
Mildred Taylor
James Joyce
Their Eyes Were Watching God
3. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
Patricia Maclachlan
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Madeline L'Engle
Edgar Allan Poe
4. Wrote The House on Mango Street
The Giver
The Outsiders
JD Salinger
Sandra Cisneros
5. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
TS Eliot
Alice In Wonderland
Jack London
Edgar Allan Poe
6. 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
Anna Karenina
Fyodor Dostoevsky
William Wordsworth
7. Wrote The Chocolate War
Henry David Thoreau
Lewis Carroll
Sylvia Plath
Robert Cormier
8. Wrote The Pigman
William Butler Yeats
The Outsiders
Avi
Paul Zindel
9. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Madeline L'Engle
Jean Craighead George
Christopher Marlowe
Richard Adams
10. 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
TS Eliot
Helen Keller
David Copperfield
Sylvia Plath
11. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Louis Sacher
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jerry Spinelli
Anne Bradstreet
12. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
William Golding
The Catcher in the Rye
Katherine Patterson
Frederick Douglass
13. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
Nancy Farmer
Oscar Wilde
The Great Gatsby
The Red Badge of Courage
14. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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15. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
Elizabeth George Speare
Langston Hughes
Caroline Cooney
Beowulf
16. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
Moby Dick
Jane Eyre
Walt Whitman
Herman Melville
17. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
Frederick Douglass
Sylvia Plath
'In Reference to her Children'
Kate Dicamillo
18. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Helen Keller
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Willa Cather
19. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
Nancy Farmer
The Joy Luck Club
Little Women
Mary Downing Hahn
20. Wrote A Wrinkle in Time - A Swiftly Tilting Planet - A Wind in the Door - The Small Rain - 24 Days before Christmas
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21. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Little Women
Ruth Avi
Anna Karenina
Lois Lowry
22. Wrote Out of the Dust
Karen Hesse
Katherine Patterson
Sharon Creech
The Giver
23. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Willa Cather
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Pigman
24. A monomaniacal captain tries and fails to kill a monstrous white whale; adventure story - quest tale - allegory; protagonist: Ishmael - Ahab; antogonist: Ahab - great white sperm whale
John Keats
Moby Dick
Kate Chopin
Frankenstein
25. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Avi
Kate Chopin
To Kill a Mockingbird
Daniel Defoe
26. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Mark Twain
Paul Zindel
Ray Bradbury
Sharon Creech
27. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
JRR Tolkein
Maya Angelou
Leo Tolstoy
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
28. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Mildred Taylor
Charles Dickens
Not Without Laughter
Oscar Wilde
29. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mark Twain
Wendy Towle
Henry David Thoreau
30. 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
Macbeth
The Pigman
Lewis Carroll
Johann David Wyss
31. 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
George Orwell
Mary Shelley
The Call of the Wild
Aphra Behn
32. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
Washington Irving
Christopher Paul Curtis
'In Reference to her Children'
Toni Morrison
33. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
JD Salinger
1984
Herman Melville
Watership Down
34. Wrote Ethan Frome
Frankenstein
Alice In Wonderland
Christopher Marlowe
Edith Wharton
35. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
The Catcher in the Rye
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
William Butler Yeats
Madeline L'Engle
36. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird; American author
Daniel Defoe
Lord of the Flies
Anne Frank
Harper Lee
37. 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'
James Joyce
'Civil Disobedience'
The Aeneid
Ernest Hemingway
38. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism
Edith Wharton
Lord Byron
Stephen Crane
Helen Keller
39. Wrote Wuthering Heights
Virginia Woolf
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Red Badge of Courage
Emily Bronte
40. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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41. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
Ben Mikaelson
Daniel Defoe
Jean Craighead George
HG Wells
42. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Walter Dean Myers
Geoffrey Chaucer
Daniel Defoe
William Shakespeare
43. Wrote Little Women; American novelist
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Not Without Laughter
Mary Downing Hahn
Louisa May Alcott
44. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
Robert Frost
George Orwell
Sonnet 18
Virgil
45. Wrote Doctor Faustus
Caroline Cooney
Christopher Marlowe
James Joyce
Countee Cullen
46. Book written by George Orwell - announced an insane world of dehumanization through terror in which the individual was systematically obliterated by an all - power elite; key phrases: Big Brother - doublethink - Newspeak - the Ministry of Peace...Tru
Jack London
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1984
Ester Forbes
47. Wrote Jane Eyre
Jane Austen
Jack London
Charlotte Bronte
Not Without Laughter
48. Wrote The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Charlotte Bronte
Louisa May Alcott
Macbeth
49. 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
Stephen Crane
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Holes
Richard Adams
50. 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
To Kill a Mockingbird
Crime and Punishment
Gary Paulson
Their Eyes Were Watching God