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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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2. 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
Richard Adams
Virgil
Amy Tan
3. 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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4. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist
The Pigman
Jack London
David Copperfield
Henry David Thoreau
5. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty
Christopher Marlowe
Lord of the Flies
Washington Irving
Aphra Behn
6. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Avi
Richard Adams
Zora Neale Hurston
Madeline L'Engle
7. Wrote The House on Mango Street
Gary Paulson
Langston Hughes
Sandra Cisneros
Frederick Douglass
8. Wrote The Outsiders
John Keats
Willa Cather
The Catcher in the Rye
S.E. Hinton
9. 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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10. 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
Zora Neale Hurston
JD Salinger
Ester Forbes
Robert Frost
11. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Robert Cormier
Crime and Punishment
Anne Frank
William Butler Yeats
12. 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
Emily Bronte
'In Reference to her Children'
The Call of the Wild
George Orwell
13. Wrote Shiloh
Charlotte Bronte
Anna Karenina
Lewis Carroll
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
14. Wrote Ethan Frome
John Keats
Edith Wharton
Christopher Marlowe
Robert Cormier
15. Wrote Sounder
The Red Badge of Courage
William Armstrong
Countee Cullen
Mildred Taylor
16. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
Maya Angelou
Leo Tolstoy
Stephen Crane
William Golding
17. 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
George Orwell
The Red Badge of Courage
The Catcher in the Rye
Walter Dean Myers
18. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Animal Farm
The Call of the Wild
Sharon Creech
Jerry Spinelli
19. '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
Jane Eyre
Ray Bradbury
Virgil
Sonnet 18
20. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Mildred Taylor
Oscar Wilde
Helen Keller
Langston Hughes
21. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Robert Cormier
Percy Bysshe Shelley
22. 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
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Helen Keller
Emily Bronte
David Copperfield
23. 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
Not Without Laughter
Beloved
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
JD Salinger
24. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
Sharon Creech
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Sandra Cisneros
Alice Walker
25. Wrote Charlotte's Web
'Self - Reliance'
EB White
Mary Shelley
Paul Zindel
26. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Willa Cather
Richard Adams
The Call of the Wild
27. Wrote The Yearling
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Macbeth
Christopher Paul Curtis
JRR Tolkein
28. Wrote Johnny Tremain
Johann David Wyss
Frederick Douglass
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ester Forbes
29. 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
Aurora Leigh
Geoffrey Chaucer
Lewis Carroll
Their Eyes Were Watching God
30. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
Katherine Patterson
JRR Tolkein
Mildred Taylor
Anne Bradstreet
31. Wrote Holes
Farenheit 451
Toni Morrison
Louis Sacher
Anne Frank
32. Wrote The Chocolate War
Robert Cormier
Helen Keller
Gary Paulson
Moby Dick
33. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Jack London
Robinson Crusoe
1984
34. Wrote Night
Patricia Maclachlan
Elie Wiesel
Willa Cather
Ben Mikaelson
35. Wrote Little Women; American novelist
Louisa May Alcott
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Frankenstein
Crime and Punishment
36. 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'
William Armstrong
Ernest Hemingway
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Scott O'Dell
37. 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
Louis Sacher
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Paul Zindel
38. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
Wendy Towle
Emily Dickinson
Elizabeth George Speare
The Giver
39. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
Frankenstein
HG Wells
Virginia Woolf
The Great Gatsby
40. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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41. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
The Aeneid
Henry David Thoreau
Ray Bradbury
Kate Dicamillo
42. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Lord Byron
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Beloved
43. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
William Shakespeare
Washington Irving
Caroline Cooney
Madeline L'Engle
44. Wrote Sonnet 18 - Hamlet - and Macbeth; greatest playwright who ever lived - prolific poet - known for sonnets
The Joy Luck Club
Anne Frank
Zora Neale Hurston
William Shakespeare
45. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
Robert Cormier
JD Salinger
William Shakespeare
Emily Dickinson
46. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
Walt Whitman
Emily Bronte
Robert Frost
Lewis Carroll
47. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
Maya Angelou
Jane Eyre
The Great Gatsby
George Orwell
48. Wrote Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Mansfield Park - et al.
Sonnet 18
Jane Austen
SE Hinton
Robert Cormier
49. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
The Red Badge of Courage
Anne Bradstreet
Katherine Patterson
James Joyce
50. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
Walt Whitman
Helen Keller
Mark Twain
Elie Wiesel