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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
Watership Down
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Red Badge of Courage
Walt Whitman
2. 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
Karen Hesse
Emily Dickinson
James Joyce
Sonnet 18
3. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
The Red Badge of Courage
Walter Dean Myers
Gary Paulson
The Bell Jar
4. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
Virginia Woolf
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Willa Cather
William Shakespeare
5. 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
Mary Shelley
Macbeth
Avi
Robert Cormier
6. Wrote Holes
Jack London
Moby Dick
The Red Badge of Courage
Louis Sacher
7. 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'
Caroline Cooney
Elizabeth George Speare
Ernest Hemingway
Harper Lee
8. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
Alice In Wonderland
Kate Dicamillo
Elie Wiesel
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
9. 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.
Christopher Marlowe
The Aeneid
George Orwell
Richard Adams
10. A group of animals mount a successful rebellion against the farmer who rules them - but their dreams of equality for all are ruined when one pig seizes power; novella - dystopian animal fable
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Animal Farm
Jane Eyre
Richard Adams
11. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
William Butler Yeats
Beloved
George Orwell
Mildred Taylor
12. Wrote The Yearling
Amy Tan
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Emily Bronte
Sharon Creech
13. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
Mildred Taylor
Charles Dickens
Frankenstein
Harper Lee
14. 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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15. Wrote Watership Down
CS Lewis
Richard Adams
Anna Karenina
Anne Frank
16. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Anna Karenina
The Joy Luck Club
Mary Downing Hahn
EB White
17. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
HG Wells
Mary Downing Hahn
Daniel Defoe
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
18. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
George Orwell
Watership Down
Little Women
The Pigman
19. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Ruth Avi
Anne Frank
EB White
Harper Lee
20. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Oscar Wilde
Ruth Avi
Alice Walker
Sonnet 18
21. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Johann David Wyss
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Ester Forbes
Louisa May Alcott
22. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
Mark Twain
Farenheit 451
James Joyce
Lord Byron
23. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Avi
Moby Dick
Henry David Thoreau
24. 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
Countee Cullen
Anne Bradstreet
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Henry David Thoreau
25. 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
Jerry Spinelli
Christopher Paul Curtis
Maya Angelou
Moby Dick
26. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Wendy Towle
Stephen Crane
Helen Keller
Ester Forbes
27. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
Herman Melville
Edgar Allan Poe
JD Salinger
Carl Hiaason
28. Wrote The Awakening - The Storm; feminist author of the 20th century; born in St. Louis - Missouri
Patricia Maclachlan
Virginia Woolf
Kate Chopin
Ruth Avi
29. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
Richard Adams
Sylvia Plath
Carl Hiaason
William Butler Yeats
30. Wrote Sounder
JRR Tolkein
F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Armstrong
Paul Zindel
31. Wrote The House on Mango Street
JD Salinger
Little Women
Sylvia Plath
Sandra Cisneros
32. 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
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Outsiders
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
William Butler Yeats
33. Wrote Night
Elie Wiesel
Holes
John Keats
Madeline L'Engle
34. Wrote The Great Gatsby
The Pigman
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Outsiders
SE Hinton
35. 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
Edgar Allan Poe
Sharon Creech
John Keats
Lord Byron
36. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
Robinson Crusoe
Scott O'Dell
Mildred Taylor
Patricia Maclachlan
37. 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
Lewis Carroll
William Wordsworth
Jane Austen
The Call of the Wild
38. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Geoffrey Chaucer
Toni Morrison
S.E. Hinton
The Bell Jar
39. Wrote Johnny Tremain
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ester Forbes
Nancy Farmer
Mark Twain
40. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
Lord of the Flies
Katherine Patterson
Mary Shelley
Ester Forbes
41. 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
The Red Badge of Courage
1984
George Orwell
Leo Tolstoy
42. Wrote Jane Eyre
Countee Cullen
Charlotte Bronte
Little Women
Alice Walker
43. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
Lois Lowry
William Shakespeare
Walt Whitman
Herman Melville
44. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Scott O'Dell
The Call of the Wild
Beloved
Ruth Avi
45. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
Farenheit 451
Little Women
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Great Gatsby
46. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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47. 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
The Pigman
HG Wells
1984
Toni Morrison
48. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
CS Lewis
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lois Lowry
Anna Karenina
49. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Anne Frank
Avi
Jean Craighead George
Watership Down
50. Wrote The Hobbit
Elizabeth George Speare
Toni Morrison
JRR Tolkein
William Golding