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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
The Red Badge of Courage
Zora Neale Hurston
Sylvia Plath
JRR Tolkein
2. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
Stephen Crane
John Keats
Harper Lee
Aurora Leigh
3. 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
Willa Cather
Washington Irving
Moby Dick
Anne Bradstreet
4. 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
JRR Tolkein
Stephen Crane
John Keats
The Call of the Wild
5. 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
Alice In Wonderland
David Copperfield
Sonnet 18
Zora Neale Hurston
6. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
Henry David Thoreau
Kate Dicamillo
Leo Tolstoy
Countee Cullen
7. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Jean Craighead George
Sharon Creech
Not Without Laughter
Karen Hesse
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
Macbeth
Walter Dean Myers
Christopher Marlowe
Toni Morrison
9. 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
Jean Craighead George
Katherine Patterson
Elizabeth George Speare
The Pigman
10. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
Katherine Patterson
Langston Hughes
Percy Bysshe Shelley
F. Scott Fitzgerald
11. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Elie Wiesel
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
12. Wrote Holes
Louis Sacher
Richard Adams
The Giver
'In Reference to her Children'
13. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
Henry David Thoreau
The Red Badge of Courage
Washington Irving
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
Kate Dicamillo
S.E. Hinton
Jack London
Scott O'Dell
15. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Holes
Anna Karenina
Beloved
16. Wrote Walk Two Moons
The Great Gatsby
Louis Sacher
Sharon Creech
Ben Mikaelson
17. 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
Ernest Hemingway
Virginia Woolf
Lord Byron
Mary Downing Hahn
18. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Gary Paulson
Jack London
Zora Neale Hurston
19. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Caroline Cooney
Ester Forbes
Paul Zindel
Charles Dickens
20. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Edgar Allan Poe
Ray Bradbury
Willa Cather
Mary Downing Hahn
21. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
Kate Chopin
Katherine Patterson
Karen Hesse
The Aeneid
22. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Aphra Behn
Countee Cullen
Johann David Wyss
Emily Bronte
23. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
The Bell Jar
Animal Farm
HG Wells
Christopher Paul Curtis
24. 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
Lewis Carroll
Holes
William Wordsworth
Zora Neale Hurston
25. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
S.E. Hinton
Helen Keller
'Civil Disobedience'
Mary Downing Hahn
26. 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
Ray Bradbury
Ben Mikaelson
Watership Down
Avi
27. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
John Keats
The Call of the Wild
Aphra Behn
Ben Mikaelson
28. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
David Copperfield
Charlotte Bronte
Jack London
Anne Bradstreet
29. 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
William Shakespeare
Alice Walker
Herman Melville
The Joy Luck Club
30. 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.
Mary Shelley
Elie Wiesel
The Aeneid
Jane Austen
31. Wrote The Lion - the Witch - and the Wardrobe
CS Lewis
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Outsiders
Alice In Wonderland
32. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
William Golding
Helen Keller
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lewis Carroll
33. 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
The Call of the Wild
Aphra Behn
Robert Cormier
Daniel Defoe
34. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Willa Cather
Lois Lowry
Beloved
Johann David Wyss
35. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Herman Melville
Carl Hiaason
Jack London
Farenheit 451
36. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird; American author
Jerry Spinelli
The Aeneid
Harper Lee
Jack London
37. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Walter Dean Myers
HG Wells
Maya Angelou
Edith Wharton
38. Wrote Night
Emily Bronte
Sharon Creech
Elie Wiesel
David Copperfield
39. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
Scott O'Dell
David Copperfield
Elizabeth George Speare
Edgar Allan Poe
40. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Giver
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Edith Wharton
41. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
Walt Whitman
Edgar Allan Poe
Frankenstein
Lewis Carroll
42. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
Frederick Douglass
Geoffrey Chaucer
Stephen Crane
Maya Angelou
43. Wrote The Hobbit
JRR Tolkein
Jack London
Sandra Cisneros
Harper Lee
44. Wrote The Yearling
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Geoffrey Chaucer
Animal Farm
Toni Morrison
45. 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
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Langston Hughes
Virgil
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
46. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
Ester Forbes
The Bell Jar
Toni Morrison
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
47. Wrote The Pigman
Crime and Punishment
Avi
Charles Dickens
Paul Zindel
48. Wrote Maniac Magee
Stephen Crane
The Giver
Mark Twain
Jerry Spinelli
49. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Carl Hiaason
Daniel Defoe
Walter Dean Myers
Robinson Crusoe
50. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Mary Downing Hahn
Lois Lowry
Kate Chopin
Christopher Paul Curtis