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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
Mildred Taylor
Oscar Wilde
HG Wells
JD Salinger
2. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
Walter Dean Myers
Edgar Allan Poe
James Joyce
Emily Dickinson
3. Wrote The Great Gatsby
Lord Byron
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Amy Tan
Crime and Punishment
4. 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
Frederick Douglass
Langston Hughes
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Farenheit 451
5. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
Mildred Taylor
George Orwell
William Golding
6. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
The Outsiders
Ester Forbes
Anne Frank
William Butler Yeats
7. Wrote Little Women; American novelist
Oscar Wilde
Louisa May Alcott
Beloved
George Orwell
8. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Stephen Crane
EB White
Anne Frank
HG Wells
9. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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10. Wrote Night
Jerry Spinelli
William Armstrong
Elie Wiesel
Frederick Douglass
11. 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.
The Outsiders
Holes
JRR Tolkein
The Aeneid
12. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
Emily Bronte
The Catcher in the Rye
Ester Forbes
JD Salinger
13. Wrote Doctor Faustus
The Outsiders
Frankenstein
Zora Neale Hurston
Christopher Marlowe
14. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Bell Jar
The Aeneid
15. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
JD Salinger
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Jean Craighead George
Ray Bradbury
16. 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
Beloved
Sonnet 18
Anna Karenina
John Keats
17. Wrote The Pigman
SE Hinton
Jane Eyre
Amy Tan
Paul Zindel
18. 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
The Pigman
Johann David Wyss
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Moby Dick
19. Wrote Hoot
Scott O'Dell
The Pigman
Carl Hiaason
JD Salinger
20. 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
The Call of the Wild
Not Without Laughter
The Outsiders
Little Women
21. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mildred Taylor
Mark Twain
Elie Wiesel
Katherine Patterson
22. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
Elizabeth George Speare
Helen Keller
Zora Neale Hurston
Amy Tan
23. 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
David Copperfield
Watership Down
Frankenstein
Emily Bronte
24. Gothic novel; a scientist creates a monster - and then abandons it in horror - a decision that leads to disaster and the deaths of nearly everyone he loves
Katherine Patterson
Frankenstein
Lord Byron
William Shakespeare
25. 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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26. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Little Women
Lord of the Flies
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
27. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
Alice In Wonderland
Emily Bronte
JRR Tolkein
The Bell Jar
28. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Jean Craighead George
JRR Tolkein
Charlotte Bronte
Edith Wharton
29. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
Anne Bradstreet
Sharon Creech
Mildred Taylor
The Pigman
30. Wrote Sonnet 18 - Hamlet - and Macbeth; greatest playwright who ever lived - prolific poet - known for sonnets
'Self - Reliance'
The Catcher in the Rye
William Shakespeare
Avi
31. 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
Sylvia Plath
Lois Lowry
1984
The Aeneid
32. 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
Lord Byron
Frankenstein
William Wordsworth
EB White
33. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
Johann David Wyss
The Catcher in the Rye
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Golding
34. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
The Great Gatsby
TS Eliot
George Orwell
Gary Paulson
35. 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
The Joy Luck Club
The Catcher in the Rye
CS Lewis
'Civil Disobedience'
36. Wrote Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Mansfield Park - et al.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jane Austen
Jean Craighead George
Geoffrey Chaucer
37. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
Macbeth
Not Without Laughter
Kate Dicamillo
CS Lewis
38. 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
Mark Twain
Aurora Leigh
Mildred Taylor
Stephen Crane
39. Wrote Charlotte's Web
Not Without Laughter
Madeline L'Engle
Paul Zindel
EB White
40. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
S.E. Hinton
Carl Hiaason
Anna Karenina
Avi
41. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Daniel Defoe
Aurora Leigh
TS Eliot
Toni Morrison
42. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Watership Down
Wendy Towle
Johann David Wyss
'Self - Reliance'
43. Wrote The Yearling
Richard Adams
Watership Down
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Johann David Wyss
44. 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
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Virginia Woolf
Mary Shelley
John Keats
45. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Christopher Paul Curtis
Richard Adams
Sharon Creech
Leo Tolstoy
46. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Gary Paulson
Mary Shelley
The Joy Luck Club
47. Wrote The Chocolate War
Toni Morrison
Sonnet 18
Robert Cormier
Alice In Wonderland
48. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Avi
William Shakespeare
Little Women
Jean Craighead George
49. Wrote Out of the Dust
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Karen Hesse
Moby Dick
The Bell Jar
50. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty
Alice Walker
Lord of the Flies
Jean Craighead George
'In Reference to her Children'