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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
'In Reference to her Children'
Elizabeth George Speare
Anna Karenina
Charlotte Bronte
2. 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
The Giver
Ray Bradbury
Karen Hesse
Virginia Woolf
3. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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4. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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5. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
Countee Cullen
Animal Farm
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Mary Shelley
6. Wrote The Hobbit
Beloved
JRR Tolkein
David Copperfield
James Joyce
7. 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
Walt Whitman
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Emily Dickinson
Their Eyes Were Watching God
8. Wrote Night
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
Jean Craighead George
Elie Wiesel
9. 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
Mark Twain
Anna Karenina
Mildred Taylor
The Call of the Wild
10. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
David Copperfield
Kate Dicamillo
Christopher Paul Curtis
The Red Badge of Courage
11. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
Helen Keller
William Golding
William Butler Yeats
Ernest Hemingway
12. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
CS Lewis
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lewis Carroll
Aphra Behn
13. Wrote Holes
Maya Angelou
Ester Forbes
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Louis Sacher
14. 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
Geoffrey Chaucer
Countee Cullen
Frankenstein
SE Hinton
15. 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
Caroline Cooney
EB White
The Outsiders
Langston Hughes
16. 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
Anne Bradstreet
Langston Hughes
Frederick Douglass
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
17. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
The Great Gatsby
Toni Morrison
Not Without Laughter
'In Reference to her Children'
18. Wrote Sonnet 18 - Hamlet - and Macbeth; greatest playwright who ever lived - prolific poet - known for sonnets
William Shakespeare
Leo Tolstoy
Ray Bradbury
Lois Lowry
19. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty
The Call of the Wild
Lord of the Flies
SE Hinton
Stephen Crane
20. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
Sylvia Plath
Paul Zindel
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Kate Chopin
21. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
Daniel Defoe
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Virginia Woolf
22. 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
F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Armstrong
John Keats
Kate Chopin
23. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Ray Bradbury
Lord of the Flies
Wendy Towle
Farenheit 451
24. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
George Orwell
Mark Twain
JD Salinger
James Joyce
25. 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
'In Reference to her Children'
The Great Gatsby
Aphra Behn
Farenheit 451
26. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Washington Irving
JD Salinger
Elie Wiesel
Herman Melville
27. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Beloved
Kate Dicamillo
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Oscar Wilde
28. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
Jerry Spinelli
HG Wells
Lewis Carroll
Langston Hughes
29. In an attempt to prove a theory - a student (Raskolnikov) murders two women - after which he suffers greatly from guilt and worry; psychological drama - setting in the 1860s
Walt Whitman
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mary Shelley
30. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Langston Hughes
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nancy Farmer
Lois Lowry
31. Wrote Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe
Anna Karenina
Lord Byron
William Butler Yeats
32. 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
Mildred Taylor
Anne Bradstreet
Charles Dickens
Frankenstein
33. Maintains the bird metaphor throughout the poem's ninety - six lines - describing the various 'flights' of five of her children and her concerns about those remaining in the nest
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34. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
JD Salinger
Countee Cullen
George Orwell
EB White
35. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
Willa Cather
Little Women
The Red Badge of Courage
Beowulf
36. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
Crime and Punishment
Christopher Marlowe
Sylvia Plath
William Butler Yeats
37. Wrote The Chocolate War
Harper Lee
Robert Cormier
Ruth Avi
Willa Cather
38. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
Mildred Taylor
Louisa May Alcott
Carl Hiaason
The Bell Jar
39. 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
Louisa May Alcott
The Joy Luck Club
Beowulf
Elizabeth George Speare
40. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
The Giver
Carl Hiaason
Caroline Cooney
George Orwell
41. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
The Red Badge of Courage
Lois Lowry
'Self - Reliance'
Maya Angelou
42. 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'
Oscar Wilde
The Joy Luck Club
Ernest Hemingway
EB White
43. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist
Aurora Leigh
Toni Morrison
The Joy Luck Club
Henry David Thoreau
44. 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
Lois Lowry
Sandra Cisneros
Avi
Macbeth
45. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
Edgar Allan Poe
Zora Neale Hurston
Aurora Leigh
Ruth Avi
46. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
David Copperfield
Louisa May Alcott
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Mildred Taylor
47. An impoverished young woman (Jane) struggles to maintain her autonomy in the face of oppression - prejudice - and love; Gothic novel - bildungsroman - social portest novel
The Pigman
Jane Eyre
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
JRR Tolkein
48. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
Jean Craighead George
Anne Bradstreet
The Outsiders
Countee Cullen
49. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
Anne Frank
Oscar Wilde
Nancy Farmer
Walt Whitman
50. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Anna Karenina
William Wordsworth
William Armstrong
Christopher Marlowe