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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. 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
The Catcher in the Rye
Karen Hesse
'Civil Disobedience'
Jane Eyre
2. 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
Frankenstein
Daniel Defoe
David Copperfield
Edgar Allan Poe
3. Wrote The Chocolate War
Robert Cormier
'Civil Disobedience'
Charles Dickens
Helen Keller
4. Wrote The Hobbit
Harper Lee
SE Hinton
Frankenstein
JRR Tolkein
5. Wrote Roll of Thunder
Wendy Towle
'In Reference to her Children'
Mildred Taylor
The Picture of Dorian Gray
6. Wrote Watership Down
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Richard Adams
Johann David Wyss
Farenheit 451
7. Wrote Doctor Faustus
Willa Cather
Christopher Marlowe
Nancy Farmer
William Wordsworth
8. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
Elizabeth George Speare
Nancy Farmer
Wendy Towle
Lord of the Flies
9. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
William Butler Yeats
Ben Mikaelson
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lord of the Flies
10. An impoverished young woman (Jane) struggles to maintain her autonomy in the face of oppression - prejudice - and love; Gothic novel - bildungsroman - social portest novel
Jane Eyre
Emily Dickinson
Ernest Hemingway
'In Reference to her Children'
11. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
Leo Tolstoy
Jane Austen
Frederick Douglass
Maya Angelou
12. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
TS Eliot
Karen Hesse
James Joyce
Anne Bradstreet
13. Wrote Maniac Magee
Aphra Behn
Elie Wiesel
Mildred Taylor
Jerry Spinelli
14. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist
Ray Bradbury
'In Reference to her Children'
Charles Dickens
Henry David Thoreau
15. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Lewis Carroll
Maya Angelou
Elie Wiesel
Sandra Cisneros
16. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
Jack London
William Butler Yeats
Walter Dean Myers
Charlotte Bronte
17. Wrote Charlotte's Web
EB White
To Kill a Mockingbird
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Aeneid
18. set in modern times and focuses on the current circumstances of Stanley Yelnats - an unfortunate - unlucky young man who is sent to Camp Green Lake for a crime he didn't commit
Zora Neale Hurston
Frederick Douglass
Johann David Wyss
Holes
19. Wrote Holes
Mildred Taylor
Richard Adams
Louis Sacher
Countee Cullen
20. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
The Giver
Caroline Cooney
Robert Frost
The Red Badge of Courage
21. A great warrior - goes to Denmark on a successful mission to kill Grendel; he returns home to Geatland - where he becomes king and slays a dragon before dying; poem; alliterative verse - elegy - small scale heroic epic; author unknown; setting around
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Beowulf
The Pigman
Washington Irving
22. 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
Maya Angelou
The Call of the Wild
Daniel Defoe
Richard Adams
23. Wrote Sounder
Wendy Towle
Virginia Woolf
William Armstrong
Edith Wharton
24. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
Little Women
The Great Gatsby
Lois Lowry
Percy Bysshe Shelley
25. Wrote The Lion - the Witch - and the Wardrobe
HG Wells
Mildred Taylor
Jane Eyre
CS Lewis
26. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
HG Wells
Toni Morrison
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Aurora Leigh
27. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Not Without Laughter
Aphra Behn
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Macbeth
28. Wrote The Fall of the House of Usher - The Murders in the Rue Morgue - and The Raven; wrote poems: 'To Science -' 'The City and the Sea -' and 'Silence;' American writer - poet - editor and literary critic; part of American Romantic Movement
Daniel Defoe
Ernest Hemingway
Richard Adams
Edgar Allan Poe
29. Wrote The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Walt Whitman
Fyodor Dostoevsky
30. 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
Robert Frost
The Red Badge of Courage
Robinson Crusoe
Ernest Hemingway
31. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
Scott O'Dell
TS Eliot
Lois Lowry
Edith Wharton
32. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Nancy Farmer
The Great Gatsby
Anne Frank
CS Lewis
33. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism
Madeline L'Engle
Carl Hiaason
Lord Byron
Sharon Creech
34. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Jean Craighead George
Moby Dick
Mark Twain
Charles Dickens
35. 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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36. 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
Robinson Crusoe
'Self - Reliance'
William Wordsworth
Richard Adams
37. 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
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Anne Frank
Henry David Thoreau
The Joy Luck Club
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
The Call of the Wild
Stephen Crane
Ruth Avi
The Giver
39. 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'
Ernest Hemingway
Beloved
Sylvia Plath
Watership Down
40. 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
Zora Neale Hurston
Robert Frost
Ester Forbes
John Keats
41. Wrote Shiloh
Edgar Allan Poe
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Jean Craighead George
Frederick Douglass
42. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Lois Lowry
JD Salinger
Lord of the Flies
William Wordsworth
43. Wrote Little Women; American novelist
Louisa May Alcott
Little Women
Charlotte Bronte
Richard Adams
44. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Daniel Defoe
Jane Eyre
David Copperfield
The Catcher in the Rye
45. Wrote The Great Gatsby
'In Reference to her Children'
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Alice In Wonderland
Robinson Crusoe
46. A man is shipwrecked on an island - where he lives for more than 20 years - fending off cannibals and creating a pleasant life for himself
Countee Cullen
Crime and Punishment
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Robinson Crusoe
47. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
David Copperfield
Robinson Crusoe
TS Eliot
48. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Toni Morrison
Holes
Lois Lowry
Wendy Towle
49. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lewis Carroll
Jerry Spinelli
Sonnet 18
50. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mary Shelley
Jack London
Sandra Cisneros