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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. 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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2. Wrote Maniac Magee
William Wordsworth
Emily Bronte
Zora Neale Hurston
Jerry Spinelli
3. 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
Caroline Cooney
Charles Dickens
Ben Mikaelson
1984
4. Wrote Holes
Aphra Behn
Carl Hiaason
Louis Sacher
Richard Adams
5. 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 Aeneid
Johann David Wyss
Charles Dickens
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
6. Wrote The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Outsiders
HG Wells
Maya Angelou
7. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Mary Shelley
Macbeth
Aphra Behn
Paul Zindel
8. Wrote Hatchet
Crime and Punishment
Gary Paulson
Lord of the Flies
Louis Sacher
9. 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
The Great Gatsby
Edgar Allan Poe
S.E. Hinton
JRR Tolkein
10. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Anne Bradstreet
Stephen Crane
Charlotte Bronte
11. 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
Stephen Crane
Avi
Animal Farm
Jane Austen
12. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe
CS Lewis
William Armstrong
Anne Bradstreet
Beloved
13. An impoverished young woman (Jane) struggles to maintain her autonomy in the face of oppression - prejudice - and love; Gothic novel - bildungsroman - social portest novel
James Joyce
Jane Eyre
The Aeneid
Louisa May Alcott
14. 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
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Lord of the Flies
Henry David Thoreau
David Copperfield
15. 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
Washington Irving
Beowulf
William Wordsworth
Kate Chopin
16. Wrote Johnny Tremain
Ester Forbes
Jerry Spinelli
Not Without Laughter
The Red Badge of Courage
17. 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
William Wordsworth
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Scott O'Dell
The Red Badge of Courage
18. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker
To Kill a Mockingbird
Robert Frost
Emily Bronte
Ralph Waldo Emerson
19. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist
Henry David Thoreau
Edith Wharton
To Kill a Mockingbird
Farenheit 451
20. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
William Wordsworth
Harper Lee
Elizabeth George Speare
Anne Frank
21. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
JD Salinger
Paul Zindel
Crime and Punishment
Jean Craighead George
22. 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'
EB White
Daniel Defoe
The Aeneid
Ernest Hemingway
23. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Alice Walker
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Scott O'Dell
24. Wrote Hoot
CS Lewis
SE Hinton
Carl Hiaason
Their Eyes Were Watching God
25. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty
Harper Lee
Walter Dean Myers
Anne Frank
Lord of the Flies
26. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
Mary Downing Hahn
EB White
Jane Eyre
Frederick Douglass
27. 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
The Bell Jar
The Great Gatsby
Mark Twain
Countee Cullen
28. 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
Jane Austen
Ray Bradbury
Lord Byron
29. Wrote The Yearling
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Leo Tolstoy
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mary Downing Hahn
30. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Herman Melville
Emily Bronte
Kate Dicamillo
The Call of the Wild
31. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
Patricia Maclachlan
Nathaniel Hawthorne
JD Salinger
Gary Paulson
32. 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
HG Wells
S.E. Hinton
SE Hinton
Crime and Punishment
33. 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
Edgar Allan Poe
1984
SE Hinton
Virginia Woolf
34. 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
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Katherine Patterson
Oscar Wilde
Macbeth
35. Wrote The Lion - the Witch - and the Wardrobe
CS Lewis
Ben Mikaelson
Nancy Farmer
'Self - Reliance'
36. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
Herman Melville
George Orwell
Henry David Thoreau
JRR Tolkein
37. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Paul Zindel
David Copperfield
Emily Bronte
Ray Bradbury
38. Wrote Sounder
William Armstrong
Mary Downing Hahn
The Outsiders
The Call of the Wild
39. 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
Moby Dick
Gary Paulson
William Shakespeare
Macbeth
40. It is set in a future society which is at first presented as a utopian society and gradually appears more and more dystopian; therefore - it could be considered anti - utopian; the novel follows a boy named Jonas through the twelfth year of his life;
JRR Tolkein
The Giver
Oscar Wilde
Maya Angelou
41. Wrote The Hobbit
Countee Cullen
JRR Tolkein
The Catcher in the Rye
Anna Karenina
42. 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
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Animal Farm
The Catcher in the Rye
Patricia Maclachlan
43. Wrote The Chocolate War
'Civil Disobedience'
Robert Cormier
Anne Bradstreet
Not Without Laughter
44. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Robinson Crusoe
Langston Hughes
Caroline Cooney
Anne Frank
45. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
Lewis Carroll
Beloved
Charles Dickens
Emily Bronte
46. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
William Butler Yeats
Virginia Woolf
Countee Cullen
Moby Dick
47. Wrote The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton
Washington Irving
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Johann David Wyss
48. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
Mildred Taylor
S.E. Hinton
Emily Bronte
Anne Bradstreet
49. Wrote The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros
William Butler Yeats
Ben Mikaelson
Elie Wiesel
50. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Sharon Creech
Washington Irving
Frederick Douglass
Mark Twain