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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Anna Karenina
Aurora Leigh
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye
2. Wrote Johnny Tremain
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Countee Cullen
Ester Forbes
Farenheit 451
3. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
The Aeneid
Ben Mikaelson
The Bell Jar
CS Lewis
4. Wrote Roll of Thunder
Ben Mikaelson
William Golding
Walter Dean Myers
Mildred Taylor
5. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
Emily Bronte
Kate Dicamillo
William Shakespeare
William Armstrong
6. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
Robinson Crusoe
Washington Irving
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
The Aeneid
7. 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
David Copperfield
Animal Farm
Beowulf
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
8. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
Emily Dickinson
Lord of the Flies
Zora Neale Hurston
Crime and Punishment
9. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
Toni Morrison
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Elie Wiesel
Fyodor Dostoevsky
10. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Mary Shelley
Louis Sacher
Ester Forbes
The Call of the Wild
11. Wrote Holes
Louis Sacher
Not Without Laughter
Frederick Douglass
Nathaniel Hawthorne
12. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
The Outsiders
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Mark Twain
Caroline Cooney
13. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Frankenstein
Ben Mikaelson
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lois Lowry
14. 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
1984
Watership Down
Jerry Spinelli
Alice Walker
15. Wrote Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Mansfield Park - et al.
Emily Dickinson
Charles Dickens
Emily Bronte
Jane Austen
16. Wrote The Outsiders
Anne Bradstreet
Kate Chopin
S.E. Hinton
Mildred Taylor
17. 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
Paul Zindel
TS Eliot
Countee Cullen
Madeline L'Engle
18. 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
Robinson Crusoe
Aurora Leigh
Gary Paulson
Ernest Hemingway
19. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Christopher Paul Curtis
Not Without Laughter
'Civil Disobedience'
20. 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
Toni Morrison
The Giver
William Wordsworth
Anne Frank
21. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Bell Jar
Ben Mikaelson
Fyodor Dostoevsky
22. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
Farenheit 451
Toni Morrison
The Pigman
Aurora Leigh
23. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Mildred Taylor
William Shakespeare
Crime and Punishment
Daniel Defoe
24. 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
Alice In Wonderland
JRR Tolkein
George Orwell
25. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
Lois Lowry
William Armstrong
Alice In Wonderland
EB White
26. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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27. 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
David Copperfield
Ruth Avi
TS Eliot
Percy Bysshe Shelley
28. 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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29. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
TS Eliot
David Copperfield
'Civil Disobedience'
S.E. Hinton
30. 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
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Holes
Beowulf
Patricia Maclachlan
31. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
William Armstrong
The Catcher in the Rye
Mary Downing Hahn
Robert Frost
32. Wrote Hatchet
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
The Red Badge of Courage
Helen Keller
Gary Paulson
33. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
'In Reference to her Children'
The Call of the Wild
Elizabeth George Speare
The Pigman
34. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Wendy Towle
The Giver
Jane Austen
JD Salinger
35. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Lewis Carroll
Oscar Wilde
Aurora Leigh
Christopher Paul Curtis
36. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Karen Hesse
Ruth Avi
John Keats
Their Eyes Were Watching God
37. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
Walt Whitman
William Golding
Countee Cullen
Willa Cather
38. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Geoffrey Chaucer
Little Women
Countee Cullen
Herman Melville
39. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Ruth Avi
Jean Craighead George
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
40. 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
The Outsiders
Frankenstein
Madeline L'Engle
Virgil
41. Wrote The Pigman
Elizabeth George Speare
Anne Frank
Paul Zindel
Walt Whitman
42. Wrote Hoot
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Carl Hiaason
'In Reference to her Children'
43. 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
Robert Frost
William Butler Yeats
Watership Down
Sylvia Plath
44. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Patricia Maclachlan
'Civil Disobedience'
Sandra Cisneros
45. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
'Self - Reliance'
Alice Walker
Lord Byron
Leo Tolstoy
46. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
William Butler Yeats
Paul Zindel
Louis Sacher
Ray Bradbury
47. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
'In Reference to her Children'
Lewis Carroll
JD Salinger
SE Hinton
48. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Lewis Carroll
Sharon Creech
Beowulf
Emily Bronte
49. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
Virginia Woolf
HG Wells
Frankenstein
Karen Hesse
50. Wrote The Glory Field
George Orwell
Walter Dean Myers
Aurora Leigh
Oscar Wilde
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