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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. 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
Zora Neale Hurston
John Keats
Sandra Cisneros
Moby Dick
2. Wrote Watership Down
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Richard Adams
Oscar Wilde
James Joyce
3. Wrote The Awakening - The Storm; feminist author of the 20th century; born in St. Louis - Missouri
Jane Austen
Kate Chopin
The Giver
Maya Angelou
4. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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5. 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
Oscar Wilde
The Outsiders
Louis Sacher
The Call of the Wild
6. 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
Not Without Laughter
JD Salinger
Langston Hughes
Ernest Hemingway
7. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
Jerry Spinelli
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lord Byron
Jack London
8. 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
The Aeneid
William Armstrong
John Keats
Ray Bradbury
9. Wrote The Outsiders
William Wordsworth
Anna Karenina
SE Hinton
Charles Dickens
10. Wrote Maniac Magee
Jerry Spinelli
Holes
Anne Frank
The Bell Jar
11. Wrote Roll of Thunder
Willa Cather
Mildred Taylor
Christopher Marlowe
Aphra Behn
12. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Fyodor Dostoevsky
William Armstrong
George Orwell
Holes
13. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Toni Morrison
Jane Austen
S.E. Hinton
Animal Farm
14. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Toni Morrison
The Pigman
Edith Wharton
Christopher Paul Curtis
15. Wrote Night
Ruth Avi
Avi
Elie Wiesel
Virginia Woolf
16. After two marriages to oppressive men - a woman (Janie Crawford) finds temporary happiness with a husband twelve years her junior; themes: the illusion of power - non - necessity of relationships - folkloric quality of religion
The Aeneid
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Amy Tan
Farenheit 451
17. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Kate Dicamillo
The Outsiders
Caroline Cooney
Walt Whitman
18. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Helen Keller
Anne Frank
To Kill a Mockingbird
19. Wrote The Aeneid
Sonnet 18
Harper Lee
Holes
Virgil
20. Wrote Charlotte's Web
EB White
'In Reference to her Children'
William Shakespeare
Beowulf
21. 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
Jane Eyre
Robert Frost
Virginia Woolf
Nathaniel Hawthorne
22. Wrote Johnny Tremain
Ester Forbes
David Copperfield
Christopher Marlowe
Jerry Spinelli
23. 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
Christopher Marlowe
Nathaniel Hawthorne
SE Hinton
Crime and Punishment
24. 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
'In Reference to her Children'
Ester Forbes
Katherine Patterson
25. Wrote Little Women; American novelist
JD Salinger
Louisa May Alcott
JRR Tolkein
Walt Whitman
26. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
Robert Cormier
The Red Badge of Courage
Elizabeth George Speare
Carl Hiaason
27. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Oscar Wilde
Christopher Paul Curtis
Animal Farm
Gary Paulson
28. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
JD Salinger
Ernest Hemingway
Aurora Leigh
29. Wrote Ethan Frome
Madeline L'Engle
Langston Hughes
Elie Wiesel
Edith Wharton
30. 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.
Lord Byron
HG Wells
The Aeneid
The Pigman
31. Wrote The Hobbit
JRR Tolkein
Scott O'Dell
S.E. Hinton
Daniel Defoe
32. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
The Aeneid
Mary Downing Hahn
William Shakespeare
Maya Angelou
33. Wrote Out of the Dust
'Civil Disobedience'
Karen Hesse
F. Scott Fitzgerald
SE Hinton
34. 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
Ester Forbes
Robinson Crusoe
The Aeneid
Ben Mikaelson
35. Wrote Walk Two Moons
CS Lewis
Farenheit 451
Virgil
Sharon Creech
36. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
Maya Angelou
Anne Bradstreet
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Robinson Crusoe
37. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Jack London
Stephen Crane
Virginia Woolf
Maya Angelou
38. Wrote The Pigman
Paul Zindel
Robert Frost
Robert Cormier
Farenheit 451
39. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Edith Wharton
Louis Sacher
Their Eyes Were Watching God
40. Wrote The House on Mango Street
Edgar Allan Poe
Robert Cormier
Watership Down
Sandra Cisneros
41. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
Karen Hesse
The Outsiders
Harper Lee
Sylvia Plath
42. 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
Geoffrey Chaucer
Holes
Walter Dean Myers
The Joy Luck Club
43. Wrote The Lion - the Witch - and the Wardrobe
Beowulf
CS Lewis
Crime and Punishment
Countee Cullen
44. Wrote The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton
Mildred Taylor
F. Scott Fitzgerald
'Self - Reliance'
45. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
Virginia Woolf
Nancy Farmer
Aphra Behn
Sonnet 18
46. 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
Edgar Allan Poe
The Bell Jar
Ben Mikaelson
The Pigman
47. 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
The Pigman
Farenheit 451
William Wordsworth
Herman Melville
48. Wrote Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Mansfield Park - et al.
James Joyce
Jane Austen
Johann David Wyss
Mark Twain
49. 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
Beowulf
Alice In Wonderland
The Call of the Wild
Emily Dickinson
50. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Daniel Defoe
Katherine Patterson
Mark Twain
Leo Tolstoy