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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote Charlotte's Web
Mildred Taylor
Countee Cullen
JRR Tolkein
EB White
2. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Little Women
Oscar Wilde
Herman Melville
HG Wells
3. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Toni Morrison
Zora Neale Hurston
Anne Frank
4. Wrote The Outsiders
SE Hinton
Lewis Carroll
The Joy Luck Club
Christopher Marlowe
5. 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
Anne Frank
Robert Cormier
Countee Cullen
Crime and Punishment
6. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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7. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
JD Salinger
Holes
Jane Austen
Nathaniel Hawthorne
8. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
Emily Dickinson
William Wordsworth
Jack London
The Aeneid
9. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
William Wordsworth
Watership Down
Ruth Avi
Jerry Spinelli
10. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Patterson
The Catcher in the Rye
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Aurora Leigh
11. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Edgar Allan Poe
William Shakespeare
12. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Oscar Wilde
William Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
13. Wrote Hatchet
HG Wells
Lord of the Flies
Gary Paulson
Carl Hiaason
14. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Lewis Carroll
The Catcher in the Rye
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
William Golding
15. 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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16. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Maya Angelou
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Elie Wiesel
Ray Bradbury
17. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
The Great Gatsby
Scott O'Dell
Amy Tan
Jane Austen
18. An impoverished young woman (Jane) struggles to maintain her autonomy in the face of oppression - prejudice - and love; Gothic novel - bildungsroman - social portest novel
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Jane Eyre
Sharon Creech
Mark Twain
19. 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
David Copperfield
Holes
Farenheit 451
Macbeth
20. Wrote Doctor Faustus
Walt Whitman
Christopher Marlowe
Alice Walker
William Armstrong
21. 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.
EB White
The Aeneid
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Katherine Patterson
22. Wrote Jane Eyre
Macbeth
Toni Morrison
Jerry Spinelli
Charlotte Bronte
23. Wrote Johnny Tremain
Caroline Cooney
Robert Cormier
Ester Forbes
Henry David Thoreau
24. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
TS Eliot
Jane Eyre
Emily Dickinson
Toni Morrison
25. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
Sylvia Plath
Daniel Defoe
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Anne Bradstreet
26. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
Elizabeth George Speare
The Aeneid
Walt Whitman
Karen Hesse
27. 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
Aphra Behn
Emily Dickinson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Carl Hiaason
28. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Johann David Wyss
Jean Craighead George
Ben Mikaelson
Emily Dickinson
29. 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
SE Hinton
Sylvia Plath
Not Without Laughter
David Copperfield
30. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
Little Women
Sandra Cisneros
Wendy Towle
JRR Tolkein
31. Wrote The Glory Field
Ester Forbes
Walter Dean Myers
Karen Hesse
Gary Paulson
32. 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
Countee Cullen
CS Lewis
Jane Eyre
Ester Forbes
33. 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
The Catcher in the Rye
The Joy Luck Club
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mildred Taylor
34. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe
Beloved
Frankenstein
John Keats
Watership Down
35. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism
Henry David Thoreau
JD Salinger
Lord Byron
William Butler Yeats
36. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
Ben Mikaelson
William Golding
HG Wells
JD Salinger
37. 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
Langston Hughes
Aphra Behn
Beowulf
38. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
William Wordsworth
Amy Tan
Robert Cormier
James Joyce
39. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
The Call of the Wild
Holes
Alice In Wonderland
William Butler Yeats
40. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Leo Tolstoy
Willa Cather
Elie Wiesel
Anne Frank
41. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Holes
'Civil Disobedience'
Robinson Crusoe
42. 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
Robert Frost
Sylvia Plath
Helen Keller
John Keats
43. 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
Lord of the Flies
Frederick Douglass
JD Salinger
Holes
44. 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
Willa Cather
Emily Bronte
Emily Dickinson
Langston Hughes
45. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Mary Downing Hahn
Lewis Carroll
William Shakespeare
Charles Dickens
46. 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
Kate Dicamillo
Christopher Paul Curtis
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Not Without Laughter
47. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Alice In Wonderland
Mark Twain
Alice Walker
Willa Cather
48. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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49. 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
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
CS Lewis
Mildred Taylor
50. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
Jane Austen
Zora Neale Hurston
Patricia Maclachlan
Scott O'Dell