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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Crime and Punishment
The Red Badge of Courage
Mildred Taylor
2. 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
Christopher Marlowe
Ester Forbes
'Self - Reliance'
3. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Johann David Wyss
Alice Walker
Paul Zindel
Mark Twain
4. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Lord of the Flies
Anna Karenina
'In Reference to her Children'
5. 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
Daniel Defoe
Moby Dick
Stephen Crane
Henry David Thoreau
6. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
The Call of the Wild
JD Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
Helen Keller
7. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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8. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
Katherine Patterson
Carl Hiaason
Kate Dicamillo
Crime and Punishment
9. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
The Catcher in the Rye
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Anne Frank
Alice In Wonderland
10. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe
The Red Badge of Courage
Beloved
CS Lewis
Mildred Taylor
11. 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
Geoffrey Chaucer
Virginia Woolf
Beowulf
Patricia Maclachlan
12. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty
Maya Angelou
Anne Bradstreet
Lord of the Flies
Herman Melville
13. 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
Charles Dickens
Maya Angelou
The Pigman
1984
14. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
Alice Walker
Jack London
Kate Dicamillo
The Picture of Dorian Gray
15. 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
Ruth Avi
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edgar Allan Poe
Moby Dick
16. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Ruth Avi
Geoffrey Chaucer
Madeline L'Engle
Paul Zindel
17. Wrote Wuthering Heights
Walt Whitman
Emily Bronte
Anne Frank
Elizabeth George Speare
18. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Daniel Defoe
Kate Chopin
William Golding
Robert Cormier
19. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Alice Walker
The Bell Jar
Louis Sacher
William Shakespeare
20. Wrote The Chocolate War
The Red Badge of Courage
S.E. Hinton
Virgil
Robert Cormier
21. Wrote Little Women; American novelist
Fyodor Dostoevsky
William Shakespeare
Louisa May Alcott
Lord of the Flies
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
The Call of the Wild
The Joy Luck Club
Frankenstein
Lord of the Flies
23. Wrote The Lion - the Witch - and the Wardrobe
Not Without Laughter
TS Eliot
Frankenstein
CS Lewis
24. Wrote Holes
Louis Sacher
'Self - Reliance'
Langston Hughes
The Joy Luck Club
25. Wrote Jane Eyre
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Charlotte Bronte
Elie Wiesel
26. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Patricia Maclachlan
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nancy Farmer
27. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
1984
Katherine Patterson
The Red Badge of Courage
Lewis Carroll
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
Mary Shelley
Countee Cullen
Edgar Allan Poe
CS Lewis
29. 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
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Henry David Thoreau
Virginia Woolf
Robinson Crusoe
30. 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
Lord of the Flies
Kate Chopin
Jane Austen
Crime and Punishment
31. Wrote Watership Down
Richard Adams
Macbeth
Louisa May Alcott
Lois Lowry
32. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
Washington Irving
Ernest Hemingway
Alice Walker
Sylvia Plath
33. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
Ben Mikaelson
JD Salinger
Oscar Wilde
Lois Lowry
34. Wrote The Yearling
Avi
Holes
Frederick Douglass
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
35. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Caroline Cooney
Henry David Thoreau
Countee Cullen
Wendy Towle
36. Gothic novel; a scientist creates a monster - and then abandons it in horror - a decision that leads to disaster and the deaths of nearly everyone he loves
The Red Badge of Courage
Frankenstein
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Aurora Leigh
37. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Herman Melville
Ruth Avi
Robert Cormier
Ray Bradbury
38. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
Edith Wharton
Harper Lee
HG Wells
John Keats
39. Wrote Charlotte's Web
Their Eyes Were Watching God
EB White
Ernest Hemingway
S.E. Hinton
40. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lord Byron
Little Women
TS Eliot
41. 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.
'Self - Reliance'
HG Wells
The Aeneid
Jane Eyre
42. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Lois Lowry
The Joy Luck Club
Caroline Cooney
Countee Cullen
43. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
Charles Dickens
Zora Neale Hurston
Mildred Taylor
Mark Twain
44. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Langston Hughes
Sylvia Plath
Gary Paulson
45. Wrote The Hobbit
Mary Shelley
JRR Tolkein
Ben Mikaelson
To Kill a Mockingbird
46. 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
Virgil
The Joy Luck Club
Patricia Maclachlan
Beloved
47. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
Aphra Behn
Mildred Taylor
Robinson Crusoe
Oscar Wilde
48. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
William Golding
Macbeth
Caroline Cooney
Jerry Spinelli
49. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Watership Down
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Sharon Creech
50. Wrote Night
SE Hinton
Zora Neale Hurston
Elie Wiesel
Mark Twain
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