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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. 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
The Red Badge of Courage
Sonnet 18
Not Without Laughter
David Copperfield
2. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Sonnet 18
Toni Morrison
Frankenstein
'Civil Disobedience'
3. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
HG Wells
Avi
Anne Bradstreet
Elie Wiesel
4. 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
Crime and Punishment
Wendy Towle
Scott O'Dell
Ben Mikaelson
5. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
William Shakespeare
Amy Tan
Sandra Cisneros
Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
Anne Frank
James Joyce
The Catcher in the Rye
Charles Dickens
7. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Sonnet 18
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jerry Spinelli
The Aeneid
8. Wrote Johnny Tremain
Walter Dean Myers
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ester Forbes
The Aeneid
9. 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'
Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
'Civil Disobedience'
TS Eliot
10. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Lord of the Flies
Richard Adams
11. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
Henry David Thoreau
Countee Cullen
Virginia Woolf
Sylvia Plath
12. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Frederick Douglass
Harper Lee
Jean Craighead George
Little Women
13. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Mary Downing Hahn
Jane Eyre
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Amy Tan
14. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Macbeth
Jane Eyre
John Keats
15. 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
Wendy Towle
Beowulf
The Outsiders
Oscar Wilde
16. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
Watership Down
Anne Frank
Nancy Farmer
The Great Gatsby
17. 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
Scott O'Dell
Beowulf
Lord Byron
Percy Bysshe Shelley
18. Wrote Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Mary Downing Hahn
Animal Farm
19. Wrote Roll of Thunder
Animal Farm
Jane Eyre
Edith Wharton
Mildred Taylor
20. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Mary Downing Hahn
Zora Neale Hurston
The Call of the Wild
Leo Tolstoy
21. Wrote Hoot
Carl Hiaason
TS Eliot
Moby Dick
Richard Adams
22. 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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23. 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
Ruth Avi
William Wordsworth
David Copperfield
Kate Dicamillo
24. An impoverished young woman (Jane) struggles to maintain her autonomy in the face of oppression - prejudice - and love; Gothic novel - bildungsroman - social portest novel
Anna Karenina
Lord Byron
Robert Cormier
Jane Eyre
25. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Karen Hesse
Richard Adams
Walter Dean Myers
Wendy Towle
26. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
EB White
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Geoffrey Chaucer
Robert Frost
27. 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.
Leo Tolstoy
Walt Whitman
Sandra Cisneros
The Aeneid
28. Wrote Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Mansfield Park - et al.
Jane Austen
TS Eliot
1984
The Joy Luck Club
29. 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
Edgar Allan Poe
Walter Dean Myers
Farenheit 451
The Aeneid
30. Wrote Maniac Magee
Animal Farm
Walt Whitman
Jerry Spinelli
Katherine Patterson
31. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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32. 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
Beloved
The Joy Luck Club
Mary Shelley
Oscar Wilde
33. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
George Orwell
The Call of the Wild
Richard Adams
Willa Cather
34. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
Sandra Cisneros
Not Without Laughter
James Joyce
Charles Dickens
35. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
Gary Paulson
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Frederick Douglass
Alice In Wonderland
36. Wrote The Glory Field
Ben Mikaelson
Walter Dean Myers
Louisa May Alcott
S.E. Hinton
37. Wrote Charlotte's Web
Christopher Paul Curtis
Ben Mikaelson
Carl Hiaason
EB White
38. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist
The Bell Jar
Henry David Thoreau
Oscar Wilde
Emily Bronte
39. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
William Armstrong
Leo Tolstoy
Avi
Madeline L'Engle
40. 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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41. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
Charlotte Bronte
Stephen Crane
JD Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
42. Told in chapters alternating from Lorraine's and John's point of view - opens with an 'Oath -' signed by both John and Lorraine - two high school sophomores - in which they swear to tell only the facts - in this 'memorial epic' about their experience
Kate Chopin
The Pigman
JD Salinger
Sylvia Plath
43. Wrote Sounder
Toni Morrison
Aphra Behn
William Armstrong
Christopher Marlowe
44. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Sylvia Plath
Aphra Behn
Moby Dick
Alice Walker
45. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
Anne Frank
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Walt Whitman
Harper Lee
46. 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
John Keats
Countee Cullen
Edgar Allan Poe
Charles Dickens
47. Wrote The Hobbit
Robert Cormier
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Elizabeth George Speare
JRR Tolkein
48. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
F. Scott Fitzgerald
John Keats
Johann David Wyss
Katherine Patterson
49. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
SE Hinton
William Armstrong
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
'Civil Disobedience'
50. Wrote Hatchet
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Leo Tolstoy
Gary Paulson
Virgil