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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. 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
William Wordsworth
Mildred Taylor
The Outsiders
Holes
2. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Ray Bradbury
Henry David Thoreau
Herman Melville
Not Without Laughter
3. Inspired by witch's prophecy - a man murders his way to the throne of Scotland - but his conscience plagues him and his fellow lords rise up against him; themes: unchecked ambition as a corrupting force - relationship between cruelty and masculinity
JRR Tolkein
Louisa May Alcott
Macbeth
Jane Austen
4. 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.
The Aeneid
Virginia Woolf
The Catcher in the Rye
EB White
5. 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
Christopher Paul Curtis
Willa Cather
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Beowulf
6. Wrote The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton
Johann David Wyss
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Frankenstein
7. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
William Golding
Ray Bradbury
William Butler Yeats
Patricia Maclachlan
8. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
Robinson Crusoe
The Catcher in the Rye
Ben Mikaelson
Stephen Crane
9. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Toni Morrison
The Joy Luck Club
The Pigman
The Call of the Wild
10. Wrote The Yearling
Scott O'Dell
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
David Copperfield
HG Wells
11. 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
Helen Keller
Langston Hughes
John Keats
Paul Zindel
12. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
Carl Hiaason
Nancy Farmer
Washington Irving
The Giver
13. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Mary Downing Hahn
Christopher Marlowe
Emily Dickinson
Ray Bradbury
14. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
George Orwell
Ester Forbes
Animal Farm
Washington Irving
15. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
Carl Hiaason
Kate Chopin
Jack London
Nathaniel Hawthorne
16. An impoverished young woman (Jane) struggles to maintain her autonomy in the face of oppression - prejudice - and love; Gothic novel - bildungsroman - social portest novel
Jean Craighead George
Jane Eyre
Jack London
Ralph Waldo Emerson
17. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Virgil
The Call of the Wild
Wendy Towle
Elizabeth George Speare
18. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
Kate Dicamillo
Robert Cormier
Washington Irving
Nancy Farmer
19. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
Virgil
Anne Bradstreet
Lord of the Flies
Charlotte Bronte
20. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Geoffrey Chaucer
Maya Angelou
The Pigman
Herman Melville
21. Wrote Maniac Magee
Watership Down
Lewis Carroll
Elizabeth George Speare
Jerry Spinelli
22. 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
Alice In Wonderland
The Outsiders
Lois Lowry
Mark Twain
23. It is set in a future society which is at first presented as a utopian society and gradually appears more and more dystopian; therefore - it could be considered anti - utopian; the novel follows a boy named Jonas through the twelfth year of his life;
Not Without Laughter
TS Eliot
The Giver
Sylvia Plath
24. 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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25. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
Kate Chopin
Mary Shelley
The Bell Jar
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
26. 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
Virgil
Johann David Wyss
Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God
27. 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
The Joy Luck Club
Oscar Wilde
Caroline Cooney
1984
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
Edgar Allan Poe
CS Lewis
Ruth Avi
Farenheit 451
29. 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
Daniel Defoe
Ray Bradbury
Avi
The Pigman
30. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
Macbeth
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
SE Hinton
Zora Neale Hurston
31. 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
The Pigman
Madeline L'Engle
Edgar Allan Poe
32. Wrote Doctor Faustus
Lewis Carroll
Gary Paulson
Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Paul Curtis
33. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
Richard Adams
Carl Hiaason
William Butler Yeats
1984
34. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Henry David Thoreau
SE Hinton
Oscar Wilde
Alice Walker
35. Wrote Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Mansfield Park - et al.
Oscar Wilde
Robert Cormier
Jane Austen
Elizabeth George Speare
36. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Walt Whitman
Alice Walker
EB White
Maya Angelou
37. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
The Red Badge of Courage
Anna Karenina
Scott O'Dell
Ruth Avi
38. Wrote Night
Karen Hesse
Elie Wiesel
Lois Lowry
Anne Bradstreet
39. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Robinson Crusoe
Animal Farm
Mildred Taylor
Mary Shelley
40. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
Beowulf
Patricia Maclachlan
Henry David Thoreau
Little Women
41. Wrote Roll of Thunder
The Outsiders
Anne Frank
Mildred Taylor
Sandra Cisneros
42. Wrote The Glory Field
Sylvia Plath
Helen Keller
The Red Badge of Courage
Walter Dean Myers
43. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
Willa Cather
Stephen Crane
Ruth Avi
Robert Frost
44. Wrote The Outsiders
SE Hinton
Alice Walker
Mark Twain
Anna Karenina
45. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
William Armstrong
Sonnet 18
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ralph Waldo Emerson
46. 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
Virgil
Farenheit 451
Walter Dean Myers
S.E. Hinton
47. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Walt Whitman
Ernest Hemingway
Leo Tolstoy
Virgil
48. Wrote Sounder
Johann David Wyss
Animal Farm
Karen Hesse
William Armstrong
49. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
Mark Twain
Wendy Towle
William Butler Yeats
TS Eliot
50. Wrote Ethan Frome
To Kill a Mockingbird
Edith Wharton
Moby Dick
Zora Neale Hurston