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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote The Pigman
Paul Zindel
Patricia Maclachlan
Nathaniel Hawthorne
1984
2. Wrote Sonnet 18 - Hamlet - and Macbeth; greatest playwright who ever lived - prolific poet - known for sonnets
Aphra Behn
Walter Dean Myers
The Bell Jar
William Shakespeare
3. A group of animals mount a successful rebellion against the farmer who rules them - but their dreams of equality for all are ruined when one pig seizes power; novella - dystopian animal fable
Elizabeth George Speare
The Pigman
Animal Farm
Lord Byron
4. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Sharon Creech
Edith Wharton
Katherine Patterson
Zora Neale Hurston
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
'Civil Disobedience'
Ester Forbes
Stephen Crane
Sylvia Plath
6. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Robert Cormier
Aphra Behn
Helen Keller
William Butler Yeats
7. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Daniel Defoe
Emily Bronte
Toni Morrison
1984
8. An impoverished young woman (Jane) struggles to maintain her autonomy in the face of oppression - prejudice - and love; Gothic novel - bildungsroman - social portest novel
Jane Eyre
Alice Walker
Toni Morrison
Jerry Spinelli
9. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
'Civil Disobedience'
The Call of the Wild
Edgar Allan Poe
Mildred Taylor
10. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Sharon Creech
Amy Tan
Holes
Ralph Waldo Emerson
11. 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
Oscar Wilde
The Red Badge of Courage
Holes
Moby Dick
12. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
Willa Cather
Beloved
Zora Neale Hurston
The Call of the Wild
13. 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
Anne Bradstreet
The Joy Luck Club
The Call of the Wild
The Great Gatsby
14. Wrote Holes
Louis Sacher
The Catcher in the Rye
Crime and Punishment
Leo Tolstoy
15. 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
Ester Forbes
Avi
Emily Dickinson
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
16. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
Robinson Crusoe
Geoffrey Chaucer
EB White
Langston Hughes
17. Wrote Hoot
Holes
Beloved
Carl Hiaason
SE Hinton
18. heroic fantasy novel about a small group of British rabbits; Fiver - a young runt rabbit who is a seer - receives a frightening vision of his warren's imminent destruction
Robert Frost
Mildred Taylor
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Watership Down
19. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Zora Neale Hurston
The Call of the Wild
Mary Shelley
Helen Keller
20. 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
Aurora Leigh
Crime and Punishment
Charlotte Bronte
Percy Bysshe Shelley
21. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
The Pigman
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
William Armstrong
Stephen Crane
22. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
The Giver
Farenheit 451
John Keats
Little Women
23. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Kate Dicamillo
Maya Angelou
24. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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25. Wrote Doctor Faustus
Mark Twain
Christopher Marlowe
EB White
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
26. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
Aurora Leigh
David Copperfield
Amy Tan
William Shakespeare
27. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
Richard Adams
HG Wells
Johann David Wyss
Macbeth
28. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
Kate Dicamillo
Avi
Charles Dickens
Christopher Paul Curtis
29. 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
Ben Mikaelson
William Wordsworth
The Outsiders
'Self - Reliance'
30. Wrote Roll of Thunder
Mark Twain
Anna Karenina
Christopher Paul Curtis
Mildred Taylor
31. 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;
Aurora Leigh
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
HG Wells
The Giver
32. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
F. Scott Fitzgerald
SE Hinton
Johann David Wyss
Fyodor Dostoevsky
33. 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
Willa Cather
Beowulf
Ray Bradbury
Virginia Woolf
34. 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 Downing Hahn
The Catcher in the Rye
Amy Tan
Edgar Allan Poe
35. Wrote The Glory Field
The Aeneid
Daniel Defoe
Walter Dean Myers
Mary Shelley
36. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Carl Hiaason
The Aeneid
Alice Walker
Sonnet 18
37. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
Nancy Farmer
Walt Whitman
Charlotte Bronte
HG Wells
38. Wrote Hatchet
Patricia Maclachlan
Scott O'Dell
The Outsiders
Gary Paulson
39. Wrote 'The Road Not Taken;' American poet; highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech; won Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry four times
William Butler Yeats
Charlotte Bronte
Virginia Woolf
Robert Frost
40. Wrote Jane Eyre
Edgar Allan Poe
Christopher Paul Curtis
Washington Irving
Charlotte Bronte
41. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Moby Dick
Anne Bradstreet
The Joy Luck Club
42. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
Gary Paulson
Jane Eyre
Little Women
Lewis Carroll
43. 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
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Mildred Taylor
'Civil Disobedience'
44. 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
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Great Gatsby
The Pigman
45. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty
'Self - Reliance'
'Civil Disobedience'
Kate Dicamillo
Lord of the Flies
46. Wrote Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
Watership Down
Mildred Taylor
Anna Karenina
47. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
Zora Neale Hurston
Sandra Cisneros
TS Eliot
Virginia Woolf
48. 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
Carl Hiaason
Farenheit 451
Fyodor Dostoevsky
David Copperfield
49. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Patricia Maclachlan
William Wordsworth
Anna Karenina
James Joyce
50. 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
Lord Byron
Avi
Mary Downing Hahn