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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. 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
Walt Whitman
'Self - Reliance'
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
2. Wrote The Aeneid
Sandra Cisneros
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
The Bell Jar
Virgil
3. Wrote Hoot
Kate Chopin
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Carl Hiaason
William Butler Yeats
4. Wrote Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Mansfield Park - et al.
Edgar Allan Poe
Jane Austen
Jean Craighead George
Nathaniel Hawthorne
5. 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
Washington Irving
Ray Bradbury
Robinson Crusoe
David Copperfield
6. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Johann David Wyss
Oscar Wilde
Mark Twain
'Self - Reliance'
7. Wrote The Glory Field
Virgil
Lord of the Flies
Walter Dean Myers
1984
8. 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
Not Without Laughter
Helen Keller
The Bell Jar
Countee Cullen
9. 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
Jerry Spinelli
Sharon Creech
Anne Frank
Edgar Allan Poe
10. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
Jack London
James Joyce
William Golding
Kate Chopin
11. 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
Robert Cormier
Gary Paulson
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Call of the Wild
12. 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.
Beloved
Mark Twain
The Aeneid
William Golding
13. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
Scott O'Dell
Caroline Cooney
Sylvia Plath
William Wordsworth
14. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Karen Hesse
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Aphra Behn
Jane Eyre
15. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
Scott O'Dell
Richard Adams
Lois Lowry
JD Salinger
16. 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
Madeline L'Engle
Crime and Punishment
The Red Badge of Courage
Leo Tolstoy
17. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Toni Morrison
William Shakespeare
Edgar Allan Poe
JRR Tolkein
18. 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
Emily Dickinson
Toni Morrison
Harper Lee
Stephen Crane
19. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist
Emily Bronte
Kate Chopin
Henry David Thoreau
SE Hinton
20. Wrote The Yearling
Harper Lee
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Sharon Creech
Ernest Hemingway
21. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
Walt Whitman
Daniel Defoe
Elizabeth George Speare
Washington Irving
22. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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23. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
Sonnet 18
Mildred Taylor
Wendy Towle
Virginia Woolf
24. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Helen Keller
Sharon Creech
CS Lewis
25. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
John Keats
Kate Dicamillo
Karen Hesse
Sonnet 18
26. Wrote The Outsiders
SE Hinton
Beowulf
Wendy Towle
Christopher Marlowe
27. 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
Beloved
The Giver
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Langston Hughes
28. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
Maya Angelou
William Butler Yeats
Helen Keller
Scott O'Dell
29. 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
Their Eyes Were Watching God
John Keats
Holes
Edgar Allan Poe
30. 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
Farenheit 451
Jane Austen
The Pigman
Avi
31. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
Henry David Thoreau
Alice In Wonderland
Karen Hesse
The Bell Jar
32. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Oscar Wilde
Zora Neale Hurston
CS Lewis
The Aeneid
33. An impoverished young woman (Jane) struggles to maintain her autonomy in the face of oppression - prejudice - and love; Gothic novel - bildungsroman - social portest novel
Stephen Crane
Jane Eyre
The Red Badge of Courage
Lord Byron
34. Wrote The Awakening - The Storm; feminist author of the 20th century; born in St. Louis - Missouri
Madeline L'Engle
Virgil
Kate Chopin
Edith Wharton
35. Wrote The Chocolate War
Louis Sacher
Robert Cormier
1984
Geoffrey Chaucer
36. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Leo Tolstoy
Charlotte Bronte
HG Wells
37. 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
Elie Wiesel
Animal Farm
Anne Frank
Jane Eyre
38. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
The Giver
Lewis Carroll
Ruth Avi
The Picture of Dorian Gray
39. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
SE Hinton
George Orwell
Avi
John Keats
40. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nancy Farmer
Countee Cullen
William Butler Yeats
41. 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
Herman Melville
Emily Bronte
Elie Wiesel
42. Wrote The Hobbit
Ester Forbes
Jane Austen
JRR Tolkein
Scott O'Dell
43. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Farenheit 451
Wendy Towle
The Catcher in the Rye
Amy Tan
44. 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
Jane Austen
William Golding
The Outsiders
Henry David Thoreau
45. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Virginia Woolf
Walt Whitman
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ernest Hemingway
46. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
Moby Dick
Walt Whitman
The Red Badge of Courage
Charles Dickens
47. Wrote Jane Eyre
David Copperfield
Mary Shelley
Charlotte Bronte
SE Hinton
48. Wrote Johnny Tremain
Kate Dicamillo
Ester Forbes
'In Reference to her Children'
TS Eliot
49. 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'
Jean Craighead George
Ernest Hemingway
Willa Cather
The Picture of Dorian Gray
50. Bildungsroman; after being expelled from a prep school - a 16- year - old boy (Holden Caulfield) goes to NYC - where he reflects on the phoniness of adults and heads towards a nervous breakdown
Animal Farm
The Catcher in the Rye
Mark Twain
Carl Hiaason