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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
Frederick Douglass
George Orwell
Louisa May Alcott
Sharon Creech
2. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Henry David Thoreau
Nancy Farmer
Ray Bradbury
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
3. Wrote Out of the Dust
Karen Hesse
'In Reference to her Children'
Mary Downing Hahn
Kate Chopin
4. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Emily Dickinson
Mary Downing Hahn
Animal Farm
Charles Dickens
5. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
The Outsiders
CS Lewis
Ben Mikaelson
6. Wrote The Glory Field
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Ernest Hemingway
Lord Byron
Walter Dean Myers
7. 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
Countee Cullen
Mildred Taylor
Elie Wiesel
Lord Byron
8. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism
Christopher Marlowe
Lord Byron
Paul Zindel
Emily Dickinson
9. 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
'Civil Disobedience'
Gary Paulson
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
The Pigman
10. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
Alice Walker
Avi
Crime and Punishment
To Kill a Mockingbird
11. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
Farenheit 451
The Bell Jar
Lois Lowry
'Self - Reliance'
12. Wrote Hatchet
Gary Paulson
Jerry Spinelli
Alice Walker
Beloved
13. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
Countee Cullen
Kate Chopin
Lewis Carroll
Karen Hesse
14. 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
Elizabeth George Speare
The Catcher in the Rye
William Wordsworth
EB White
15. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Sylvia Plath
Toni Morrison
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Elizabeth George Speare
16. 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
Beowulf
HG Wells
Sylvia Plath
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
17. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Richard Adams
Caroline Cooney
Anna Karenina
Mary Shelley
18. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
The Aeneid
Beloved
Frederick Douglass
Ernest Hemingway
19. Wrote Watership Down
Sandra Cisneros
Mary Shelley
Richard Adams
Holes
20. 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
1984
The Red Badge of Courage
John Keats
Louisa May Alcott
21. 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
Johann David Wyss
TS Eliot
Holes
The Outsiders
22. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
Patricia Maclachlan
David Copperfield
Edgar Allan Poe
Nancy Farmer
23. 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
TS Eliot
The Red Badge of Courage
Mildred Taylor
24. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
Beowulf
Robinson Crusoe
The Great Gatsby
Alice In Wonderland
25. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
EB White
Anne Frank
Patricia Maclachlan
Ester Forbes
26. 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
Nathaniel Hawthorne
TS Eliot
1984
27. 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
Patricia Maclachlan
The Call of the Wild
Virginia Woolf
Carl Hiaason
28. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
Nancy Farmer
Leo Tolstoy
Mildred Taylor
Alice Walker
29. Wrote Jane Eyre
Henry David Thoreau
Charlotte Bronte
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Carl Hiaason
30. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
JRR Tolkein
Watership Down
Charles Dickens
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
31. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
Leo Tolstoy
Washington Irving
Louis Sacher
Nathaniel Hawthorne
32. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
Jack London
Elizabeth George Speare
Christopher Paul Curtis
Emily Bronte
33. 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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34. 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
Sylvia Plath
Beowulf
Macbeth
Emily Dickinson
35. Wrote Johnny Tremain
Henry David Thoreau
The Catcher in the Rye
Ester Forbes
Lord Byron
36. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist
Beloved
Not Without Laughter
Jane Austen
Henry David Thoreau
37. 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
Alice In Wonderland
Robert Frost
Ray Bradbury
Watership Down
38. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Lois Lowry
Moby Dick
JD Salinger
Ruth Avi
39. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe
Lord Byron
EB White
'Civil Disobedience'
Beloved
40. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Ruth Avi
Johann David Wyss
William Butler Yeats
Lois Lowry
41. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Caroline Cooney
Edgar Allan Poe
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Louisa May Alcott
42. Wrote Maniac Magee
Walter Dean Myers
Jerry Spinelli
To Kill a Mockingbird
Fyodor Dostoevsky
43. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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44. Wrote The Pigman
HG Wells
Holes
Moby Dick
Paul Zindel
45. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
Herman Melville
Mary Downing Hahn
Washington Irving
Anne Bradstreet
46. 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
Leo Tolstoy
Crime and Punishment
Watership Down
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
47. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Madeline L'Engle
Charlotte Bronte
Lord of the Flies
Avi
48. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Aeneid
Little Women
Anne Frank
49. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Patterson
Leo Tolstoy
Patricia Maclachlan
Harper Lee
50. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird; American author
Henry David Thoreau
Mildred Taylor
Nancy Farmer
Harper Lee