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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. 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
Animal Farm
Mary Downing Hahn
Ernest Hemingway
Aurora Leigh
2. 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
Not Without Laughter
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Jerry Spinelli
Christopher Paul Curtis
3. 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate;' Shakespearean couplet with ABAB CDCE EFEF GG rhyme scheme
John Keats
Sonnet 18
Alice Walker
Edgar Allan Poe
4. Gothic novel; a scientist creates a monster - and then abandons it in horror - a decision that leads to disaster and the deaths of nearly everyone he loves
Frankenstein
Beloved
Henry David Thoreau
John Keats
5. 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
John Keats
Madeline L'Engle
Frederick Douglass
Holes
6. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Little Women
Virgil
The Great Gatsby
Avi
7. 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
Maya Angelou
The Outsiders
Leo Tolstoy
S.E. Hinton
8. 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.
Lord of the Flies
William Wordsworth
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Aeneid
9. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Robert Frost
Scott O'Dell
Christopher Paul Curtis
Sandra Cisneros
10. Wrote Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Mansfield Park - et al.
Jane Austen
S.E. Hinton
Alice In Wonderland
Zora Neale Hurston
11. Wrote Wuthering Heights
Stephen Crane
Helen Keller
Emily Bronte
Robinson Crusoe
12. Wrote Sonnet 18 - Hamlet - and Macbeth; greatest playwright who ever lived - prolific poet - known for sonnets
William Shakespeare
TS Eliot
Gary Paulson
The Catcher in the Rye
13. 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
HG Wells
Harper Lee
CS Lewis
Macbeth
14. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Christopher Marlowe
Jane Austen
Ray Bradbury
Jerry Spinelli
15. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Aphra Behn
SE Hinton
The Picture of Dorian Gray
16. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
Lord of the Flies
The Giver
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Washington Irving
17. Wrote Shiloh
The Outsiders
Oscar Wilde
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
JRR Tolkein
18. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird; American author
William Armstrong
Mary Downing Hahn
Harper Lee
Aurora Leigh
19. 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
Little Women
Zora Neale Hurston
The Catcher in the Rye
Washington Irving
20. 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
Frankenstein
Robinson Crusoe
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Farenheit 451
21. Wrote The Hobbit
Wendy Towle
Alice In Wonderland
JRR Tolkein
Ben Mikaelson
22. 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
SE Hinton
Anne Frank
The Pigman
Sandra Cisneros
23. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Mary Downing Hahn
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Lord Byron
Amy Tan
24. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
25. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
The Great Gatsby
Robert Cormier
The Pigman
The Outsiders
26. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
Walt Whitman
Mildred Taylor
Beloved
EB White
27. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
Langston Hughes
Lewis Carroll
Walt Whitman
Percy Bysshe Shelley
28. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Ben Mikaelson
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
29. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
Elizabeth George Speare
EB White
Edgar Allan Poe
Charles Dickens
30. 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
Lois Lowry
Watership Down
Amy Tan
Mary Shelley
31. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
Jane Austen
Elizabeth George Speare
William Shakespeare
Aphra Behn
32. Wrote The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Robinson Crusoe
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
33. 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
Emily Dickinson
Maya Angelou
Carl Hiaason
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
34. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Patterson
Sandra Cisneros
Louis Sacher
The Call of the Wild
35. Wrote Charlotte's Web
Anne Frank
Emily Dickinson
EB White
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
36. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Scott O'Dell
HG Wells
SE Hinton
37. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
Robert Cormier
Katherine Patterson
Patricia Maclachlan
JRR Tolkein
38. 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
The Great Gatsby
James Joyce
Ester Forbes
William Wordsworth
39. 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
CS Lewis
Mildred Taylor
Jane Austen
40. Wrote Little Women; American novelist
Willa Cather
Jerry Spinelli
Wendy Towle
Louisa May Alcott
41. Wrote Johnny Tremain
Beowulf
Sandra Cisneros
Anne Bradstreet
Ester Forbes
42. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
Harper Lee
Little Women
Ruth Avi
Jane Austen
43. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
TS Eliot
Aurora Leigh
Walt Whitman
Percy Bysshe Shelley
44. Wrote The House on Mango Street
Charlotte Bronte
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sandra Cisneros
Patricia Maclachlan
45. An impoverished young woman (Jane) struggles to maintain her autonomy in the face of oppression - prejudice - and love; Gothic novel - bildungsroman - social portest novel
Anne Frank
Virginia Woolf
Mary Downing Hahn
Jane Eyre
46. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
Leo Tolstoy
Moby Dick
Virginia Woolf
Sylvia Plath
47. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
HG Wells
The Joy Luck Club
Crime and Punishment
Leo Tolstoy
48. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Macbeth
Geoffrey Chaucer
Frederick Douglass
Anna Karenina
49. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
CS Lewis
Amy Tan
Ester Forbes
JD Salinger
50. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Virginia Woolf
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Daniel Defoe
JD Salinger