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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. 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
Toni Morrison
Edgar Allan Poe
Johann David Wyss
Farenheit 451
2. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
Caroline Cooney
'Self - Reliance'
Lord of the Flies
Nathaniel Hawthorne
3. Wrote The Yearling
Little Women
Anna Karenina
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Robert Frost
4. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Great Gatsby
Kate Chopin
HG Wells
5. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Christopher Paul Curtis
Walt Whitman
Holes
Alice In Wonderland
6. Maintains the bird metaphor throughout the poem's ninety - six lines - describing the various 'flights' of five of her children and her concerns about those remaining in the nest
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7. Wrote Little Women; American novelist
Louisa May Alcott
The Giver
Alice In Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
8. 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
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Harper Lee
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Beowulf
9. Wrote The Outsiders
SE Hinton
Ruth Avi
Charles Dickens
Amy Tan
10. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
Zora Neale Hurston
Ruth Avi
Holes
Charles Dickens
11. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Herman Melville
Leo Tolstoy
Sharon Creech
Louisa May Alcott
12. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
Walter Dean Myers
TS Eliot
Daniel Defoe
The Aeneid
13. Wrote Watership Down
Richard Adams
Beloved
Avi
Louis Sacher
14. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
Christopher Paul Curtis
Caroline Cooney
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Red Badge of Courage
15. Wrote The Glory Field
Richard Adams
Ray Bradbury
Walter Dean Myers
Their Eyes Were Watching God
16. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
George Orwell
Gary Paulson
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Johann David Wyss
17. Wrote Holes
Edgar Allan Poe
Sonnet 18
Not Without Laughter
Louis Sacher
18. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Sandra Cisneros
Mary Shelley
Mildred Taylor
19. Wrote Hatchet
Not Without Laughter
To Kill a Mockingbird
Gary Paulson
The Call of the Wild
20. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
The Call of the Wild
'In Reference to her Children'
Oscar Wilde
Wendy Towle
21. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism
Anne Bradstreet
The Bell Jar
Lord Byron
Geoffrey Chaucer
22. Wrote Charlotte's Web
Sylvia Plath
Virginia Woolf
Amy Tan
EB White
23. 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
James Joyce
William Wordsworth
The Outsiders
EB White
24. 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
Zora Neale Hurston
Stephen Crane
Virginia Woolf
Percy Bysshe Shelley
25. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
Virgil
Christopher Paul Curtis
David Copperfield
Kate Dicamillo
26. 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
Jean Craighead George
Avi
The Joy Luck Club
Nathaniel Hawthorne
27. Wrote The Outsiders
Ruth Avi
Mildred Taylor
Johann David Wyss
S.E. Hinton
28. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
Herman Melville
Jerry Spinelli
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
The Bell Jar
29. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
To Kill a Mockingbird
Nancy Farmer
Alice In Wonderland
Charlotte Bronte
30. 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
The Outsiders
Alice Walker
Anne Frank
JD Salinger
31. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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32. 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;
The Giver
1984
Ernest Hemingway
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
33. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Avi
Henry David Thoreau
Emily Bronte
Crime and Punishment
34. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
Holes
Sonnet 18
JD Salinger
Amy Tan
35. 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'
Ernest Hemingway
Langston Hughes
JRR Tolkein
Mildred Taylor
36. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
Sylvia Plath
Charlotte Bronte
1984
Wendy Towle
37. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Anna Karenina
Ray Bradbury
Little Women
'Self - Reliance'
38. 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
James Joyce
'Self - Reliance'
1984
Edgar Allan Poe
39. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
William Golding
Daniel Defoe
Gary Paulson
James Joyce
40. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Helen Keller
Mary Downing Hahn
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Macbeth
41. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Little Women
Jean Craighead George
David Copperfield
Christopher Paul Curtis
42. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist
Paul Zindel
Beowulf
'Civil Disobedience'
Henry David Thoreau
43. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Holes
Walter Dean Myers
Toni Morrison
'In Reference to her Children'
44. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
Countee Cullen
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Jack London
Walt Whitman
45. 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
Watership Down
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
'Self - Reliance'
Oscar Wilde
46. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
Louisa May Alcott
Ernest Hemingway
Anne Bradstreet
Patricia Maclachlan
47. 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
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Caroline Cooney
Robert Frost
48. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
Elizabeth George Speare
Henry David Thoreau
Anne Bradstreet
The Red Badge of Courage
49. 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
Holes
Not Without Laughter
The Catcher in the Rye
Watership Down
50. 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
Alice In Wonderland
Elie Wiesel
Frankenstein
TS Eliot
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