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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote Little Women; American novelist
The Pigman
Louisa May Alcott
Toni Morrison
Paul Zindel
2. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
Louis Sacher
1984
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Fyodor Dostoevsky
3. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
Aurora Leigh
John Keats
The Picture of Dorian Gray
William Wordsworth
4. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
EB White
Ray Bradbury
William Golding
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
5. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
Jerry Spinelli
Patricia Maclachlan
Sylvia Plath
Karen Hesse
6. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
'Self - Reliance'
'Civil Disobedience'
The Outsiders
Fyodor Dostoevsky
7. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Sharon Creech
Elie Wiesel
Crime and Punishment
William Armstrong
8. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
Caroline Cooney
Lord Byron
9. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Johann David Wyss
Louis Sacher
CS Lewis
Daniel Defoe
10. Wrote Out of the Dust
Countee Cullen
Macbeth
Christopher Marlowe
Karen Hesse
11. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Toni Morrison
Geoffrey Chaucer
Oscar Wilde
Little Women
12. 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
Zora Neale Hurston
The Red Badge of Courage
Watership Down
Macbeth
13. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Sharon Creech
Beowulf
The Joy Luck Club
Mary Shelley
14. Wrote The Aeneid
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Daniel Defoe
Walter Dean Myers
Virgil
15. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Robert Frost
Aurora Leigh
Anne Bradstreet
16. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
The Joy Luck Club
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Ernest Hemingway
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
17. An impoverished young woman (Jane) struggles to maintain her autonomy in the face of oppression - prejudice - and love; Gothic novel - bildungsroman - social portest novel
Jean Craighead George
Mildred Taylor
Jane Eyre
The Giver
18. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
'In Reference to her Children'
Elizabeth George Speare
Helen Keller
The Catcher in the Rye
19. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Frederick Douglass
Walt Whitman
Gary Paulson
Amy Tan
20. Wrote The Pigman
'In Reference to her Children'
Ray Bradbury
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Paul Zindel
21. Wrote 'On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer -' 'To Autumn -' and 'Bright Star - Would I Were Stedfast As Thou Art;' English poet in Romantic movement during early 19th century; motifs include departures and reveries - the five sense and art - and th
Alice Walker
Johann David Wyss
George Orwell
John Keats
22. 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
Jack London
Robert Frost
Their Eyes Were Watching God
David Copperfield
23. Wrote Hoot
Carl Hiaason
Katherine Patterson
Kate Dicamillo
Zora Neale Hurston
24. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
Alice In Wonderland
Christopher Paul Curtis
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Ben Mikaelson
25. 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.
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Lewis Carroll
David Copperfield
The Aeneid
26. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
S.E. Hinton
HG Wells
William Armstrong
Ester Forbes
27. 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
Johann David Wyss
Moby Dick
Katherine Patterson
Countee Cullen
28. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
1984
Mary Downing Hahn
Leo Tolstoy
Walt Whitman
29. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
1984
Geoffrey Chaucer
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
30. 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
The Giver
Stephen Crane
Robert Cormier
Beloved
31. 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
Elie Wiesel
EB White
Louis Sacher
David Copperfield
32. 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
Oscar Wilde
Not Without Laughter
Christopher Marlowe
The Joy Luck Club
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
Virginia Woolf
The Outsiders
John Keats
Ruth Avi
34. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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35. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Ernest Hemingway
Anna Karenina
Robert Frost
The Pigman
36. 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
Emily Dickinson
Christopher Paul Curtis
'In Reference to her Children'
Countee Cullen
37. Wrote Johnny Tremain
Jean Craighead George
The Catcher in the Rye
Sharon Creech
Ester Forbes
38. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
The Aeneid
Avi
Paul Zindel
1984
39. Wrote The Yearling
William Butler Yeats
Sharon Creech
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
40. Wrote The Chocolate War
Aphra Behn
Mildred Taylor
Paul Zindel
Robert Cormier
41. 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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42. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
Animal Farm
JD Salinger
Charlotte Bronte
Crime and Punishment
43. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
Christopher Paul Curtis
Mary Downing Hahn
Little Women
Alice In Wonderland
44. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
Zora Neale Hurston
The Bell Jar
EB White
Fyodor Dostoevsky
45. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
Zora Neale Hurston
Jack London
Washington Irving
Virginia Woolf
46. Wrote Ethan Frome
Christopher Marlowe
Edith Wharton
Henry David Thoreau
Karen Hesse
47. Wrote The Great Gatsby
Ray Bradbury
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Holes
Emily Dickinson
48. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
HG Wells
William Wordsworth
Willa Cather
Edgar Allan Poe
49. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
William Butler Yeats
Katherine Patterson
Helen Keller
Virginia Woolf
50. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
Helen Keller
Sharon Creech
Anna Karenina
William Golding