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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. 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 Bell Jar
Scott O'Dell
Sharon Creech
William Wordsworth
2. Wrote The Great Gatsby
Leo Tolstoy
Jane Eyre
Oscar Wilde
F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
Virginia Woolf
Mary Downing Hahn
SE Hinton
The Bell Jar
4. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
George Orwell
Wendy Towle
The Outsiders
The Red Badge of Courage
5. An impoverished young woman (Jane) struggles to maintain her autonomy in the face of oppression - prejudice - and love; Gothic novel - bildungsroman - social portest novel
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Virginia Woolf
Jane Eyre
Amy Tan
6. 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
Robert Frost
Scott O'Dell
Charles Dickens
Zora Neale Hurston
7. A man is shipwrecked on an island - where he lives for more than 20 years - fending off cannibals and creating a pleasant life for himself
Lord Byron
Robinson Crusoe
Frankenstein
Ray Bradbury
8. 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
David Copperfield
Jean Craighead George
Emily Dickinson
9. 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
Lord Byron
Lois Lowry
Nathaniel Hawthorne
10. Wrote The Outsiders
Mark Twain
Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Waldo Emerson
SE Hinton
11. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
Willa Cather
Maya Angelou
Robert Cormier
JRR Tolkein
12. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
Mark Twain
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Ben Mikaelson
Louisa May Alcott
13. Wrote Hatchet
Gary Paulson
Moby Dick
Sylvia Plath
Ruth Avi
14. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Lord Byron
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
John Keats
Anna Karenina
15. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
Holes
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Katherine Patterson
Fyodor Dostoevsky
16. Wrote Doctor Faustus
HG Wells
Anna Karenina
Christopher Marlowe
Ralph Waldo Emerson
17. 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
The Joy Luck Club
The Call of the Wild
Lord Byron
Mary Downing Hahn
18. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
Toni Morrison
Sylvia Plath
JD Salinger
Little Women
19. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Ernest Hemingway
The Catcher in the Rye
Ray Bradbury
Helen Keller
20. 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
Aphra Behn
George Orwell
Edgar Allan Poe
Herman Melville
21. Wrote Little Women; American novelist
Louisa May Alcott
Ester Forbes
Alice In Wonderland
William Armstrong
22. 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
Jean Craighead George
Countee Cullen
Nancy Farmer
Their Eyes Were Watching God
23. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Sharon Creech
Ruth Avi
Edgar Allan Poe
Walt Whitman
24. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
The Aeneid
Anne Bradstreet
Ernest Hemingway
John Keats
25. 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
Carl Hiaason
Helen Keller
Frederick Douglass
26. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Virgil
Jean Craighead George
Elie Wiesel
Louisa May Alcott
27. 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
Crime and Punishment
Moby Dick
Walt Whitman
Mary Shelley
28. 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
Alice Walker
Beowulf
Carl Hiaason
29. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Kate Dicamillo
Johann David Wyss
Jerry Spinelli
30. Wrote Charlotte's Web
Christopher Paul Curtis
EB White
Harper Lee
Katherine Patterson
31. Wrote Sounder
Herman Melville
Farenheit 451
William Armstrong
Macbeth
32. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
Katherine Patterson
Watership Down
Charles Dickens
The Pigman
33. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Maya Angelou
Caroline Cooney
Watership Down
Jean Craighead George
34. 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
Not Without Laughter
Watership Down
Robert Frost
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
35. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty
Percy Bysshe Shelley
William Shakespeare
Patricia Maclachlan
Lord of the Flies
36. Wrote Hoot
Richard Adams
Carl Hiaason
To Kill a Mockingbird
Anne Frank
37. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Lois Lowry
JD Salinger
Aphra Behn
Beowulf
38. Wrote Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
Scott O'Dell
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Mildred Taylor
39. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
Mary Shelley
Mary Downing Hahn
William Butler Yeats
The Joy Luck Club
40. 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
Walter Dean Myers
Moby Dick
Carl Hiaason
William Golding
41. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
Ruth Avi
Crime and Punishment
Frederick Douglass
Nancy Farmer
42. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
Louis Sacher
Louisa May Alcott
Ruth Avi
Geoffrey Chaucer
43. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Mildred Taylor
Sylvia Plath
Avi
Edgar Allan Poe
44. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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45. Wrote The Hobbit
Washington Irving
Sandra Cisneros
JRR Tolkein
Wendy Towle
46. Wrote The Lion - the Witch - and the Wardrobe
Stephen Crane
CS Lewis
Crime and Punishment
Emily Dickinson
47. 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.
Karen Hesse
Crime and Punishment
The Aeneid
Ester Forbes
48. 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
The Joy Luck Club
Langston Hughes
JD Salinger
F. Scott Fitzgerald
49. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
William Butler Yeats
Sharon Creech
Lewis Carroll
Mary Shelley
50. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird; American author
George Orwell
Anna Karenina
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee