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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote Watership Down
Johann David Wyss
James Joyce
Richard Adams
Frederick Douglass
2. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
Zora Neale Hurston
Langston Hughes
Nancy Farmer
Virgil
3. 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
Sharon Creech
Lewis Carroll
The Aeneid
The Outsiders
4. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
William Shakespeare
Jerry Spinelli
Jean Craighead George
Mildred Taylor
5. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Carl Hiaason
Johann David Wyss
Harper Lee
The Great Gatsby
6. 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
The Pigman
S.E. Hinton
The Great Gatsby
Louisa May Alcott
7. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Ruth Avi
The Outsiders
Jane Austen
Virgil
8. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
SE Hinton
Anne Frank
Virginia Woolf
Kate Dicamillo
9. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Lois Lowry
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Catcher in the Rye
Madeline L'Engle
10. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
Patricia Maclachlan
Louis Sacher
William Wordsworth
Holes
11. 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
Ralph Waldo Emerson
James Joyce
Watership Down
Sonnet 18
12. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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13. 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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14. Wrote The House on Mango Street
Herman Melville
'In Reference to her Children'
Sandra Cisneros
Moby Dick
15. Wrote A Wrinkle in Time - A Swiftly Tilting Planet - A Wind in the Door - The Small Rain - 24 Days before Christmas
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16. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty
Johann David Wyss
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Amy Tan
Lord of the Flies
17. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Jack London
Ray Bradbury
Maya Angelou
HG Wells
18. 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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19. Wrote The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton
William Butler Yeats
Patricia Maclachlan
William Shakespeare
20. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Amy Tan
Emily Bronte
Moby Dick
1984
21. 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
The Great Gatsby
Herman Melville
Mark Twain
22. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
HG Wells
Christopher Marlowe
Leo Tolstoy
Anne Frank
23. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Jane Austen
The Call of the Wild
Sandra Cisneros
Anne Frank
24. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
Washington Irving
Walter Dean Myers
To Kill a Mockingbird
Virginia Woolf
25. 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
The Pigman
1984
John Keats
Animal Farm
26. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
Emily Dickinson
Alice In Wonderland
Charles Dickens
Johann David Wyss
27. 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
'Civil Disobedience'
Alice Walker
Not Without Laughter
Aurora Leigh
28. 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
Charles Dickens
1984
Carl Hiaason
Sharon Creech
29. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
Frederick Douglass
Charles Dickens
Kate Dicamillo
Nathaniel Hawthorne
30. 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
Sonnet 18
Beowulf
S.E. Hinton
Farenheit 451
31. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
William Golding
Little Women
Richard Adams
Crime and Punishment
32. '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
Jane Eyre
Robinson Crusoe
1984
Sonnet 18
33. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
John Keats
1984
Mark Twain
Beloved
34. 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
Christopher Marlowe
Moby Dick
Charlotte Bronte
William Armstrong
35. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
The Call of the Wild
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Robert Frost
William Golding
36. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird; American author
1984
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Little Women
Harper Lee
37. 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
Elie Wiesel
The Pigman
The Picture of Dorian Gray
38. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Christopher Marlowe
Macbeth
To Kill a Mockingbird
39. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
William Butler Yeats
Alice Walker
Aphra Behn
Emily Dickinson
40. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Picture of Dorian Gray
HG Wells
Lord Byron
41. 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
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Animal Farm
'Civil Disobedience'
Edgar Allan Poe
42. 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
Little Women
'In Reference to her Children'
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Madeline L'Engle
43. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
Beloved
Mary Shelley
Helen Keller
Johann David Wyss
44. 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
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Kate Dicamillo
The Joy Luck Club
Langston Hughes
45. Wrote Ethan Frome
The Pigman
Beowulf
Edith Wharton
Little Women
46. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Mildred Taylor
Little Women
Washington Irving
Avi
47. Wrote Hoot
Sandra Cisneros
Carl Hiaason
Anne Bradstreet
Ray Bradbury
48. 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
Countee Cullen
Mary Shelley
Robinson Crusoe
Not Without Laughter
49. 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
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Mildred Taylor
Elie Wiesel
The Catcher in the Rye
50. 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
David Copperfield
Aphra Behn
Lord Byron
To Kill a Mockingbird
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