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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. 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
The Catcher in the Rye
Jean Craighead George
TS Eliot
Ruth Avi
2. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
Mary Shelley
To Kill a Mockingbird
Anne Bradstreet
Leo Tolstoy
3. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
William Butler Yeats
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Elizabeth George Speare
The Call of the Wild
4. '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
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Sonnet 18
Wendy Towle
William Shakespeare
5. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
Mark Twain
Paul Zindel
Walt Whitman
Edith Wharton
6. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
Avi
Frederick Douglass
Emily Dickinson
The Pigman
7. Wrote The Aeneid
Sandra Cisneros
The Giver
Jane Eyre
Virgil
8. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
1984
Elie Wiesel
'In Reference to her Children'
Lewis Carroll
9. Wrote Shiloh
Watership Down
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
John Keats
Christopher Marlowe
10. Wrote Doctor Faustus
Jean Craighead George
Leo Tolstoy
Herman Melville
Christopher Marlowe
11. Wrote Maniac Magee
Wendy Towle
Jean Craighead George
Jerry Spinelli
Lewis Carroll
12. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Ester Forbes
Katherine Patterson
Wendy Towle
Maya Angelou
13. Wrote The Outsiders
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Patricia Maclachlan
S.E. Hinton
Anne Frank
14. Wrote Sounder
David Copperfield
Lord of the Flies
Harper Lee
William Armstrong
15. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
Robinson Crusoe
Sylvia Plath
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Bell Jar
16. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Beloved
Ben Mikaelson
Charlotte Bronte
Mary Shelley
17. 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
Mildred Taylor
Edith Wharton
David Copperfield
18. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Johann David Wyss
The Joy Luck Club
Caroline Cooney
19. 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
The Giver
Edgar Allan Poe
Anna Karenina
Lord Byron
20. 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
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Watership Down
Farenheit 451
Madeline L'Engle
21. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
EB White
Washington Irving
Aphra Behn
Toni Morrison
22. Wrote Hoot
Virginia Woolf
Carl Hiaason
S.E. Hinton
Charlotte Bronte
23. 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
Herman Melville
Frankenstein
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Emily Dickinson
24. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Karen Hesse
Henry David Thoreau
Anna Karenina
Stephen Crane
25. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty
Virginia Woolf
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Jane Austen
Lord of the Flies
26. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
27. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
JRR Tolkein
Caroline Cooney
Anne Frank
Jack London
28. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism
Lord Byron
The Red Badge of Courage
William Butler Yeats
Ruth Avi
29. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
Elizabeth George Speare
Geoffrey Chaucer
Langston Hughes
William Armstrong
30. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Jerry Spinelli
Toni Morrison
Elie Wiesel
William Butler Yeats
31. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
Lewis Carroll
Christopher Marlowe
Katherine Patterson
The Bell Jar
32. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Christopher Marlowe
Charlotte Bronte
S.E. Hinton
Leo Tolstoy
33. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
Kate Chopin
'In Reference to her Children'
William Butler Yeats
Little Women
34. 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
Lord of the Flies
Edith Wharton
'In Reference to her Children'
35. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Charles Dickens
Herman Melville
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Virgil
36. 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 Joy Luck Club
John Keats
The Call of the Wild
Jack London
37. 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
Scott O'Dell
The Joy Luck Club
Beowulf
Emily Dickinson
38. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
Not Without Laughter
Elie Wiesel
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Alice In Wonderland
39. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
Not Without Laughter
Alice In Wonderland
The Great Gatsby
William Golding
40. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Helen Keller
Lewis Carroll
Karen Hesse
Johann David Wyss
41. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
Wendy Towle
Madeline L'Engle
42. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Patricia Maclachlan
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Anne Bradstreet
Christopher Paul Curtis
43. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker
George Orwell
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Mary Shelley
44. Wrote Watership Down
John Keats
William Butler Yeats
Zora Neale Hurston
Richard Adams
45. Wrote Roll of Thunder
Elie Wiesel
Mildred Taylor
Jane Eyre
Kate Chopin
46. 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
47. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Christopher Marlowe
The Catcher in the Rye
Alice Walker
Johann David Wyss
48. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
Mildred Taylor
The Joy Luck Club
49. 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
Maya Angelou
Moby Dick
'Self - Reliance'
The Bell Jar
50. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Little Women
Christopher Marlowe
Virginia Woolf