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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. 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
Farenheit 451
William Armstrong
Mary Shelley
The Great Gatsby
2. Wrote The Aeneid
Ruth Avi
Virgil
Avi
Anna Karenina
3. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Toni Morrison
Wendy Towle
Mark Twain
Oscar Wilde
4. Wrote Night
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Elie Wiesel
Watership Down
Frederick Douglass
5. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Stephen Crane
Anna Karenina
Karen Hesse
Charlotte Bronte
6. Wrote The Lion - the Witch - and the Wardrobe
John Keats
CS Lewis
Christopher Marlowe
Beloved
7. 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
Elizabeth George Speare
Scott O'Dell
JD Salinger
David Copperfield
8. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Jean Craighead George
The Great Gatsby
Harper Lee
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
9. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
William Wordsworth
Alice In Wonderland
Louisa May Alcott
Zora Neale Hurston
10. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Aphra Behn
Sharon Creech
Animal Farm
Elizabeth George Speare
11. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
Leo Tolstoy
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Ernest Hemingway
Charles Dickens
12. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
Moby Dick
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Jack London
Louisa May Alcott
13. 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;
Robert Frost
George Orwell
The Giver
Mark Twain
14. Wrote Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton
TS Eliot
Langston Hughes
The Red Badge of Courage
15. 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
William Wordsworth
Geoffrey Chaucer
Mildred Taylor
Jack London
16. Wrote A Wrinkle in Time - A Swiftly Tilting Planet - A Wind in the Door - The Small Rain - 24 Days before Christmas
17. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Mary Shelley
Aurora Leigh
Henry David Thoreau
Alice In Wonderland
18. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
Washington Irving
Langston Hughes
James Joyce
CS Lewis
19. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
Elie Wiesel
Beloved
Ray Bradbury
Walt Whitman
20. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
Willa Cather
Little Women
Charlotte Bronte
William Golding
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
Robert Frost
William Butler Yeats
HG Wells
John Keats
22. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Robinson Crusoe
'Self - Reliance'
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Daniel Defoe
23. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Farenheit 451
Mary Downing Hahn
Virginia Woolf
Zora Neale Hurston
24. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
Daniel Defoe
Willa Cather
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Paul Zindel
25. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Willa Cather
Sylvia Plath
Langston Hughes
26. Wrote Hatchet
Zora Neale Hurston
Emily Bronte
Gary Paulson
Madeline L'Engle
27. Wrote Maniac Magee
The Great Gatsby
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Jerry Spinelli
Little Women
28. Wrote The Hobbit
Elizabeth George Speare
JRR Tolkein
Alice Walker
Paul Zindel
29. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Alice In Wonderland
Mark Twain
Johann David Wyss
Edgar Allan Poe
30. An impoverished young woman (Jane) struggles to maintain her autonomy in the face of oppression - prejudice - and love; Gothic novel - bildungsroman - social portest novel
Jane Eyre
Lewis Carroll
Helen Keller
HG Wells
31. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
SE Hinton
TS Eliot
Geoffrey Chaucer
Johann David Wyss
32. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
The Outsiders
The Catcher in the Rye
Little Women
'Self - Reliance'
33. 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
CS Lewis
The Catcher in the Rye
George Orwell
Holes
34. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
HG Wells
Daniel Defoe
Richard Adams
Not Without Laughter
35. 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
Robinson Crusoe
Animal Farm
Elie Wiesel
Watership Down
36. Wrote The Outsiders
Toni Morrison
S.E. Hinton
Aphra Behn
Their Eyes Were Watching God
37. Wrote Sonnet 18 - Hamlet - and Macbeth; greatest playwright who ever lived - prolific poet - known for sonnets
William Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
Sylvia Plath
Oscar Wilde
38. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Geoffrey Chaucer
David Copperfield
Jean Craighead George
Anne Frank
39. Wrote The Yearling
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edith Wharton
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Anne Frank
40. 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
Carl Hiaason
Christopher Paul Curtis
Macbeth
Beowulf
41. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe
Madeline L'Engle
Johann David Wyss
Beloved
The Red Badge of Courage
42. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
Anne Bradstreet
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Caroline Cooney
To Kill a Mockingbird
43. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
The Outsiders
Maya Angelou
JD Salinger
Oscar Wilde
44. 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
'In Reference to her Children'
HG Wells
Crime and Punishment
45. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Johann David Wyss
Edith Wharton
Lois Lowry
Nancy Farmer
46. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
SE Hinton
Christopher Paul Curtis
Aphra Behn
Beloved
47. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
Mary Shelley
Jerry Spinelli
George Orwell
Sonnet 18
48. 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 Call of the Wild
JD Salinger
Emily Bronte
Lord Byron
49. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
Langston Hughes
Macbeth
Frankenstein
Frederick Douglass
50. 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
JD Salinger
Lord of the Flies
Countee Cullen
Jane Austen