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Praxis II Major Authors And Works

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1. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle






2. 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'






3. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars






4. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'






5. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist






6. 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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7. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall






8. 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






9. 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






10. 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






11. Wrote The Aeneid






12. Wrote The House on Mango Street






13. 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






14. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham






15. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism






16. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine






17. 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






18. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism






19. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War






20. Wrote Night






21. 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






22. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves






23. Wrote Sounder






24. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer






25. Wrote Julie of the Wolves






26. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet






27. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression






28. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm






29. Wrote The Canterbury Tales






30. 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






31. 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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32. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry






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






34. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality






35. 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






36. 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






37. Wrote Watership Down






38. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine






39. Wrote Little Women; American novelist






40. Wrote The Yearling






41. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel






42. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie






43. Wrote The Chocolate War






44. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy






45. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth






46. Wrote Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Mansfield Park - et al.






47. Wrote The Outsiders






48. 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






49. 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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50. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author