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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Inspired by witch's prophecy - a man murders his way to the throne of Scotland - but his conscience plagues him and his fellow lords rise up against him; themes: unchecked ambition as a corrupting force - relationship between cruelty and masculinity
Mark Twain
Macbeth
Jack London
To Kill a Mockingbird
2. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
Frederick Douglass
Walter Dean Myers
Helen Keller
Anne Bradstreet
3. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
Sonnet 18
Alice Walker
Walt Whitman
Frankenstein
4. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
Emily Dickinson
Aphra Behn
The Giver
James Joyce
5. Wrote Watership Down
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Kate Chopin
Richard Adams
Washington Irving
6. Wrote Wuthering Heights
Robert Frost
Emily Bronte
Not Without Laughter
Wendy Towle
7. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Leo Tolstoy
Frederick Douglass
Willa Cather
8. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Patricia Maclachlan
Robert Cormier
Anne Frank
Paul Zindel
9. 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
The Bell Jar
Richard Adams
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Robinson Crusoe
10. '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
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lord Byron
'Civil Disobedience'
Sonnet 18
11. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Aurora Leigh
The Picture of Dorian Gray
CS Lewis
12. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
Patricia Maclachlan
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
JRR Tolkein
Ray Bradbury
13. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Maya Angelou
'Self - Reliance'
HG Wells
Emily Dickinson
14. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
Wendy Towle
The Bell Jar
Ralph Waldo Emerson
15. 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
The Joy Luck Club
Washington Irving
To Kill a Mockingbird
Animal Farm
16. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Johann David Wyss
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Robert Frost
Macbeth
17. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
Charles Dickens
Charlotte Bronte
Edgar Allan Poe
Katherine Patterson
18. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
The Outsiders
Ruth Avi
Lewis Carroll
CS Lewis
19. 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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20. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
Macbeth
Charles Dickens
Sylvia Plath
Sonnet 18
21. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Anne Bradstreet
William Armstrong
Johann David Wyss
Richard Adams
22. 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
JD Salinger
To Kill a Mockingbird
Katherine Patterson
The Catcher in the Rye
23. Wrote The Hobbit
Toni Morrison
JRR Tolkein
Mildred Taylor
Stephen Crane
24. Wrote The Great Gatsby
Countee Cullen
Little Women
F. Scott Fitzgerald
JD Salinger
25. 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
Sylvia Plath
'In Reference to her Children'
HG Wells
The Joy Luck Club
26. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
Mildred Taylor
Macbeth
CS Lewis
Countee Cullen
27. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
Animal Farm
Edith Wharton
The Bell Jar
William Butler Yeats
28. 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'
Crime and Punishment
William Wordsworth
Ernest Hemingway
Elie Wiesel
29. 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
Robert Cormier
Harper Lee
1984
Watership Down
30. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
Charlotte Bronte
Louisa May Alcott
Percy Bysshe Shelley
'In Reference to her Children'
31. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Macbeth
Oscar Wilde
Beloved
32. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Daniel Defoe
Geoffrey Chaucer
Macbeth
Percy Bysshe Shelley
33. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Amy Tan
Karen Hesse
Jean Craighead George
The Joy Luck Club
34. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Maya Angelou
Farenheit 451
35. 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
Kate Chopin
Not Without Laughter
The Outsiders
Willa Cather
36. 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
David Copperfield
William Golding
Alice Walker
Edgar Allan Poe
37. Wrote Hoot
Walter Dean Myers
Emily Dickinson
Macbeth
Carl Hiaason
38. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist
Frederick Douglass
Aurora Leigh
Jean Craighead George
Henry David Thoreau
39. Wrote Jane Eyre
Not Without Laughter
Patricia Maclachlan
Sonnet 18
Charlotte Bronte
40. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Christopher Paul Curtis
Kate Chopin
Aphra Behn
Charlotte Bronte
41. Wrote The Aeneid
Sylvia Plath
Virgil
Sandra Cisneros
Moby Dick
42. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
William Golding
Helen Keller
Herman Melville
Leo Tolstoy
43. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Sharon Creech
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Shakespeare
44. Wrote The Yearling
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Ester Forbes
Charlotte Bronte
S.E. Hinton
45. 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
HG Wells
Katherine Patterson
Kate Dicamillo
46. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
Richard Adams
Anne Bradstreet
Aphra Behn
Johann David Wyss
47. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
EB White
Willa Cather
Wendy Towle
Farenheit 451
48. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
Watership Down
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Katherine Patterson
Alice In Wonderland
49. Wrote Roll of Thunder
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Bell Jar
Mildred Taylor
James Joyce
50. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
HG Wells
The Great Gatsby
Mildred Taylor
Nancy Farmer
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