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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
Willa Cather
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
William Shakespeare
Ray Bradbury
2. 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
Willa Cather
Robert Frost
1984
The Call of the Wild
3. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
Aurora Leigh
1984
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Leo Tolstoy
4. 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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5. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
William Shakespeare
Frederick Douglass
Caroline Cooney
Moby Dick
6. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker
Leo Tolstoy
Jane Eyre
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sylvia Plath
7. 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
Emily Dickinson
SE Hinton
Sandra Cisneros
Alice In Wonderland
8. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
Patricia Maclachlan
Scott O'Dell
The Aeneid
Kate Dicamillo
9. 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
Moby Dick
William Wordsworth
Nathaniel Hawthorne
JRR Tolkein
10. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
TS Eliot
The Aeneid
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Lois Lowry
11. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Maya Angelou
Crime and Punishment
Toni Morrison
Jane Austen
12. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Frankenstein
Mary Downing Hahn
Edith Wharton
'In Reference to her Children'
13. Wrote Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Mansfield Park - et al.
Jane Austen
The Outsiders
Aphra Behn
S.E. Hinton
14. 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
Jane Austen
Anne Bradstreet
Sylvia Plath
Animal Farm
15. 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
Ester Forbes
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Watership Down
William Shakespeare
16. Wrote Wuthering Heights
Geoffrey Chaucer
Holes
Emily Bronte
Their Eyes Were Watching God
17. Wrote Shiloh
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Louis Sacher
Charles Dickens
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
18. Wrote Maniac Magee
Frederick Douglass
Jerry Spinelli
The Joy Luck Club
Frankenstein
19. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
Aurora Leigh
William Armstrong
Anna Karenina
The Bell Jar
20. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Kate Dicamillo
Lois Lowry
Alice Walker
Mildred Taylor
21. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Charles Dickens
Alice Walker
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Maya Angelou
22. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Katherine Patterson
Alice Walker
Charles Dickens
Sharon Creech
23. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Anna Karenina
Jane Austen
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
24. 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'
The Joy Luck Club
Wendy Towle
Ernest Hemingway
David Copperfield
25. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
JRR Tolkein
Alice Walker
Katherine Patterson
William Golding
26. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
Charles Dickens
Washington Irving
Lewis Carroll
Alice Walker
27. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Christopher Paul Curtis
Avi
Jerry Spinelli
1984
28. 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
Richard Adams
James Joyce
Frankenstein
Sylvia Plath
29. Wrote The Pigman
1984
Jane Eyre
Paul Zindel
The Pigman
30. Wrote Out of the Dust
Karen Hesse
Oscar Wilde
Ray Bradbury
William Shakespeare
31. 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
Geoffrey Chaucer
Virgil
Ray Bradbury
Virginia Woolf
32. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
Mark Twain
Lewis Carroll
Frankenstein
Zora Neale Hurston
33. Wrote 'The Road Not Taken;' American poet; highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech; won Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry four times
William Armstrong
Virgil
EB White
Robert Frost
34. '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
Jack London
Robinson Crusoe
Sonnet 18
SE Hinton
35. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist
Helen Keller
Richard Adams
Henry David Thoreau
Amy Tan
36. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
1984
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sandra Cisneros
Ruth Avi
37. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
Virgil
Ray Bradbury
Jane Austen
Katherine Patterson
38. Wrote The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Christopher Marlowe
Mildred Taylor
The Outsiders
39. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
Helen Keller
Wendy Towle
William Butler Yeats
JD Salinger
40. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty
Holes
Lord of the Flies
The Pigman
Lewis Carroll
41. 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
Jean Craighead George
James Joyce
William Butler Yeats
Edgar Allan Poe
42. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
Toni Morrison
Countee Cullen
The Great Gatsby
Mary Shelley
43. Wrote The Weary Blues - The Ways of White Folks - and Not Without Laughter; American poet - novelist - playwright - short story writer - and columnist; early innovator for literary art known as jazz poetry; best known for work during Harlem Renaissan
The Outsiders
Alice Walker
Animal Farm
Langston Hughes
44. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Walter Dean Myers
Jean Craighead George
Zora Neale Hurston
Anne Frank
45. Wrote The Lion - the Witch - and the Wardrobe
Willa Cather
Sonnet 18
Zora Neale Hurston
CS Lewis
46. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Call of the Wild
Mark Twain
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Ruth Avi
47. 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
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Not Without Laughter
Little Women
Emily Bronte
48. 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
Toni Morrison
Edith Wharton
Johann David Wyss
49. Wrote Ethan Frome
The Red Badge of Courage
Edith Wharton
Aphra Behn
Mary Downing Hahn
50. 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
To Kill a Mockingbird
Henry David Thoreau
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Catcher in the Rye
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