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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. 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
Robert Frost
George Orwell
Lord of the Flies
The Red Badge of Courage
2. set in modern times and focuses on the current circumstances of Stanley Yelnats - an unfortunate - unlucky young man who is sent to Camp Green Lake for a crime he didn't commit
Holes
The Joy Luck Club
Christopher Paul Curtis
Anne Frank
3. Wrote Watership Down
Robert Cormier
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ruth Avi
Richard Adams
4. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
The Aeneid
William Butler Yeats
Aurora Leigh
Leo Tolstoy
5. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
Lord Byron
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Pigman
The Picture of Dorian Gray
6. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Beloved
Robinson Crusoe
Gary Paulson
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
Ruth Avi
Christopher Marlowe
David Copperfield
The Joy Luck Club
8. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Amy Tan
Beowulf
Herman Melville
9. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
1984
Alice In Wonderland
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
'Civil Disobedience'
10. 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
Scott O'Dell
JRR Tolkein
Lord Byron
The Catcher in the Rye
11. 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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12. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
Caroline Cooney
Fyodor Dostoevsky
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Elizabeth George Speare
13. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
The Pigman
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Charles Dickens
Amy Tan
14. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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15. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Patricia Maclachlan
Alice Walker
Charles Dickens
Lois Lowry
16. 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
Macbeth
Anne Frank
Jane Eyre
Beowulf
17. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
Patricia Maclachlan
Gary Paulson
Leo Tolstoy
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
18. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Karen Hesse
Animal Farm
Avi
Wendy Towle
19. Wrote Jane Eyre
Herman Melville
Paul Zindel
Anne Bradstreet
Charlotte Bronte
20. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
EB White
William Golding
Anna Karenina
Nancy Farmer
21. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Jack London
Robert Frost
Amy Tan
Jean Craighead George
22. Wrote The Pigman
William Golding
'Civil Disobedience'
Robert Frost
Paul Zindel
23. 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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24. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
Stephen Crane
Edgar Allan Poe
JD Salinger
Patricia Maclachlan
25. 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
EB White
Louis Sacher
George Orwell
26. Wrote The Hobbit
To Kill a Mockingbird
JRR Tolkein
'Self - Reliance'
JD Salinger
27. 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
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anne Bradstreet
Virgil
William Wordsworth
28. Wrote Johnny Tremain
Christopher Paul Curtis
Ester Forbes
Madeline L'Engle
James Joyce
29. 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
Anne Bradstreet
Ruth Avi
Farenheit 451
The Aeneid
30. Wrote Out of the Dust
Gary Paulson
HG Wells
Ray Bradbury
Karen Hesse
31. Wrote Red Badge of Courage; American novelist - short story writer - poet - journalist - raised in NY and NJ; style and technique: naturalism - realism - impressionism; themes: ideals v. realities - spiritual crisis - fears
Ester Forbes
Lord Byron
Stephen Crane
Kate Chopin
32. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
Charlotte Bronte
Anne Bradstreet
George Orwell
The Outsiders
33. Wrote Ethan Frome
The Great Gatsby
Lord of the Flies
Robert Cormier
Edith Wharton
34. Wrote Shiloh
Lewis Carroll
Stephen Crane
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Beloved
35. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
TS Eliot
Christopher Marlowe
David Copperfield
Mary Shelley
36. 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
Frankenstein
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
To Kill a Mockingbird
Daniel Defoe
37. Wrote Charlotte's Web
EB White
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Call of the Wild
Geoffrey Chaucer
38. 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
Little Women
The Joy Luck Club
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Leo Tolstoy
39. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
William Butler Yeats
Anne Bradstreet
James Joyce
Mary Shelley
40. 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
Langston Hughes
Katherine Patterson
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Nathaniel Hawthorne
41. Wrote Maniac Magee
JD Salinger
Daniel Defoe
Jerry Spinelli
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
42. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
William Golding
JD Salinger
David Copperfield
Scott O'Dell
43. Wrote The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros
'Self - Reliance'
Lord Byron
JRR Tolkein
44. 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
Countee Cullen
Langston Hughes
The Giver
Avi
45. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
S.E. Hinton
William Butler Yeats
Charles Dickens
George Orwell
46. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Outsiders
Ray Bradbury
Edith Wharton
47. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Walter Dean Myers
Aphra Behn
1984
Paul Zindel
48. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
'In Reference to her Children'
Sylvia Plath
Zora Neale Hurston
The Red Badge of Courage
49. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
The Great Gatsby
Daniel Defoe
Their Eyes Were Watching God
'Self - Reliance'
50. Wrote The Awakening - The Storm; feminist author of the 20th century; born in St. Louis - Missouri
Patricia Maclachlan
Christopher Marlowe
Aurora Leigh
Kate Chopin