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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
Mary Downing Hahn
Elizabeth George Speare
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
The Giver
2. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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3. Wrote Sounder
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Jean Craighead George
William Armstrong
Herman Melville
4. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
The Joy Luck Club
HG Wells
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Willa Cather
5. Wrote Shiloh
Christopher Marlowe
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Mildred Taylor
Maya Angelou
6. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
Nathaniel Hawthorne
George Orwell
William Wordsworth
Frederick Douglass
7. Wrote Jane Eyre
Amy Tan
Robinson Crusoe
Charlotte Bronte
'Civil Disobedience'
8. Wrote The Glory Field
Richard Adams
Louis Sacher
Robert Cormier
Walter Dean Myers
9. 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
Walter Dean Myers
The Call of the Wild
Stephen Crane
10. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
Christopher Paul Curtis
Oscar Wilde
The Red Badge of Courage
Anne Bradstreet
11. 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
Walter Dean Myers
The Catcher in the Rye
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Crime and Punishment
12. Wrote Maniac Magee
Ruth Avi
Sandra Cisneros
Jerry Spinelli
Virgil
13. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
Sonnet 18
The Bell Jar
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Washington Irving
14. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
Leo Tolstoy
Geoffrey Chaucer
James Joyce
William Golding
15. 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
George Orwell
Watership Down
Percy Bysshe Shelley
William Shakespeare
16. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
Ben Mikaelson
1984
SE Hinton
Robert Frost
17. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
James Joyce
Oscar Wilde
The Bell Jar
Farenheit 451
18. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Emily Bronte
Edith Wharton
Washington Irving
Caroline Cooney
19. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Lois Lowry
Mary Downing Hahn
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Washington Irving
20. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist
Henry David Thoreau
Ray Bradbury
Sonnet 18
Avi
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
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Call of the Wild
The Pigman
Elie Wiesel
22. 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
1984
James Joyce
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Sharon Creech
23. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Walt Whitman
Herman Melville
Elizabeth George Speare
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
24. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
Aphra Behn
Alice In Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
The Picture of Dorian Gray
25. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
Herman Melville
Toni Morrison
Helen Keller
Willa Cather
26. 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
Caroline Cooney
Farenheit 451
Lewis Carroll
The Catcher in the Rye
27. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
The Pigman
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville
Jane Austen
28. 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 Great Gatsby
Caroline Cooney
Emily Dickinson
The Outsiders
29. Wrote The House on Mango Street
Robert Frost
Caroline Cooney
William Butler Yeats
Sandra Cisneros
30. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
Gary Paulson
Sylvia Plath
Walt Whitman
SE Hinton
31. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
William Golding
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Paul Zindel
Anna Karenina
32. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Ray Bradbury
William Shakespeare
Crime and Punishment
James Joyce
33. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Wendy Towle
William Shakespeare
Walt Whitman
Ernest Hemingway
34. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
David Copperfield
Leo Tolstoy
Sharon Creech
Not Without Laughter
35. Wrote The Pigman
Paul Zindel
Beloved
To Kill a Mockingbird
William Shakespeare
36. 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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37. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
S.E. Hinton
JD Salinger
Robinson Crusoe
Mary Downing Hahn
38. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
Mildred Taylor
Leo Tolstoy
CS Lewis
Charles Dickens
39. Wrote The Chocolate War
Ben Mikaelson
Robert Cormier
Percy Bysshe Shelley
James Joyce
40. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Macbeth
Mary Downing Hahn
Ruth Avi
Toni Morrison
41. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe
Karen Hesse
Amy Tan
Beloved
Elizabeth George Speare
42. 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
Richard Adams
1984
'In Reference to her Children'
Harper Lee
43. Wrote Charlotte's Web
Sylvia Plath
EB White
Harper Lee
Ben Mikaelson
44. Wrote The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Maya Angelou
Harper Lee
Zora Neale Hurston
45. A Trojan (Aeneas) destined to found Rome - undergoes many trials on land and sea during his journey to Italy - finally defeating the Latin Turnus and avenging the murder of Pallas.
The Aeneid
Mary Downing Hahn
Katherine Patterson
Beloved
46. 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
Nathaniel Hawthorne
David Copperfield
Louisa May Alcott
Langston Hughes
47. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
Lord of the Flies
Holes
Farenheit 451
Nancy Farmer
48. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
Wendy Towle
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Anne Bradstreet
William Butler Yeats
49. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Virgil
Anna Karenina
Jack London
Louis Sacher
50. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
Little Women
Caroline Cooney
To Kill a Mockingbird
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings