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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote The Yearling
Edith Wharton
The Catcher in the Rye
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
SE Hinton
2. Wrote The Great Gatsby
The Pigman
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ralph Waldo Emerson
David Copperfield
3. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
Fyodor Dostoevsky
William Wordsworth
George Orwell
Jerry Spinelli
4. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
Nancy Farmer
Jane Austen
Crime and Punishment
Sharon Creech
5. 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
William Shakespeare
William Armstrong
The Red Badge of Courage
6. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Jean Craighead George
Moby Dick
Madeline L'Engle
Frederick Douglass
7. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism
Nancy Farmer
Watership Down
Johann David Wyss
Lord Byron
8. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
CS Lewis
Madeline L'Engle
Daniel Defoe
Sylvia Plath
9. 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
Kate Chopin
Robinson Crusoe
Jerry Spinelli
10. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
William Shakespeare
Langston Hughes
Elizabeth George Speare
William Golding
11. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Paul Zindel
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Anne Bradstreet
Karen Hesse
12. '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
Sonnet 18
Richard Adams
Walt Whitman
EB White
13. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty
Mark Twain
Moby Dick
Lord of the Flies
William Butler Yeats
14. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Helen Keller
Daniel Defoe
James Joyce
Ray Bradbury
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
William Wordsworth
Animal Farm
JRR Tolkein
Macbeth
16. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
Not Without Laughter
Gary Paulson
Anne Bradstreet
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
17. 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
Sylvia Plath
Beowulf
Langston Hughes
Jerry Spinelli
18. 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
Caroline Cooney
William Wordsworth
To Kill a Mockingbird
Robert Frost
19. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Alice Walker
Little Women
Lord Byron
Louis Sacher
20. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
Farenheit 451
Anne Frank
Charles Dickens
Elizabeth George Speare
21. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
'Civil Disobedience'
Charles Dickens
Mildred Taylor
Helen Keller
22. 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
Jane Eyre
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kate Chopin
23. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Mildred Taylor
Watership Down
Wendy Towle
Toni Morrison
24. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
Daniel Defoe
Walt Whitman
The Joy Luck Club
Robert Frost
25. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
Lord of the Flies
Jack London
Lewis Carroll
F. Scott Fitzgerald
26. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
Ben Mikaelson
Henry David Thoreau
Edgar Allan Poe
TS Eliot
27. 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
Mary Downing Hahn
Frankenstein
William Butler Yeats
Not Without Laughter
28. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
Helen Keller
The Joy Luck Club
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Percy Bysshe Shelley
29. 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
Moby Dick
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sylvia Plath
Farenheit 451
30. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Johann David Wyss
The Aeneid
Lois Lowry
Jane Eyre
31. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Daniel Defoe
Louis Sacher
Harper Lee
The Aeneid
32. 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
Charles Dickens
The Pigman
Lord Byron
Louisa May Alcott
33. Wrote Maniac Magee
Katherine Patterson
Willa Cather
Jerry Spinelli
'Self - Reliance'
34. Wrote Charlotte's Web
Jack London
EB White
Anna Karenina
Farenheit 451
35. 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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36. 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
The Red Badge of Courage
Moby Dick
The Call of the Wild
1984
37. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
Holes
To Kill a Mockingbird
Oscar Wilde
Helen Keller
38. Wrote The Outsiders
Sandra Cisneros
Wendy Towle
Animal Farm
SE Hinton
39. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Louis Sacher
1984
Christopher Paul Curtis
Beloved
40. Wrote 'On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer -' 'To Autumn -' and 'Bright Star - Would I Were Stedfast As Thou Art;' English poet in Romantic movement during early 19th century; motifs include departures and reveries - the five sense and art - and th
John Keats
Zora Neale Hurston
S.E. Hinton
Sandra Cisneros
41. 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
The Red Badge of Courage
Watership Down
William Shakespeare
Percy Bysshe Shelley
42. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Robert Cormier
Anne Frank
The Bell Jar
JRR Tolkein
43. 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
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Washington Irving
Lois Lowry
Mary Downing Hahn
44. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
Toni Morrison
The Catcher in the Rye
Zora Neale Hurston
Mildred Taylor
45. Wrote The Outsiders
Christopher Marlowe
S.E. Hinton
George Orwell
Sharon Creech
46. 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
Caroline Cooney
Crime and Punishment
The Joy Luck Club
William Golding
47. Wrote Wuthering Heights
Helen Keller
Emily Bronte
Caroline Cooney
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
48. Wrote Holes
S.E. Hinton
Ben Mikaelson
Sylvia Plath
Louis Sacher
49. Wrote The Chocolate War
Richard Adams
Robert Cormier
Beowulf
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
50. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Anne Frank
The Aeneid
Virginia Woolf