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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
Jean Craighead George
Anna Karenina
Macbeth
HG Wells
2. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
The Red Badge of Courage
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Crime and Punishment
Jane Eyre
3. 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
Not Without Laughter
The Aeneid
Paul Zindel
Macbeth
4. 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
Watership Down
William Wordsworth
William Butler Yeats
5. 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
David Copperfield
Sonnet 18
John Keats
Langston Hughes
6. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
Countee Cullen
The Pigman
Anne Bradstreet
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
7. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Moby Dick
Louisa May Alcott
Wendy Towle
Robert Cormier
8. 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'
Charles Dickens
Ester Forbes
Ernest Hemingway
Kate Dicamillo
9. A man is shipwrecked on an island - where he lives for more than 20 years - fending off cannibals and creating a pleasant life for himself
Not Without Laughter
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Anne Frank
Robinson Crusoe
10. 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
Leo Tolstoy
Beowulf
Walt Whitman
JD Salinger
11. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Edgar Allan Poe
Lois Lowry
Oscar Wilde
Gary Paulson
12. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Giver
Elizabeth George Speare
Holes
13. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Maya Angelou
Patricia Maclachlan
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Madeline L'Engle
14. 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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15. Wrote Charlotte's Web
EB White
Little Women
Henry David Thoreau
Jane Austen
16. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe
Beloved
To Kill a Mockingbird
Animal Farm
Geoffrey Chaucer
17. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Mark Twain
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Catcher in the Rye
Kate Chopin
18. Wrote Maniac Magee
Emily Bronte
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jerry Spinelli
'Self - Reliance'
19. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
David Copperfield
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Mary Shelley
Ernest Hemingway
20. Wrote Holes
Countee Cullen
The Outsiders
Louis Sacher
Christopher Paul Curtis
21. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Ray Bradbury
John Keats
Toni Morrison
Walter Dean Myers
22. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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23. Wrote The Glory Field
Watership Down
Ernest Hemingway
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walter Dean Myers
24. Wrote Shiloh
TS Eliot
Countee Cullen
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Geoffrey Chaucer
25. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
Kate Chopin
Katherine Patterson
Leo Tolstoy
Charles Dickens
26. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Mary Downing Hahn
George Orwell
Ernest Hemingway
Elie Wiesel
27. Wrote The Hobbit
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
JRR Tolkein
CS Lewis
The Bell Jar
28. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Herman Melville
Virginia Woolf
Ruth Avi
The Picture of Dorian Gray
29. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
Washington Irving
George Orwell
Louisa May Alcott
Moby Dick
30. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism
Jack London
Lord Byron
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Bell Jar
31. 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
William Wordsworth
Edgar Allan Poe
Caroline Cooney
Louis Sacher
32. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Frankenstein
Watership Down
Lois Lowry
33. 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
Holes
Karen Hesse
Frankenstein
HG Wells
34. 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
The Catcher in the Rye
The Great Gatsby
Sylvia Plath
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
35. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
JD Salinger
The Giver
Sylvia Plath
Macbeth
36. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
Washington Irving
Zora Neale Hurston
Elizabeth George Speare
Leo Tolstoy
37. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
1984
Leo Tolstoy
Lord of the Flies
Moby Dick
38. 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
The Call of the Wild
John Keats
Christopher Marlowe
Ralph Waldo Emerson
39. 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
Moby Dick
SE Hinton
Farenheit 451
Little Women
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
William Golding
Aurora Leigh
John Keats
Kate Dicamillo
41. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
Washington Irving
Mary Downing Hahn
Mildred Taylor
Mark Twain
42. 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
Edgar Allan Poe
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Nancy Farmer
Stephen Crane
43. 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
Farenheit 451
Kate Dicamillo
The Pigman
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
44. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Aphra Behn
Alice Walker
Frankenstein
Emily Dickinson
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
Ester Forbes
Farenheit 451
Crime and Punishment
Aphra Behn
46. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Daniel Defoe
Jane Austen
Charlotte Bronte
Louis Sacher
47. '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
To Kill a Mockingbird
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Sonnet 18
Karen Hesse
48. Wrote The Chocolate War
Caroline Cooney
EB White
Robert Cormier
William Butler Yeats
49. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Ralph Waldo Emerson
EB White
Holes
50. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
'Civil Disobedience'
Jean Craighead George
Herman Melville
Mildred Taylor