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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. 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
David Copperfield
William Wordsworth
Frankenstein
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
2. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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3. 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
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Louis Sacher
Countee Cullen
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
4. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
Jane Eyre
To Kill a Mockingbird
CS Lewis
Jack London
5. 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
Robinson Crusoe
Avi
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Virginia Woolf
6. 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
Anna Karenina
Aurora Leigh
Patricia Maclachlan
7. Wrote Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Mansfield Park - et al.
Stephen Crane
Jane Austen
Paul Zindel
Caroline Cooney
8. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
Kate Dicamillo
William Wordsworth
Lewis Carroll
Robert Frost
9. 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
Helen Keller
Amy Tan
David Copperfield
Moby Dick
10. Wrote The Lion - the Witch - and the Wardrobe
Ben Mikaelson
The Bell Jar
CS Lewis
Christopher Paul Curtis
11. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
Daniel Defoe
William Golding
Elizabeth George Speare
The Red Badge of Courage
12. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
The Red Badge of Courage
Ruth Avi
Patricia Maclachlan
Caroline Cooney
13. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Caroline Cooney
Katherine Patterson
Virginia Woolf
Nancy Farmer
14. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
William Golding
F. Scott Fitzgerald
James Joyce
Aphra Behn
15. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Charles Dickens
Scott O'Dell
Zora Neale Hurston
Maya Angelou
16. Wrote The Yearling
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Leo Tolstoy
Robert Frost
David Copperfield
17. Wrote Holes
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Louis Sacher
Fyodor Dostoevsky
'Self - Reliance'
18. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
HG Wells
Charles Dickens
Patricia Maclachlan
David Copperfield
19. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
The Red Badge of Courage
Frankenstein
William Shakespeare
Holes
20. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Louis Sacher
Herman Melville
Farenheit 451
John Keats
21. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
To Kill a Mockingbird
Helen Keller
Sylvia Plath
Mary Shelley
22. 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
Sandra Cisneros
Crime and Punishment
Jane Austen
Aphra Behn
23. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
Christopher Paul Curtis
Little Women
Richard Adams
The Giver
24. Wrote Night
Elie Wiesel
Frederick Douglass
Beloved
Sandra Cisneros
25. Wrote Watership Down
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Sharon Creech
Aurora Leigh
Richard Adams
26. 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
Zora Neale Hurston
Farenheit 451
The Pigman
Mildred Taylor
27. 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'
Christopher Paul Curtis
Patricia Maclachlan
Ernest Hemingway
Ester Forbes
28. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Ester Forbes
Anne Frank
William Shakespeare
Animal Farm
29. Inspired by witch's prophecy - a man murders his way to the throne of Scotland - but his conscience plagues him and his fellow lords rise up against him; themes: unchecked ambition as a corrupting force - relationship between cruelty and masculinity
Macbeth
Maya Angelou
'Self - Reliance'
Robinson Crusoe
30. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
Helen Keller
EB White
Geoffrey Chaucer
TS Eliot
31. Wrote The Chocolate War
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Robert Cormier
Washington Irving
Wendy Towle
32. 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
Mary Shelley
John Keats
Animal Farm
Helen Keller
33. 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
Elizabeth George Speare
Virginia Woolf
William Wordsworth
Jack London
34. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
Virgil
Lord of the Flies
Watership Down
The Bell Jar
35. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
HG Wells
Christopher Marlowe
Frederick Douglass
Caroline Cooney
36. 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
Lois Lowry
Christopher Paul Curtis
David Copperfield
Katherine Patterson
37. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
Helen Keller
Patricia Maclachlan
Daniel Defoe
Wendy Towle
38. 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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39. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
Ruth Avi
'In Reference to her Children'
S.E. Hinton
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
40. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
Alice In Wonderland
Frederick Douglass
Christopher Marlowe
Jerry Spinelli
41. Wrote Ethan Frome
The Bell Jar
Edith Wharton
The Aeneid
1984
42. 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
Sandra Cisneros
Zora Neale Hurston
The Giver
The Catcher in the Rye
43. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Katherine Patterson
Anna Karenina
Richard Adams
Anne Frank
44. 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
William Armstrong
The Joy Luck Club
Ester Forbes
Toni Morrison
45. Wrote Roll of Thunder
Anne Bradstreet
Mildred Taylor
Stephen Crane
Daniel Defoe
46. Wrote The Outsiders
'Self - Reliance'
Beloved
Harper Lee
SE Hinton
47. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Wendy Towle
Robinson Crusoe
Sharon Creech
Washington Irving
48. 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
Karen Hesse
Macbeth
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Mark Twain
49. 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.
Virginia Woolf
Ray Bradbury
The Aeneid
Ruth Avi
50. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
Geoffrey Chaucer
'In Reference to her Children'
Charlotte Bronte
The Picture of Dorian Gray