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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
TS Eliot
Amy Tan
Lord Byron
CS Lewis
2. Wrote Hoot
Carl Hiaason
Langston Hughes
Washington Irving
Little Women
3. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
The Joy Luck Club
Little Women
Johann David Wyss
Sonnet 18
4. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe
Jack London
Geoffrey Chaucer
Beloved
Alice In Wonderland
5. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Christopher Marlowe
Mary Shelley
Lois Lowry
Gary Paulson
6. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism
Harper Lee
Ester Forbes
William Wordsworth
Lord Byron
7. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
Jack London
Aurora Leigh
Langston Hughes
William Armstrong
8. Wrote Watership Down
The Outsiders
Zora Neale Hurston
Holes
Richard Adams
9. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
TS Eliot
Johann David Wyss
JD Salinger
Alice In Wonderland
10. 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
Paul Zindel
Gary Paulson
'Self - Reliance'
Virginia Woolf
11. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Virginia Woolf
Sandra Cisneros
Wendy Towle
Avi
12. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
Jean Craighead George
Mary Downing Hahn
Farenheit 451
Walt Whitman
13. 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
EB White
Farenheit 451
Katherine Patterson
Helen Keller
14. Wrote Jane Eyre
Mildred Taylor
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Katherine Patterson
Charlotte Bronte
15. 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
1984
William Armstrong
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ester Forbes
16. 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
Charles Dickens
The Joy Luck Club
Daniel Defoe
17. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
The Bell Jar
Zora Neale Hurston
Ray Bradbury
Johann David Wyss
18. Wrote Holes
Ernest Hemingway
Alice Walker
Ben Mikaelson
Louis Sacher
19. 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
Kate Dicamillo
Katherine Patterson
Robinson Crusoe
Stephen Crane
20. Wrote The Chocolate War
John Keats
Avi
Robert Cormier
The Aeneid
21. Wrote The Outsiders
The Aeneid
SE Hinton
Elizabeth George Speare
The Picture of Dorian Gray
22. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
Jean Craighead George
William Golding
Kate Dicamillo
Paul Zindel
23. 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
Robinson Crusoe
Stephen Crane
Sharon Creech
Kate Dicamillo
24. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Anna Karenina
The Great Gatsby
William Butler Yeats
25. 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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26. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
JD Salinger
Mary Shelley
Mary Downing Hahn
Holes
27. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
Alice Walker
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Louisa May Alcott
28. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
The Bell Jar
Robinson Crusoe
The Joy Luck Club
Harper Lee
29. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
The Great Gatsby
Walt Whitman
Patricia Maclachlan
Alice In Wonderland
30. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
HG Wells
Alice In Wonderland
Moby Dick
Avi
31. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
JD Salinger
The Great Gatsby
Animal Farm
Amy Tan
32. 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
Scott O'Dell
Moby Dick
Anna Karenina
John Keats
33. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
'Civil Disobedience'
Percy Bysshe Shelley
S.E. Hinton
Walt Whitman
34. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Joy Luck Club
Robert Frost
35. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
George Orwell
Robinson Crusoe
Jack London
Henry David Thoreau
36. Wrote The Hobbit
Christopher Marlowe
Walt Whitman
JRR Tolkein
The Great Gatsby
37. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty
JRR Tolkein
David Copperfield
JD Salinger
Lord of the Flies
38. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
David Copperfield
Anne Frank
Jane Eyre
Kate Dicamillo
39. 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
Ester Forbes
Harper Lee
EB White
John Keats
40. Wrote The Outsiders
Not Without Laughter
Lewis Carroll
S.E. Hinton
The Picture of Dorian Gray
41. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
Patricia Maclachlan
Leo Tolstoy
Not Without Laughter
Langston Hughes
42. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
Jane Austen
The Red Badge of Courage
Nancy Farmer
Sandra Cisneros
43. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
The Red Badge of Courage
SE Hinton
Oscar Wilde
Harper Lee
44. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edith Wharton
David Copperfield
Herman Melville
45. 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 Outsiders
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Countee Cullen
Zora Neale Hurston
46. Wrote The Pigman
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Catcher in the Rye
Anna Karenina
Paul Zindel
47. 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
Animal Farm
William Wordsworth
Langston Hughes
Countee Cullen
48. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
Sharon Creech
The Red Badge of Courage
Anna Karenina
Elizabeth George Speare
49. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Nancy Farmer
Jean Craighead George
Kate Chopin
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
50. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Mary Shelley
Moby Dick
Willa Cather
Lois Lowry
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