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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. 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
Louis Sacher
Robinson Crusoe
Sharon Creech
Harper Lee
2. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
The Bell Jar
Mark Twain
William Butler Yeats
Ray Bradbury
3. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Elizabeth George Speare
Caroline Cooney
Sharon Creech
F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. Wrote The Lion - the Witch - and the Wardrobe
Virgil
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Holes
CS Lewis
5. Wrote The House on Mango Street
'In Reference to her Children'
Macbeth
Amy Tan
Sandra Cisneros
6. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker
Scott O'Dell
Henry David Thoreau
Holes
Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. 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
Sonnet 18
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Countee Cullen
Katherine Patterson
8. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville
The Great Gatsby
Walter Dean Myers
9. Wrote Sounder
William Armstrong
The Outsiders
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Walt Whitman
10. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
The Outsiders
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Bell Jar
Geoffrey Chaucer
11. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism
Anne Frank
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Lord Byron
Ester Forbes
12. Wrote Doctor Faustus
William Butler Yeats
Willa Cather
Mary Shelley
Christopher Marlowe
13. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
Holes
Mark Twain
Mary Shelley
Willa Cather
14. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty
William Butler Yeats
Charles Dickens
Paul Zindel
Lord of the Flies
15. 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
'In Reference to her Children'
The Bell Jar
Emily Dickinson
The Pigman
16. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
James Joyce
JD Salinger
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Herman Melville
17. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
The Giver
Louis Sacher
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Aurora Leigh
18. Wrote Walk Two Moons
To Kill a Mockingbird
Edith Wharton
Countee Cullen
Sharon Creech
19. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
1984
Louisa May Alcott
Countee Cullen
To Kill a Mockingbird
20. 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
Sharon Creech
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Catcher in the Rye
Alice Walker
21. 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
Wendy Towle
Alice Walker
The Joy Luck Club
'In Reference to her Children'
22. 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
Anne Frank
To Kill a Mockingbird
Caroline Cooney
1984
23. An impoverished young woman (Jane) struggles to maintain her autonomy in the face of oppression - prejudice - and love; Gothic novel - bildungsroman - social portest novel
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Jane Eyre
Gary Paulson
Anne Frank
24. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
Alice In Wonderland
The Call of the Wild
Anne Bradstreet
Mildred Taylor
25. Wrote The Aeneid
TS Eliot
The Aeneid
The Outsiders
Virgil
26. 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
Watership Down
Patricia Maclachlan
Jack London
Emily Dickinson
27. Wrote The Outsiders
SE Hinton
S.E. Hinton
Alice Walker
Scott O'Dell
28. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
EB White
Maya Angelou
Toni Morrison
Christopher Marlowe
29. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
Daniel Defoe
The Red Badge of Courage
Anne Bradstreet
Scott O'Dell
30. 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
Beowulf
Richard Adams
Ruth Avi
William Armstrong
31. 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
Little Women
Anne Frank
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Amy Tan
32. Wrote The Yearling
Moby Dick
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Charles Dickens
Countee Cullen
33. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
The Catcher in the Rye
William Armstrong
William Wordsworth
Toni Morrison
34. Wrote Wuthering Heights
Nancy Farmer
Emily Bronte
Gary Paulson
James Joyce
35. Wrote The Outsiders
Lois Lowry
Little Women
HG Wells
SE Hinton
36. Wrote The Chocolate War
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Helen Keller
Robert Cormier
Crime and Punishment
37. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Mildred Taylor
Alice Walker
Mary Shelley
The Aeneid
38. 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
Jane Austen
Farenheit 451
Lord Byron
39. 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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40. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
Daniel Defoe
Oscar Wilde
Ben Mikaelson
The Picture of Dorian Gray
41. 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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42. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
Virginia Woolf
Emily Dickinson
Zora Neale Hurston
Frankenstein
43. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
JD Salinger
Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frederick Douglass
44. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Jean Craighead George
Aphra Behn
Elie Wiesel
Edith Wharton
45. Wrote Ethan Frome
William Shakespeare
Zora Neale Hurston
The Outsiders
Edith Wharton
46. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment
Elie Wiesel
The Great Gatsby
47. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Aphra Behn
Walt Whitman
Maya Angelou
Not Without Laughter
48. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Aphra Behn
The Pigman
William Shakespeare
49. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Moby Dick
Oscar Wilde
Edith Wharton
William Wordsworth
50. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
William Golding
Jack London
Anne Frank
Harper Lee