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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. 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
1984
The Call of the Wild
Leo Tolstoy
Percy Bysshe Shelley
2. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
Countee Cullen
JD Salinger
Willa Cather
William Armstrong
3. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Anne Frank
Mark Twain
Anne Bradstreet
The Great Gatsby
4. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
Mary Downing Hahn
Patricia Maclachlan
Jane Eyre
The Giver
5. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beowulf
Charles Dickens
The Joy Luck Club
6. Wrote Little Women; American novelist
1984
Louisa May Alcott
Little Women
Amy Tan
7. 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
David Copperfield
EB White
Virgil
8. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
Emily Dickinson
The Red Badge of Courage
TS Eliot
Louisa May Alcott
9. 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
10. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
Willa Cather
Robert Cormier
James Joyce
Holes
11. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
Mary Shelley
Harper Lee
Helen Keller
Ray Bradbury
12. Wrote The Fall of the House of Usher - The Murders in the Rue Morgue - and The Raven; wrote poems: 'To Science -' 'The City and the Sea -' and 'Silence;' American writer - poet - editor and literary critic; part of American Romantic Movement
Edgar Allan Poe
Sonnet 18
Beloved
Frankenstein
13. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist
Edgar Allan Poe
TS Eliot
Ben Mikaelson
Henry David Thoreau
14. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
15. 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
Stephen Crane
Willa Cather
Aurora Leigh
William Shakespeare
16. 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.
Louis Sacher
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Aeneid
'Self - Reliance'
17. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
JRR Tolkein
Robert Frost
Lewis Carroll
Moby Dick
18. set in modern times and focuses on the current circumstances of Stanley Yelnats - an unfortunate - unlucky young man who is sent to Camp Green Lake for a crime he didn't commit
To Kill a Mockingbird
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Jack London
Holes
19. Wrote The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros
Fyodor Dostoevsky
William Golding
Ruth Avi
20. Wrote Johnny Tremain
Geoffrey Chaucer
Ester Forbes
'In Reference to her Children'
George Orwell
21. Wrote The Hobbit
To Kill a Mockingbird
Christopher Marlowe
JRR Tolkein
Johann David Wyss
22. Wrote The Aeneid
Gary Paulson
Virgil
Sylvia Plath
Percy Bysshe Shelley
23. 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
Holes
1984
The Bell Jar
EB White
24. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
JD Salinger
Kate Chopin
The Great Gatsby
Jean Craighead George
25. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
George Orwell
The Call of the Wild
Anna Karenina
Christopher Paul Curtis
26. Wrote 'The Road Not Taken;' American poet; highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech; won Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry four times
Patricia Maclachlan
Beloved
Stephen Crane
Robert Frost
27. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
Ernest Hemingway
Zora Neale Hurston
Edgar Allan Poe
Crime and Punishment
28. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Ray Bradbury
Jean Craighead George
Elie Wiesel
Katherine Patterson
29. Wrote Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
Sandra Cisneros
S.E. Hinton
Helen Keller
30. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Harper Lee
Aphra Behn
Mary Shelley
F. Scott Fitzgerald
31. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
Lois Lowry
Edith Wharton
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Frankenstein
32. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Amy Tan
Herman Melville
Lord Byron
Edgar Allan Poe
33. 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
Gary Paulson
John Keats
Jerry Spinelli
Virginia Woolf
34. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
Alice Walker
Charles Dickens
Alice In Wonderland
'Self - Reliance'
35. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
S.E. Hinton
Aurora Leigh
Langston Hughes
Nathaniel Hawthorne
36. Wrote The Great Gatsby
Edgar Allan Poe
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Anna Karenina
Mary Shelley
37. 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
Christopher Marlowe
Their Eyes Were Watching God
William Golding
David Copperfield
38. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
Lord Byron
The Catcher in the Rye
Ray Bradbury
Sylvia Plath
39. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
William Butler Yeats
HG Wells
Ruth Avi
Robert Cormier
40. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird; American author
William Wordsworth
Aurora Leigh
Harper Lee
Holes
41. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
To Kill a Mockingbird
Maya Angelou
Mildred Taylor
Lord Byron
42. Wrote Wuthering Heights
Robert Frost
Emily Bronte
CS Lewis
Toni Morrison
43. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
The Outsiders
Anne Frank
Louis Sacher
Jack London
44. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
Elizabeth George Speare
Oscar Wilde
Daniel Defoe
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
45. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
Lord of the Flies
The Bell Jar
Robinson Crusoe
Scott O'Dell
46. 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
Alice In Wonderland
Lois Lowry
William Wordsworth
47. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker
Walt Whitman
SE Hinton
Nancy Farmer
Ralph Waldo Emerson
48. '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
The Great Gatsby
Ruth Avi
Charlotte Bronte
49. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Johann David Wyss
Holes
The Outsiders
1984
50. Wrote Hoot
William Golding
Carl Hiaason
Lois Lowry
Anne Frank