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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe
Lois Lowry
Beloved
Avi
Anne Bradstreet
2. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
Mark Twain
CS Lewis
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Geoffrey Chaucer
3. 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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4. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
Mildred Taylor
Walt Whitman
The Great Gatsby
Jack London
5. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
Little Women
Mary Downing Hahn
William Armstrong
The Great Gatsby
6. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Maya Angelou
Holes
Ruth Avi
To Kill a Mockingbird
7. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
Scott O'Dell
William Butler Yeats
William Golding
Sylvia Plath
8. 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
Jane Austen
David Copperfield
Lois Lowry
Alice Walker
9. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
Ester Forbes
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Macbeth
Ben Mikaelson
10. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
Aphra Behn
Zora Neale Hurston
Katherine Patterson
The Bell Jar
11. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
Willa Cather
Countee Cullen
Patricia Maclachlan
Sonnet 18
12. 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
Farenheit 451
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Picture of Dorian Gray
HG Wells
13. It is set in a future society which is at first presented as a utopian society and gradually appears more and more dystopian; therefore - it could be considered anti - utopian; the novel follows a boy named Jonas through the twelfth year of his life;
Richard Adams
Frederick Douglass
Maya Angelou
The Giver
14. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
The Giver
Geoffrey Chaucer
Mary Shelley
SE Hinton
15. 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
Madeline L'Engle
SE Hinton
Holes
Wendy Towle
16. 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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17. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
The Catcher in the Rye
HG Wells
Robert Frost
18. Wrote Maniac Magee
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Charlotte Bronte
Ester Forbes
Jerry Spinelli
19. Wrote The Great Gatsby
Amy Tan
Ray Bradbury
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jack London
20. Wrote Hoot
Aurora Leigh
Ruth Avi
Carl Hiaason
Patricia Maclachlan
21. 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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22. 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
Jerry Spinelli
Robinson Crusoe
Lewis Carroll
1984
23. Wrote Hatchet
Louisa May Alcott
Holes
Gary Paulson
Crime and Punishment
24. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Emily Bronte
Virginia Woolf
Amy Tan
Fyodor Dostoevsky
25. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
Mark Twain
George Orwell
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Mary Shelley
26. Wrote Night
Daniel Defoe
Elie Wiesel
Edgar Allan Poe
Jack London
27. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
Anne Frank
Helen Keller
Lord of the Flies
Alice Walker
28. Wrote Sounder
William Armstrong
HG Wells
Patricia Maclachlan
TS Eliot
29. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Sylvia Plath
Beloved
James Joyce
30. 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
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Percy Bysshe Shelley
William Armstrong
Countee Cullen
31. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
Ralph Waldo Emerson
TS Eliot
Lois Lowry
JD Salinger
32. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Zora Neale Hurston
Christopher Paul Curtis
Robert Cormier
David Copperfield
33. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
Virgil
Aurora Leigh
Elie Wiesel
William Armstrong
34. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Ernest Hemingway
Lord of the Flies
Aphra Behn
Robinson Crusoe
35. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Amy Tan
Macbeth
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Mary Shelley
36. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
Emily Dickinson
Frederick Douglass
The Joy Luck Club
The Picture of Dorian Gray
37. Wrote Little Women; American novelist
Robert Cormier
Louisa May Alcott
Virginia Woolf
Scott O'Dell
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
Christopher Marlowe
TS Eliot
Crime and Punishment
39. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Jane Austen
Anne Frank
The Catcher in the Rye
The Joy Luck Club
40. 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
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Robinson Crusoe
Holes
Their Eyes Were Watching God
41. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
Farenheit 451
Kate Chopin
To Kill a Mockingbird
CS Lewis
42. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
Alice In Wonderland
Mildred Taylor
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Not Without Laughter
43. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Frederick Douglass
Avi
Anne Bradstreet
James Joyce
44. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
Stephen Crane
Lewis Carroll
Walt Whitman
William Armstrong
45. Wrote Watership Down
Richard Adams
Sonnet 18
William Armstrong
Emily Dickinson
46. 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
CS Lewis
Moby Dick
Virginia Woolf
Paul Zindel
47. Wrote The House on Mango Street
The Outsiders
Katherine Patterson
Sandra Cisneros
Henry David Thoreau
48. Wrote The Aeneid
William Golding
Virgil
The Giver
Aphra Behn
49. 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
Virginia Woolf
John Keats
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Edgar Allan Poe
50. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
The Red Badge of Courage
SE Hinton
Henry David Thoreau
Kate Chopin