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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Robert Frost
Jack London
Aphra Behn
2. Wrote Roll of Thunder
Ray Bradbury
Ben Mikaelson
Mildred Taylor
Emily Bronte
3. 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
Virginia Woolf
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Aeneid
Louis Sacher
4. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
Oscar Wilde
HG Wells
Sonnet 18
Henry David Thoreau
5. Wrote The Aeneid
Virgil
The Red Badge of Courage
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Christopher Paul Curtis
6. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
Stephen Crane
Willa Cather
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
To Kill a Mockingbird
7. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Crime and Punishment
Beloved
George Orwell
Sharon Creech
8. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Mary Shelley
Richard Adams
Ray Bradbury
Beloved
9. 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
Walt Whitman
Willa Cather
The Call of the Wild
The Pigman
10. 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
Robert Frost
The Aeneid
Macbeth
'Civil Disobedience'
11. 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
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Joy Luck Club
Daniel Defoe
SE Hinton
12. 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
Crime and Punishment
George Orwell
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
'Civil Disobedience'
13. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker
Ralph Waldo Emerson
TS Eliot
Jean Craighead George
Johann David Wyss
14. Wrote The Yearling
Farenheit 451
Frederick Douglass
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
'Civil Disobedience'
15. 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
Jerry Spinelli
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Not Without Laughter
Aphra Behn
16. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Little Women
Aphra Behn
Charlotte Bronte
Kate Chopin
17. Wrote The Outsiders
George Orwell
Leo Tolstoy
S.E. Hinton
Aurora Leigh
18. 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
Christopher Paul Curtis
Lewis Carroll
Robert Frost
Jane Eyre
19. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
Walter Dean Myers
The Great Gatsby
Kate Dicamillo
Anne Bradstreet
20. Wrote Little Women; American novelist
Karen Hesse
Sylvia Plath
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Louisa May Alcott
21. Wrote Night
Elie Wiesel
Sharon Creech
Aphra Behn
HG Wells
22. The protagonist of the story is a boy named Sandy whose family must deal with a variety of struggles imposed upon them due to their race and class in society in addition to relating to one another
Madeline L'Engle
The Picture of Dorian Gray
TS Eliot
Not Without Laughter
23. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
Charles Dickens
Watership Down
John Keats
Virgil
24. 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
Henry David Thoreau
William Shakespeare
Kate Dicamillo
25. 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
Jane Austen
The Red Badge of Courage
1984
Beowulf
26. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
Alice In Wonderland
William Golding
Jean Craighead George
Louisa May Alcott
27. Wrote Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton
William Shakespeare
Macbeth
Ernest Hemingway
28. 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
Moby Dick
Caroline Cooney
Edgar Allan Poe
Lewis Carroll
29. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
William Butler Yeats
Ernest Hemingway
Lord Byron
TS Eliot
30. 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
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Great Gatsby
Farenheit 451
William Golding
31. 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
Frankenstein
Aphra Behn
William Golding
32. Wrote The Glory Field
The Giver
Walter Dean Myers
'In Reference to her Children'
Langston Hughes
33. 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
Frederick Douglass
The Outsiders
The Catcher in the Rye
Beowulf
34. 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
Countee Cullen
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Christopher Marlowe
John Keats
35. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Caroline Cooney
Avi
The Great Gatsby
Virgil
36. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Caroline Cooney
Edith Wharton
Herman Melville
Toni Morrison
37. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Wendy Towle
Mildred Taylor
Jane Eyre
Henry David Thoreau
38. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist
Henry David Thoreau
Edgar Allan Poe
Oscar Wilde
Elizabeth George Speare
39. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird; American author
William Butler Yeats
Harper Lee
Alice Walker
CS Lewis
40. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
Frederick Douglass
Helen Keller
To Kill a Mockingbird
Washington Irving
41. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Harper Lee
William Golding
Amy Tan
Johann David Wyss
42. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
Edgar Allan Poe
Alice In Wonderland
James Joyce
Beloved
43. Wrote Johnny Tremain
Ester Forbes
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Outsiders
Walt Whitman
44. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Scott O'Dell
Anne Bradstreet
Maya Angelou
Frankenstein
45. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
Avi
Jerry Spinelli
Mary Downing Hahn
Mildred Taylor
46. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
JRR Tolkein
William Butler Yeats
The Red Badge of Courage
47. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
Frederick Douglass
Louis Sacher
William Golding
Lois Lowry
48. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
Kate Dicamillo
Harper Lee
Beowulf
Zora Neale Hurston
49. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Jean Craighead George
Nancy Farmer
Stephen Crane
Henry David Thoreau
50. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
Christopher Paul Curtis
Animal Farm
Moby Dick
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