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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)
Ray Bradbury
Amy Tan
Madeline L'Engle
John Keats
2. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
Alice In Wonderland
Kate Dicamillo
Anne Bradstreet
Charlotte Bronte
3. 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
Maya Angelou
Karen Hesse
1984
4. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Mary Downing Hahn
George Orwell
Stephen Crane
JD Salinger
5. Wrote The Chocolate War
'Civil Disobedience'
Farenheit 451
Robert Cormier
Robert Frost
6. 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
Avi
HG Wells
William Wordsworth
Daniel Defoe
7. 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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8. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Elizabeth George Speare
Alice In Wonderland
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Leo Tolstoy
9. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Oscar Wilde
Anne Bradstreet
S.E. Hinton
Johann David Wyss
10. Wrote The Weary Blues - The Ways of White Folks - and Not Without Laughter; American poet - novelist - playwright - short story writer - and columnist; early innovator for literary art known as jazz poetry; best known for work during Harlem Renaissan
Langston Hughes
Jerry Spinelli
Emily Bronte
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
11. Wrote Ethan Frome
Watership Down
Edith Wharton
Christopher Marlowe
Jane Eyre
12. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Holes
Madeline L'Engle
Avi
Jerry Spinelli
13. 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
JRR Tolkein
Not Without Laughter
Animal Farm
Countee Cullen
14. 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
Lord of the Flies
Washington Irving
Farenheit 451
CS Lewis
15. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
Not Without Laughter
TS Eliot
Elie Wiesel
Emily Dickinson
16. 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'
Emily Dickinson
Ben Mikaelson
Daniel Defoe
17. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
The Outsiders
The Giver
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Caroline Cooney
18. 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
Harper Lee
Nancy Farmer
Robinson Crusoe
Geoffrey Chaucer
19. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Macbeth
The Red Badge of Courage
Charles Dickens
20. Wrote Sounder
Jack London
William Armstrong
Kate Dicamillo
Paul Zindel
21. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty
Lord of the Flies
Zora Neale Hurston
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Ester Forbes
22. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
Ben Mikaelson
EB White
Maya Angelou
Anne Bradstreet
23. 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.
The Aeneid
William Shakespeare
Washington Irving
Carl Hiaason
24. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
Mary Shelley
Edgar Allan Poe
William Butler Yeats
Frederick Douglass
25. Wrote The Aeneid
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Virgil
Caroline Cooney
Sonnet 18
26. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
Patricia Maclachlan
Avi
The Call of the Wild
Oscar Wilde
27. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Giver
Stephen Crane
The Great Gatsby
28. 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
Animal Farm
Katherine Patterson
Johann David Wyss
Virginia Woolf
29. 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
Robert Frost
Ben Mikaelson
The Great Gatsby
Oscar Wilde
30. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
James Joyce
The Pigman
Helen Keller
Richard Adams
31. 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
Washington Irving
Avi
Moby Dick
John Keats
32. Wrote Jane Eyre
Zora Neale Hurston
Amy Tan
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Charlotte Bronte
33. '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
Jerry Spinelli
Sonnet 18
CS Lewis
Sandra Cisneros
34. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
Sonnet 18
Lewis Carroll
George Orwell
Jane Austen
35. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
The Aeneid
JD Salinger
Johann David Wyss
Ralph Waldo Emerson
36. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
James Joyce
Daniel Defoe
Patricia Maclachlan
Moby Dick
37. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
William Armstrong
Ernest Hemingway
Ray Bradbury
Farenheit 451
38. Wrote Maniac Magee
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
'In Reference to her Children'
Jerry Spinelli
William Butler Yeats
39. Wrote Charlotte's Web
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Mary Shelley
EB White
Elie Wiesel
40. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
Little Women
Elie Wiesel
Mark Twain
JD Salinger
41. Wrote The Yearling
James Joyce
Helen Keller
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Crime and Punishment
42. 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
Alice Walker
Harper Lee
Their Eyes Were Watching God
HG Wells
43. Wrote Shiloh
George Orwell
Robert Cormier
Carl Hiaason
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
44. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
Farenheit 451
Jean Craighead George
Mary Shelley
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
45. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
Frederick Douglass
CS Lewis
Leo Tolstoy
Little Women
46. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Frankenstein
Sylvia Plath
47. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
Toni Morrison
Jack London
Katherine Patterson
William Wordsworth
48. Wrote The Pigman
Sandra Cisneros
Geoffrey Chaucer
David Copperfield
Paul Zindel
49. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
'In Reference to her Children'
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
'Self - Reliance'
Nancy Farmer
50. Wrote Little Women; American novelist
Jean Craighead George
Oscar Wilde
Louisa May Alcott
Stephen Crane