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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
David Copperfield
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Virginia Woolf
TS Eliot
2. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Lord of the Flies
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Anna Karenina
Mary Shelley
3. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Alice In Wonderland
Ruth Avi
Sonnet 18
Harper Lee
4. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
The Bell Jar
The Great Gatsby
Kate Dicamillo
David Copperfield
5. Wrote The Outsiders
Richard Adams
William Armstrong
TS Eliot
SE Hinton
6. Wrote Hatchet
Maya Angelou
Gary Paulson
The Call of the Wild
Karen Hesse
7. 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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8. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Lord of the Flies
Jean Craighead George
Animal Farm
Christopher Marlowe
9. Wrote The Aeneid
Ester Forbes
Virgil
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Farenheit 451
10. Wrote Charlotte's Web
EB White
JD Salinger
Avi
William Armstrong
11. 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
Langston Hughes
Mildred Taylor
CS Lewis
Farenheit 451
12. 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
Mildred Taylor
The Joy Luck Club
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
13. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
The Aeneid
Mildred Taylor
Herman Melville
TS Eliot
14. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Anne Frank
Sharon Creech
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Moby Dick
15. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
Emily Bronte
Leo Tolstoy
Zora Neale Hurston
George Orwell
16. Wrote Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
Anne Frank
'Civil Disobedience'
Moby Dick
17. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
William Butler Yeats
Edgar Allan Poe
Mark Twain
Mildred Taylor
18. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Bell Jar
George Orwell
Ralph Waldo Emerson
19. 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
Ray Bradbury
Moby Dick
Emily Bronte
Animal Farm
20. Wrote Wuthering Heights
'In Reference to her Children'
Christopher Marlowe
Emily Bronte
Robert Frost
21. 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
Mildred Taylor
Maya Angelou
Countee Cullen
Langston Hughes
22. Wrote Johnny Tremain
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Patricia Maclachlan
The Joy Luck Club
Ester Forbes
23. 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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24. 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
Christopher Marlowe
Langston Hughes
TS Eliot
Zora Neale Hurston
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
Beowulf
Geoffrey Chaucer
Anna Karenina
Jack London
26. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
Jean Craighead George
Mildred Taylor
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Charlotte Bronte
27. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
Anna Karenina
Alice In Wonderland
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Henry David Thoreau
28. Wrote Shiloh
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Ray Bradbury
Mildred Taylor
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
29. 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
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Holes
The Great Gatsby
Emily Bronte
30. Gothic novel; a scientist creates a monster - and then abandons it in horror - a decision that leads to disaster and the deaths of nearly everyone he loves
Langston Hughes
Carl Hiaason
Frankenstein
Ray Bradbury
31. 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
'Self - Reliance'
1984
The Call of the Wild
Farenheit 451
32. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
Helen Keller
Beloved
Walt Whitman
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
33. Wrote Sonnet 18 - Hamlet - and Macbeth; greatest playwright who ever lived - prolific poet - known for sonnets
Gary Paulson
Aphra Behn
The Giver
William Shakespeare
34. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe
Beloved
Helen Keller
John Keats
Geoffrey Chaucer
35. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
Sylvia Plath
Scott O'Dell
Richard Adams
Henry David Thoreau
36. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
Holes
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Gary Paulson
Ester Forbes
37. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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38. 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
Not Without Laughter
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Daniel Defoe
Frankenstein
39. 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
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lois Lowry
Virginia Woolf
TS Eliot
40. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
Anne Frank
Farenheit 451
Jack London
Moby Dick
41. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
CS Lewis
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Geoffrey Chaucer
Carl Hiaason
42. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
S.E. Hinton
Toni Morrison
To Kill a Mockingbird
Amy Tan
43. 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
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Herman Melville
Stephen Crane
John Keats
44. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Lois Lowry
William Armstrong
Aurora Leigh
Mildred Taylor
45. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
David Copperfield
Lord of the Flies
Fyodor Dostoevsky
46. 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
Countee Cullen
Louisa May Alcott
Sharon Creech
William Wordsworth
47. 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
The Giver
Maya Angelou
John Keats
Kate Chopin
48. Wrote Roll of Thunder
Washington Irving
Virgil
Madeline L'Engle
Mildred Taylor
49. Wrote The Pigman
Paul Zindel
Beowulf
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Harper Lee
50. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
The Outsiders
TS Eliot
Ester Forbes
HG Wells