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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote The Awakening - The Storm; feminist author of the 20th century; born in St. Louis - Missouri
Kate Chopin
Wendy Towle
CS Lewis
F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Anna Karenina
Macbeth
Geoffrey Chaucer
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
3. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
Avi
Mildred Taylor
Moby Dick
The Aeneid
4. 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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5. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
The Call of the Wild
William Wordsworth
Daniel Defoe
Jean Craighead George
6. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Robert Cormier
The Catcher in the Rye
The Great Gatsby
7. Wrote Jane Eyre
Mildred Taylor
'Civil Disobedience'
Charlotte Bronte
Maya Angelou
8. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
The Pigman
Anne Bradstreet
Ben Mikaelson
Maya Angelou
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
Louis Sacher
Sonnet 18
Ben Mikaelson
The Pigman
10. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
EB White
William Golding
Lois Lowry
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
11. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
The Call of the Wild
Frederick Douglass
Daniel Defoe
The Bell Jar
12. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
William Wordsworth
Walter Dean Myers
Herman Melville
William Golding
13. 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
William Armstrong
Nancy Farmer
The Joy Luck Club
Mildred Taylor
14. Wrote Out of the Dust
Virgil
Karen Hesse
Henry David Thoreau
Frankenstein
15. Wrote Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton
The Catcher in the Rye
Lord of the Flies
The Joy Luck Club
16. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
Langston Hughes
Anne Frank
William Shakespeare
Willa Cather
17. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
Lord Byron
The Pigman
Carl Hiaason
The Red Badge of Courage
18. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Mildred Taylor
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mary Shelley
Alice Walker
19. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
The Giver
Not Without Laughter
Scott O'Dell
The Great Gatsby
20. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Anne Bradstreet
Ernest Hemingway
Robert Frost
Johann David Wyss
21. 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
Gary Paulson
1984
Katherine Patterson
Edgar Allan Poe
22. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Joy Luck Club
William Butler Yeats
Christopher Paul Curtis
23. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
'Self - Reliance'
The Giver
TS Eliot
The Red Badge of Courage
24. Wrote The Yearling
William Armstrong
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Louis Sacher
Wendy Towle
25. Wrote The Aeneid
The Bell Jar
Virgil
The Pigman
Sandra Cisneros
26. 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
1984
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Call of the Wild
27. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
Virginia Woolf
Aurora Leigh
George Orwell
Ester Forbes
28. 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;
The Giver
Aphra Behn
Farenheit 451
Caroline Cooney
29. 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
Mildred Taylor
Not Without Laughter
Moby Dick
Kate Dicamillo
30. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
Charles Dickens
Beowulf
Louisa May Alcott
Herman Melville
31. 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
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Holes
Macbeth
Willa Cather
32. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
Holes
HG Wells
Christopher Paul Curtis
Aphra Behn
33. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
George Orwell
Avi
Beowulf
Louisa May Alcott
34. 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
Edgar Allan Poe
Holes
Mary Downing Hahn
Oscar Wilde
35. Wrote The Lion - the Witch - and the Wardrobe
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Jack London
CS Lewis
Nancy Farmer
36. 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
The Outsiders
Edith Wharton
Lewis Carroll
F. Scott Fitzgerald
37. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Richard Adams
Watership Down
JRR Tolkein
38. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Avi
Virginia Woolf
James Joyce
39. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
Mary Shelley
The Bell Jar
Ben Mikaelson
Mark Twain
40. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mark Twain
The Joy Luck Club
Zora Neale Hurston
41. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
'Self - Reliance'
The Catcher in the Rye
Jack London
Edith Wharton
42. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Sharon Creech
Toni Morrison
Mildred Taylor
Robert Cormier
43. Wrote The Outsiders
Robinson Crusoe
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
S.E. Hinton
Kate Chopin
44. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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45. Wrote The Hobbit
Oscar Wilde
SE Hinton
JRR Tolkein
The Giver
46. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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47. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
To Kill a Mockingbird
Toni Morrison
Moby Dick
Watership Down
48. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Scott O'Dell
Alice Walker
Jack London
Nancy Farmer
49. Wrote Holes
William Golding
Louis Sacher
The Great Gatsby
Louisa May Alcott
50. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
Washington Irving
Frankenstein
Richard Adams
Robert Cormier