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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
The Call of the Wild
The Bell Jar
Gary Paulson
James Joyce
2. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
Crime and Punishment
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Amy Tan
Charles Dickens
3. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
William Butler Yeats
Anne Frank
The Catcher in the Rye
Crime and Punishment
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 The Glory Field
Walter Dean Myers
Ray Bradbury
William Shakespeare
Jean Craighead George
6. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
S.E. Hinton
Mildred Taylor
Mark Twain
JD Salinger
7. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
Nancy Farmer
Jane Austen
Christopher Paul Curtis
Paul Zindel
8. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
Mildred Taylor
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Catcher in the Rye
Washington Irving
9. 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
Macbeth
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Katherine Patterson
10. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
Helen Keller
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Madeline L'Engle
Patricia Maclachlan
11. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Jack London
Caroline Cooney
Karen Hesse
Mildred Taylor
12. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Langston Hughes
Katherine Patterson
Virgil
Anna Karenina
13. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe
Washington Irving
Gary Paulson
Beloved
Anna Karenina
14. 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
The Outsiders
The Great Gatsby
Animal Farm
The Joy Luck Club
15. Wrote The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros
Oscar Wilde
John Keats
To Kill a Mockingbird
16. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
Alice In Wonderland
Christopher Marlowe
Mary Downing Hahn
Katherine Patterson
17. Wrote Maniac Magee
'Self - Reliance'
Christopher Paul Curtis
Edgar Allan Poe
Jerry Spinelli
18. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
Sonnet 18
Elizabeth George Speare
Sharon Creech
Frederick Douglass
19. 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
George Orwell
Alice In Wonderland
Beowulf
Mildred Taylor
20. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Watership Down
Frankenstein
Aphra Behn
Holes
21. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Ray Bradbury
George Orwell
CS Lewis
Amy Tan
22. Wrote Out of the Dust
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Karen Hesse
Scott O'Dell
Richard Adams
23. Wrote A Farewell to Arms - The Old Man and the Sea - and The Sun Also Rises; American writer and journalist; veteran of WWI - belongs to literary movement called 'The Lost Generation'
Anne Frank
Ernest Hemingway
Jane Eyre
Christopher Marlowe
24. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
Katherine Patterson
Maya Angelou
Kate Dicamillo
Frederick Douglass
25. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
The Outsiders
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Virgil
To Kill a Mockingbird
26. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
Charlotte Bronte
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Catcher in the Rye
Charles Dickens
27. 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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28. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Lewis Carroll
Mary Downing Hahn
HG Wells
Alice In Wonderland
29. Wrote Sonnet 18 - Hamlet - and Macbeth; greatest playwright who ever lived - prolific poet - known for sonnets
William Shakespeare
Anna Karenina
Wendy Towle
Leo Tolstoy
30. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
Willa Cather
The Giver
Lord Byron
Farenheit 451
31. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Great Gatsby
Jerry Spinelli
Lewis Carroll
32. 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;
Avi
The Giver
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
'Self - Reliance'
33. Wrote Little Women; American novelist
Anne Bradstreet
William Armstrong
Geoffrey Chaucer
Louisa May Alcott
34. Wrote Doctor Faustus
Little Women
Patricia Maclachlan
William Wordsworth
Christopher Marlowe
35. Wrote The Aeneid
Mary Downing Hahn
Gary Paulson
Virgil
Ben Mikaelson
36. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
Aphra Behn
James Joyce
Edith Wharton
Lord of the Flies
37. 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
Macbeth
Stephen Crane
Aurora Leigh
Beowulf
38. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Watership Down
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mildred Taylor
39. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Oscar Wilde
Ben Mikaelson
Ruth Avi
F. Scott Fitzgerald
40. Wrote Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton
Madeline L'Engle
Lois Lowry
The Call of the Wild
41. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Ernest Hemingway
Charlotte Bronte
The Call of the Wild
Lois Lowry
42. 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
The Red Badge of Courage
Amy Tan
Avi
Farenheit 451
43. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Amy Tan
Moby Dick
Mark Twain
Ernest Hemingway
44. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist
Helen Keller
1984
Edith Wharton
Henry David Thoreau
45. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
Patricia Maclachlan
Nancy Farmer
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
'In Reference to her Children'
46. Wrote Walk Two Moons
1984
Ben Mikaelson
Sharon Creech
Ray Bradbury
47. Wrote Watership Down
Jack London
Richard Adams
Elizabeth George Speare
Willa Cather
48. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
Charlotte Bronte
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Louis Sacher
Virgil
49. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Louis Sacher
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Johann David Wyss
Sandra Cisneros
50. Wrote Shiloh
Edgar Allan Poe
Ben Mikaelson
TS Eliot
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
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