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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote The Glory Field
Edith Wharton
Walt Whitman
Walter Dean Myers
Virginia Woolf
2. Wrote The Awakening - The Storm; feminist author of the 20th century; born in St. Louis - Missouri
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Kate Chopin
Anne Bradstreet
Gary Paulson
3. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Ruth Avi
Charlotte Bronte
Robert Frost
Elie Wiesel
4. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
Carl Hiaason
Geoffrey Chaucer
James Joyce
Nathaniel Hawthorne
5. 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
Beloved
Stephen Crane
Gary Paulson
6. Wrote Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Mansfield Park - et al.
George Orwell
Jane Austen
Mildred Taylor
Sylvia Plath
7. 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
Helen Keller
Farenheit 451
William Golding
James Joyce
8. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Jean Craighead George
Countee Cullen
Mildred Taylor
9. 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
John Keats
Toni Morrison
SE Hinton
Moby Dick
10. After surviving a poverty - stricken childhood - the death of his mother - a cruel stepfather - and an unfortunate first marriage - a boys finds success as a writer; themes: plight of the weak - importance of equality in marriage - dangers of wealth
William Golding
Herman Melville
David Copperfield
Wendy Towle
11. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
Ruth Avi
To Kill a Mockingbird
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Willa Cather
12. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
The Red Badge of Courage
Sandra Cisneros
Avi
Ruth Avi
13. Wrote Maniac Magee
JD Salinger
Christopher Paul Curtis
Jerry Spinelli
Helen Keller
14. 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
Alice In Wonderland
Anne Frank
Toni Morrison
Emily Dickinson
15. 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
Ester Forbes
Christopher Paul Curtis
Beowulf
Virginia Woolf
16. Wrote Night
Elie Wiesel
Nancy Farmer
Willa Cather
'Civil Disobedience'
17. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
Ruth Avi
Ben Mikaelson
Kate Dicamillo
Helen Keller
18. 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
Elizabeth George Speare
Stephen Crane
Leo Tolstoy
Sandra Cisneros
19. Wrote Watership Down
TS Eliot
Aphra Behn
Richard Adams
Countee Cullen
20. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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21. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
Robinson Crusoe
Katherine Patterson
Anne Frank
Jean Craighead George
22. 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
David Copperfield
Ernest Hemingway
Mark Twain
John Keats
23. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird; American author
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mary Downing Hahn
George Orwell
Harper Lee
24. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
'In Reference to her Children'
William Armstrong
Mildred Taylor
Anne Frank
25. Wrote Little Women; American novelist
Macbeth
Louisa May Alcott
Daniel Defoe
Their Eyes Were Watching God
26. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Henry David Thoreau
Beowulf
Ralph Waldo Emerson
27. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
Elizabeth George Speare
Alice Walker
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Herman Melville
28. 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'
Carl Hiaason
Virginia Woolf
Ernest Hemingway
Moby Dick
29. Wrote Shiloh
CS Lewis
Robert Frost
Aurora Leigh
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
30. Wrote Holes
Louis Sacher
Kate Dicamillo
Anne Bradstreet
'In Reference to her Children'
31. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Oscar Wilde
Aurora Leigh
Toni Morrison
Lord of the Flies
32. 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
Holes
Langston Hughes
Walt Whitman
The Outsiders
33. 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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34. Wrote The Lion - the Witch - and the Wardrobe
CS Lewis
Maya Angelou
'In Reference to her Children'
Anna Karenina
35. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Mary Shelley
Henry David Thoreau
Edith Wharton
Mary Downing Hahn
36. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Countee Cullen
Virgil
Leo Tolstoy
Elie Wiesel
37. Wrote Johnny Tremain
Jean Craighead George
Elizabeth George Speare
1984
Ester Forbes
38. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
Mark Twain
William Golding
JRR Tolkein
Emily Bronte
39. 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;
William Golding
The Giver
Emily Bronte
The Catcher in the Rye
40. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
JRR Tolkein
John Keats
Aurora Leigh
Jerry Spinelli
41. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
Charles Dickens
Emily Dickinson
Their Eyes Were Watching God
James Joyce
42. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
Mark Twain
The Bell Jar
Kate Chopin
Alice Walker
43. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Henry David Thoreau
Mildred Taylor
Mark Twain
Sharon Creech
44. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Mary Downing Hahn
William Armstrong
Anna Karenina
William Wordsworth
45. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
Anne Bradstreet
Avi
Virginia Woolf
Walt Whitman
46. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe
Caroline Cooney
William Armstrong
Madeline L'Engle
Beloved
47. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
Edgar Allan Poe
Daniel Defoe
The Red Badge of Courage
Anne Bradstreet
48. 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
Alice Walker
Karen Hesse
William Wordsworth
Ralph Waldo Emerson
49. Wrote The Outsiders
Lord of the Flies
Ernest Hemingway
S.E. Hinton
Beloved
50. 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
Crime and Punishment
Animal Farm
Daniel Defoe
Jack London