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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
Countee Cullen
Alice In Wonderland
James Joyce
William Butler Yeats
2. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
Holes
Ester Forbes
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edgar Allan Poe
3. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Louisa May Alcott
Mark Twain
Ben Mikaelson
Walt Whitman
4. 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
William Butler Yeats
William Armstrong
Edgar Allan Poe
5. heroic fantasy novel about a small group of British rabbits; Fiver - a young runt rabbit who is a seer - receives a frightening vision of his warren's imminent destruction
Madeline L'Engle
'In Reference to her Children'
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Watership Down
6. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
TS Eliot
Mary Shelley
Alice Walker
Elie Wiesel
7. Wrote Out of the Dust
Karen Hesse
John Keats
Anne Bradstreet
Henry David Thoreau
8. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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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
Mary Downing Hahn
Jane Eyre
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Moby Dick
10. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Jack London
The Pigman
Herman Melville
Lewis Carroll
11. Wrote Sonnet 18 - Hamlet - and Macbeth; greatest playwright who ever lived - prolific poet - known for sonnets
Jack London
William Shakespeare
Sharon Creech
Sonnet 18
12. 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
Ben Mikaelson
Holes
Emily Dickinson
Helen Keller
13. Wrote Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Mansfield Park - et al.
Willa Cather
Caroline Cooney
Jane Austen
Geoffrey Chaucer
14. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
The Outsiders
Jerry Spinelli
Mildred Taylor
Jack London
15. Wrote Jane Eyre
Virginia Woolf
The Joy Luck Club
Scott O'Dell
Charlotte Bronte
16. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
The Outsiders
Virginia Woolf
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Aurora Leigh
17. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
The Outsiders
SE Hinton
Ray Bradbury
Richard Adams
18. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
Stephen Crane
Washington Irving
Macbeth
Alice Walker
19. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
David Copperfield
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Aurora Leigh
Sonnet 18
20. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
William Golding
Carl Hiaason
Amy Tan
Animal Farm
21. 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;
Christopher Marlowe
The Giver
Mark Twain
Avi
22. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Mildred Taylor
Ben Mikaelson
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
23. Wrote Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton
The Outsiders
Nathaniel Hawthorne
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
24. Wrote Hatchet
Edgar Allan Poe
Gary Paulson
Ruth Avi
Anna Karenina
25. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Emily Dickinson
The Aeneid
TS Eliot
26. 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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27. Wrote The Yearling
Washington Irving
Sylvia Plath
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Edith Wharton
28. 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
Robert Cormier
Amy Tan
Oscar Wilde
29. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Caroline Cooney
Farenheit 451
To Kill a Mockingbird
CS Lewis
30. 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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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
Anne Frank
Anne Bradstreet
William Shakespeare
Macbeth
32. Wrote Doctor Faustus
Daniel Defoe
Christopher Marlowe
Ben Mikaelson
Mark Twain
33. 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'
Avi
Ernest Hemingway
Alice Walker
Frederick Douglass
34. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
HG Wells
Carl Hiaason
'In Reference to her Children'
Sylvia Plath
35. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Katherine Patterson
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Countee Cullen
Toni Morrison
36. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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37. Wrote Watership Down
Helen Keller
Frederick Douglass
Robert Frost
Richard Adams
38. 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.
William Armstrong
Madeline L'Engle
The Aeneid
Jane Austen
39. 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
Jerry Spinelli
The Bell Jar
William Armstrong
Their Eyes Were Watching God
40. Wrote The Great Gatsby
HG Wells
Edith Wharton
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Robinson Crusoe
41. Wrote The Aeneid
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Leo Tolstoy
Virgil
Mary Shelley
42. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Paul Zindel
Sandra Cisneros
Maya Angelou
1984
43. An impoverished young woman (Jane) struggles to maintain her autonomy in the face of oppression - prejudice - and love; Gothic novel - bildungsroman - social portest novel
Nancy Farmer
Jane Eyre
Mary Downing Hahn
Anne Bradstreet
44. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Amy Tan
Avi
Lord Byron
Aurora Leigh
45. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
James Joyce
William Armstrong
EB White
Lewis Carroll
46. Wrote The House on Mango Street
Mary Shelley
Anne Frank
Crime and Punishment
Sandra Cisneros
47. Wrote The Outsiders
SE Hinton
Little Women
The Outsiders
Henry David Thoreau
48. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Willa Cather
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Pigman
49. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
The Bell Jar
EB White
The Catcher in the Rye
Helen Keller
50. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
Oscar Wilde
The Aeneid
Alice Walker
Geoffrey Chaucer
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