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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote The Aeneid
Alice In Wonderland
Virgil
Emily Dickinson
Robert Frost
2. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Nancy Farmer
The Joy Luck Club
Caroline Cooney
Sylvia Plath
3. A pampered dog (Buck) adjusts to the harsh realities of life in the North as he struggles with his recovered wild instincts and finds a master (John Thorton) who treats him right; novel - adventure story - setting late 1890s
CS Lewis
The Call of the Wild
Ben Mikaelson
Robinson Crusoe
4. Wrote Roll of Thunder
Edgar Allan Poe
Lewis Carroll
Jack London
Mildred Taylor
5. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
Herman Melville
Mildred Taylor
Frederick Douglass
SE Hinton
6. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mark Twain
Mary Downing Hahn
Oscar Wilde
7. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
Walt Whitman
JD Salinger
Geoffrey Chaucer
Nathaniel Hawthorne
8. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty
Ruth Avi
The Catcher in the Rye
Lord of the Flies
Ernest Hemingway
9. Wrote Night
Elie Wiesel
Sharon Creech
Oscar Wilde
Louis Sacher
10. Wrote The Awakening - The Storm; feminist author of the 20th century; born in St. Louis - Missouri
Kate Chopin
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Walt Whitman
Anna Karenina
11. 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
'Civil Disobedience'
William Armstrong
Animal Farm
Washington Irving
12. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Walt Whitman
Ester Forbes
The Giver
Toni Morrison
13. A man is shipwrecked on an island - where he lives for more than 20 years - fending off cannibals and creating a pleasant life for himself
Charlotte Bronte
Robinson Crusoe
The Great Gatsby
Harper Lee
14. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
1984
Daniel Defoe
15. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
Henry David Thoreau
Stephen Crane
The Call of the Wild
TS Eliot
16. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
JD Salinger
Kate Chopin
Toni Morrison
The Catcher in the Rye
17. Wrote The Pigman
Willa Cather
Paul Zindel
Moby Dick
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
18. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
Walt Whitman
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Oscar Wilde
To Kill a Mockingbird
19. 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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20. 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 Picture of Dorian Gray
Carl Hiaason
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Giver
21. Wrote 'The Road Not Taken;' American poet; highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech; won Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry four times
Edith Wharton
HG Wells
Robert Frost
Mary Shelley
22. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
Maya Angelou
Nancy Farmer
Macbeth
Anne Bradstreet
23. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Patterson
Fyodor Dostoevsky
William Wordsworth
Nancy Farmer
24. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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25. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
Elizabeth George Speare
George Orwell
Crime and Punishment
Anna Karenina
26. 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
Maya Angelou
Emily Bronte
Nathaniel Hawthorne
27. Bildungsroman; after being expelled from a prep school - a 16- year - old boy (Holden Caulfield) goes to NYC - where he reflects on the phoniness of adults and heads towards a nervous breakdown
Walter Dean Myers
Lois Lowry
TS Eliot
The Catcher in the Rye
28. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
Moby Dick
Lois Lowry
Patricia Maclachlan
Lewis Carroll
29. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Animal Farm
Paul Zindel
Robert Cormier
Aphra Behn
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
Frankenstein
The Call of the Wild
Anne Frank
The Great Gatsby
31. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Christopher Marlowe
Virginia Woolf
The Call of the Wild
Jean Craighead George
32. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist
Kate Dicamillo
Henry David Thoreau
Robert Cormier
Maya Angelou
33. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
James Joyce
Alice In Wonderland
Maya Angelou
The Red Badge of Courage
34. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Washington Irving
Ray Bradbury
David Copperfield
35. Wrote Little Women; American novelist
Louisa May Alcott
Madeline L'Engle
Emily Dickinson
Jack London
36. 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
JD Salinger
'Self - Reliance'
Leo Tolstoy
37. Wrote Johnny Tremain
Walt Whitman
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Ester Forbes
1984
38. Wrote The Glory Field
Mary Shelley
Mary Downing Hahn
CS Lewis
Walter Dean Myers
39. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
David Copperfield
Emily Bronte
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1984
40. 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
Mary Shelley
Virginia Woolf
Harper Lee
William Shakespeare
41. Wrote Shiloh
Henry David Thoreau
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Paul Zindel
Anne Bradstreet
42. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Kate Dicamillo
Lewis Carroll
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Mark Twain
43. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
Richard Adams
The Picture of Dorian Gray
EB White
Charles Dickens
44. Wrote Maniac Magee
George Orwell
Jerry Spinelli
Lord of the Flies
CS Lewis
45. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
Ester Forbes
The Bell Jar
Oscar Wilde
Edith Wharton
46. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker
Ralph Waldo Emerson
'Civil Disobedience'
Animal Farm
Lord of the Flies
47. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
To Kill a Mockingbird
Elizabeth George Speare
Henry David Thoreau
Kate Chopin
48. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Ben Mikaelson
Daniel Defoe
Langston Hughes
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
49. 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
Wendy Towle
The Outsiders
Alice Walker
Fyodor Dostoevsky
50. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
The Giver
Lewis Carroll
Robert Cormier
Percy Bysshe Shelley