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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. In an attempt to prove a theory - a student (Raskolnikov) murders two women - after which he suffers greatly from guilt and worry; psychological drama - setting in the 1860s
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Herman Melville
2. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
Scott O'Dell
Farenheit 451
Jack London
Wendy Towle
3. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
Walt Whitman
The Pigman
Alice Walker
Ruth Avi
4. 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
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Great Gatsby
Macbeth
Henry David Thoreau
5. Wrote Out of the Dust
Moby Dick
Elizabeth George Speare
Karen Hesse
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
6. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
Alice Walker
Ernest Hemingway
Stephen Crane
JD Salinger
7. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Caroline Cooney
HG Wells
Christopher Paul Curtis
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
8. 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
Fyodor Dostoevsky
David Copperfield
Their Eyes Were Watching God
TS Eliot
9. Wrote 'Any Human to Another -' 'Color -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl;' American Romantic poet; leading African - American poets of his time; associated with generation of poets of the Harlem Renaissance
Countee Cullen
Charles Dickens
Mary Downing Hahn
The Picture of Dorian Gray
10. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
William Wordsworth
Farenheit 451
Madeline L'Engle
Christopher Paul Curtis
11. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
Aurora Leigh
Virginia Woolf
TS Eliot
Alice Walker
12. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
Zora Neale Hurston
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Harper Lee
Walt Whitman
13. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
Mark Twain
Jack London
Johann David Wyss
Sylvia Plath
14. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
To Kill a Mockingbird
Beloved
Karen Hesse
Mildred Taylor
15. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
David Copperfield
Aurora Leigh
Willa Cather
James Joyce
16. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird; American author
The Call of the Wild
Katherine Patterson
Little Women
Harper Lee
17. Wrote Doctor Faustus
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
William Golding
Christopher Marlowe
Jane Eyre
18. Wrote Night
S.E. Hinton
Kate Chopin
Elie Wiesel
Walt Whitman
19. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
Kate Dicamillo
Harper Lee
Patricia Maclachlan
Elizabeth George Speare
20. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe
Beloved
'In Reference to her Children'
TS Eliot
JD Salinger
21. 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
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Richard Adams
'Self - Reliance'
Farenheit 451
22. 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
William Shakespeare
Frankenstein
TS Eliot
The Call of the Wild
23. 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
Emily Dickinson
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Aeneid
Robert Frost
24. 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
Watership Down
Holes
John Keats
Lewis Carroll
25. 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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26. 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
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John Keats
Oscar Wilde
Langston Hughes
27. Wrote The Yearling
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Virgil
Not Without Laughter
Leo Tolstoy
28. 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
Fyodor Dostoevsky
JD Salinger
The Outsiders
29. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
The Call of the Wild
Katherine Patterson
Jack London
Emily Dickinson
30. Wrote Holes
Louis Sacher
Louisa May Alcott
Gary Paulson
Jane Austen
31. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
Walter Dean Myers
Nancy Farmer
Wendy Towle
William Armstrong
32. Wrote The Fall of the House of Usher - The Murders in the Rue Morgue - and The Raven; wrote poems: 'To Science -' 'The City and the Sea -' and 'Silence;' American writer - poet - editor and literary critic; part of American Romantic Movement
Amy Tan
Washington Irving
Walt Whitman
Edgar Allan Poe
33. 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
Moby Dick
Virgil
Aurora Leigh
34. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
The Joy Luck Club
Not Without Laughter
Maya Angelou
William Wordsworth
35. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
Ben Mikaelson
The Great Gatsby
Stephen Crane
Lois Lowry
36. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Daniel Defoe
Harper Lee
Christopher Marlowe
Amy Tan
37. Wrote Roll of Thunder
Alice In Wonderland
Virgil
Mildred Taylor
Walter Dean Myers
38. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
Scott O'Dell
'Self - Reliance'
S.E. Hinton
Willa Cather
39. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
James Joyce
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Henry David Thoreau
40. 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
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Call of the Wild
Ruth Avi
The Great Gatsby
41. 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
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lois Lowry
'Self - Reliance'
David Copperfield
42. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
SE Hinton
Alice Walker
Animal Farm
Wendy Towle
43. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism
William Armstrong
William Butler Yeats
Lord Byron
Louis Sacher
44. 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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45. Wrote The Hobbit
Katherine Patterson
Watership Down
JRR Tolkein
The Joy Luck Club
46. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
Patricia Maclachlan
The Bell Jar
Sonnet 18
Lord of the Flies
47. Wrote Ethan Frome
William Butler Yeats
Edith Wharton
Mary Shelley
Virgil
48. 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
Madeline L'Engle
Harper Lee
Johann David Wyss
49. 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
Aurora Leigh
Patricia Maclachlan
The Giver
Virginia Woolf
50. 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
Emily Dickinson
Charlotte Bronte
Ben Mikaelson
JD Salinger