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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. 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.
Elizabeth George Speare
Moby Dick
The Aeneid
'In Reference to her Children'
2. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
Christopher Marlowe
William Golding
HG Wells
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
3. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
Willa Cather
Washington Irving
Jean Craighead George
Helen Keller
4. 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'
Not Without Laughter
Anne Frank
Anne Bradstreet
Ernest Hemingway
5. Wrote The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros
Zora Neale Hurston
David Copperfield
The Outsiders
6. 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate;' Shakespearean couplet with ABAB CDCE EFEF GG rhyme scheme
Kate Dicamillo
Scott O'Dell
Sonnet 18
Little Women
7. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Ben Mikaelson
Jane Eyre
Mildred Taylor
8. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird; American author
Harper Lee
Henry David Thoreau
Lord Byron
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
9. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Sonnet 18
Jane Austen
Daniel Defoe
Fyodor Dostoevsky
10. 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
Christopher Marlowe
Louis Sacher
Ruth Avi
John Keats
11. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
Kate Dicamillo
Moby Dick
Anna Karenina
Sylvia Plath
12. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Watership Down
Ray Bradbury
The Great Gatsby
13. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
David Copperfield
Mary Shelley
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Beowulf
14. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Scott O'Dell
Wendy Towle
Washington Irving
Lewis Carroll
15. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
Edgar Allan Poe
The Picture of Dorian Gray
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
George Orwell
16. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
17. 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
Herman Melville
Countee Cullen
Robinson Crusoe
JRR Tolkein
18. 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
Ray Bradbury
Farenheit 451
Avi
Holes
19. Wrote Shiloh
Edgar Allan Poe
Christopher Paul Curtis
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Lord of the Flies
20. Wrote Maniac Magee
Richard Adams
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Jerry Spinelli
Wendy Towle
21. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Helen Keller
Aurora Leigh
The Pigman
Johann David Wyss
22. Wrote The Aeneid
TS Eliot
Virgil
Christopher Marlowe
Kate Dicamillo
23. Wrote Watership Down
Mildred Taylor
Richard Adams
Ray Bradbury
Zora Neale Hurston
24. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
The Bell Jar
William Golding
Aurora Leigh
Animal Farm
25. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Crime and Punishment
Anne Frank
Jack London
26. 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
Walter Dean Myers
Macbeth
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Ernest Hemingway
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
28. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Jean Craighead George
Paul Zindel
Ben Mikaelson
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
29. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
SE Hinton
S.E. Hinton
Lord Byron
30. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
SE Hinton
James Joyce
Farenheit 451
Robinson Crusoe
31. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
Christopher Marlowe
Alice In Wonderland
Louis Sacher
The Outsiders
32. Wrote Hoot
Mildred Taylor
Carl Hiaason
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Elizabeth George Speare
33. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Jack London
Animal Farm
Amy Tan
Robinson Crusoe
34. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
Alice Walker
JD Salinger
George Orwell
F. Scott Fitzgerald
35. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
Elizabeth George Speare
Ray Bradbury
The Bell Jar
Carl Hiaason
36. 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
Walt Whitman
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Harper Lee
Washington Irving
37. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Virginia Woolf
Virgil
William Butler Yeats
Sharon Creech
38. Told in chapters alternating from Lorraine's and John's point of view - opens with an 'Oath -' signed by both John and Lorraine - two high school sophomores - in which they swear to tell only the facts - in this 'memorial epic' about their experience
Henry David Thoreau
Aphra Behn
The Great Gatsby
The Pigman
39. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Karen Hesse
Maya Angelou
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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
The Call of the Wild
'In Reference to her Children'
Caroline Cooney
The Great Gatsby
41. 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
S.E. Hinton
Lois Lowry
Emily Dickinson
Anne Frank
42. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
Elie Wiesel
CS Lewis
HG Wells
William Armstrong
43. Wrote Jane Eyre
Animal Farm
William Butler Yeats
Charlotte Bronte
Frankenstein
44. Wrote A Wrinkle in Time - A Swiftly Tilting Planet - A Wind in the Door - The Small Rain - 24 Days before Christmas
45. 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
Beloved
Charlotte Bronte
Aurora Leigh
Moby Dick
46. Wrote The Yearling
Frankenstein
Oscar Wilde
S.E. Hinton
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
47. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Nancy Farmer
Geoffrey Chaucer
Crime and Punishment
48. Book written by George Orwell - announced an insane world of dehumanization through terror in which the individual was systematically obliterated by an all - power elite; key phrases: Big Brother - doublethink - Newspeak - the Ministry of Peace...Tru
Elizabeth George Speare
1984
Louis Sacher
Zora Neale Hurston
49. 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
Anne Frank
Kate Chopin
Alice Walker
50. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
'Civil Disobedience'
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Farenheit 451
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling