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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
David Copperfield
Herman Melville
Zora Neale Hurston
Kate Dicamillo
2. Wrote The Aeneid
Kate Dicamillo
Emily Dickinson
Virgil
Alice Walker
3. 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
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Watership Down
Frederick Douglass
Kate Chopin
4. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
Katherine Patterson
The Red Badge of Courage
Virginia Woolf
Ester Forbes
5. Wrote Johnny Tremain
Christopher Marlowe
Virgil
Ester Forbes
Macbeth
6. 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;
Henry David Thoreau
TS Eliot
The Giver
Lord of the Flies
7. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
JD Salinger
Katherine Patterson
HG Wells
Farenheit 451
8. Wrote Jane Eyre
Virgil
Jean Craighead George
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Charlotte Bronte
9. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
Elie Wiesel
Mark Twain
The Great Gatsby
Louis Sacher
10. Wrote The Chocolate War
Robert Cormier
Aurora Leigh
Animal Farm
Robinson Crusoe
11. Wrote Wuthering Heights
Geoffrey Chaucer
Emily Bronte
Patricia Maclachlan
Fyodor Dostoevsky
12. 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
Katherine Patterson
The Aeneid
Animal Farm
Patricia Maclachlan
13. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
Beloved
Sandra Cisneros
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Washington Irving
14. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Virgil
Daniel Defoe
Willa Cather
Patricia Maclachlan
15. 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
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Stephen Crane
Louis Sacher
F. Scott Fitzgerald
16. 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
HG Wells
Beowulf
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Joy Luck Club
17. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
Ben Mikaelson
David Copperfield
Carl Hiaason
Patricia Maclachlan
18. The protagonist of the story is a boy named Sandy whose family must deal with a variety of struggles imposed upon them due to their race and class in society in addition to relating to one another
Not Without Laughter
TS Eliot
Watership Down
Percy Bysshe Shelley
19. 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
Moby Dick
Robinson Crusoe
Jane Austen
Helen Keller
20. '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
'In Reference to her Children'
William Shakespeare
Langston Hughes
Sonnet 18
21. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
EB White
Nathaniel Hawthorne
'In Reference to her Children'
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
22. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Louis Sacher
Oscar Wilde
Lord of the Flies
Jane Austen
23. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Geoffrey Chaucer
Alice In Wonderland
Mary Downing Hahn
Beloved
24. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
Edgar Allan Poe
The Bell Jar
Herman Melville
HG Wells
25. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
'In Reference to her Children'
Jack London
Helen Keller
The Joy Luck Club
26. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nancy Farmer
Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God
27. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
James Joyce
Anne Bradstreet
William Armstrong
Little Women
28. Wrote The Outsiders
The Joy Luck Club
Beloved
Christopher Paul Curtis
SE Hinton
29. 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
Robert Frost
Ernest Hemingway
John Keats
William Golding
30. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Emily Dickinson
1984
Virgil
Anne Frank
31. 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
Kate Chopin
The Call of the Wild
Aurora Leigh
32. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Anna Karenina
Walter Dean Myers
Mary Downing Hahn
Wendy Towle
33. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
William Wordsworth
Jack London
The Outsiders
JD Salinger
34. 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
JRR Tolkein
The Bell Jar
Countee Cullen
Jerry Spinelli
35. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Ruth Avi
Gary Paulson
F. Scott Fitzgerald
'Civil Disobedience'
36. 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
The Joy Luck Club
The Giver
Christopher Marlowe
Farenheit 451
37. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Lewis Carroll
Emily Dickinson
Walter Dean Myers
38. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Toni Morrison
Wendy Towle
Edgar Allan Poe
Robert Frost
39. 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
Mary Shelley
William Wordsworth
The Catcher in the Rye
James Joyce
40. Wrote Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Mansfield Park - et al.
Nancy Farmer
Jane Austen
'Self - Reliance'
William Butler Yeats
41. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
Virgil
Virginia Woolf
Toni Morrison
Geoffrey Chaucer
42. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
William Armstrong
Willa Cather
Carl Hiaason
Aurora Leigh
43. 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
Anne Bradstreet
Moby Dick
Lord Byron
Lord of the Flies
44. 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
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45. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Aphra Behn
Alice In Wonderland
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Christopher Marlowe
46. 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
David Copperfield
Jane Austen
Ray Bradbury
To Kill a Mockingbird
47. Wrote Watership Down
Louis Sacher
Richard Adams
'Self - Reliance'
Caroline Cooney
48. Wrote Maniac Magee
Alice In Wonderland
Jerry Spinelli
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Kate Chopin
49. Wrote Sounder
Macbeth
Henry David Thoreau
William Armstrong
Willa Cather
50. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Amy Tan
Katherine Patterson
1984
Lois Lowry