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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. 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
Animal Farm
Christopher Paul Curtis
Robinson Crusoe
Watership Down
2. 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
The Red Badge of Courage
Louis Sacher
The Pigman
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. Wrote The Yearling
Ernest Hemingway
George Orwell
John Keats
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
4. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Frankenstein
The Outsiders
The Aeneid
5. Wrote Hatchet
Kate Chopin
The Catcher in the Rye
Aphra Behn
Gary Paulson
6. 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
TS Eliot
HG Wells
Macbeth
Elizabeth George Speare
7. 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;
Scott O'Dell
The Giver
1984
Mildred Taylor
8. 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'
William Armstrong
Kate Dicamillo
Ernest Hemingway
The Joy Luck Club
9. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Lois Lowry
Jane Austen
Aphra Behn
Johann David Wyss
10. Wrote Out of the Dust
William Wordsworth
Lewis Carroll
Karen Hesse
Jack London
11. 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
Watership Down
Crime and Punishment
Moby Dick
Lewis Carroll
12. 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
Farenheit 451
Virginia Woolf
Scott O'Dell
Virgil
13. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Henry David Thoreau
1984
Anne Bradstreet
Maya Angelou
14. 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
Edgar Allan Poe
William Wordsworth
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Richard Adams
15. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
James Joyce
Sonnet 18
Richard Adams
Alice In Wonderland
16. 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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17. 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
Mildred Taylor
The Call of the Wild
TS Eliot
Caroline Cooney
18. Wrote Shiloh
Lord Byron
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
The Call of the Wild
19. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
William Golding
Mildred Taylor
Leo Tolstoy
Ben Mikaelson
20. Wrote 'We Are Seven -' 'The Prelude -' and 'The World is Too Much With Us;' English Romantic poet; joint publication of 'Lyrical Ballads' with Samuel Taylor Coleridge; motifs: wanders vs wandering - memory - vision/sight - light - leech gatherer; bel
William Wordsworth
William Armstrong
'In Reference to her Children'
Macbeth
21. 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 Catcher in the Rye
The Aeneid
Beowulf
The Picture of Dorian Gray
22. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
Anne Bradstreet
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Walt Whitman
Sylvia Plath
23. 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
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Red Badge of Courage
Ruth Avi
Crime and Punishment
24. Wrote The Outsiders
Helen Keller
Louisa May Alcott
The Picture of Dorian Gray
S.E. Hinton
25. 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
'Self - Reliance'
The Call of the Wild
Kate Chopin
The Catcher in the Rye
26. 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
'In Reference to her Children'
Watership Down
Macbeth
Their Eyes Were Watching God
27. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
Jane Austen
Mark Twain
Little Women
Kate Chopin
28. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Alice Walker
The Aeneid
Paul Zindel
Sharon Creech
29. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Not Without Laughter
Daniel Defoe
Mark Twain
James Joyce
30. Wrote Ethan Frome
S.E. Hinton
Ernest Hemingway
Edith Wharton
Anna Karenina
31. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Amy Tan
The Bell Jar
Jane Eyre
32. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
Scott O'Dell
Kate Dicamillo
To Kill a Mockingbird
Ralph Waldo Emerson
33. An impoverished young woman (Jane) struggles to maintain her autonomy in the face of oppression - prejudice - and love; Gothic novel - bildungsroman - social portest novel
Jane Eyre
Langston Hughes
Geoffrey Chaucer
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
34. Wrote Watership Down
Lord of the Flies
Robert Frost
Richard Adams
The Outsiders
35. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird; American author
Lewis Carroll
Harper Lee
Richard Adams
Ernest Hemingway
36. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
Patricia Maclachlan
Lewis Carroll
Nancy Farmer
Watership Down
37. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
Ruth Avi
Kate Dicamillo
Katherine Patterson
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
38. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
James Joyce
William Shakespeare
Oscar Wilde
Alice Walker
39. Wrote Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Mansfield Park - et al.
Willa Cather
Farenheit 451
Jane Eyre
Jane Austen
40. 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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41. A group of Chinese mothers and their American - born daughters struggle to communicate and understand each other; four families dipicted Woo - Jong - Hsu - and St. Clair
Anne Bradstreet
Carl Hiaason
The Joy Luck Club
1984
42. Wrote Johnny Tremain
Ester Forbes
Sylvia Plath
William Armstrong
Louis Sacher
43. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Amy Tan
Not Without Laughter
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nancy Farmer
44. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
The Joy Luck Club
Robinson Crusoe
Ben Mikaelson
The Outsiders
45. 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
Geoffrey Chaucer
John Keats
The Call of the Wild
Jerry Spinelli
46. Wrote The Great Gatsby
Ester Forbes
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Elie Wiesel
Christopher Marlowe
47. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Charlotte Bronte
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Washington Irving
48. 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
Robinson Crusoe
CS Lewis
Sharon Creech
49. Wrote Wuthering Heights
'In Reference to her Children'
The Giver
Katherine Patterson
Emily Bronte
50. Wrote Maniac Magee
Jerry Spinelli
Mary Downing Hahn
William Shakespeare
Wendy Towle
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