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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. 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
CS Lewis
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Mildred Taylor
2. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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3. Wrote Hatchet
Gary Paulson
Beloved
The Catcher in the Rye
William Wordsworth
4. 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 Giver
Jack London
JD Salinger
5. 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
Daniel Defoe
Emily Dickinson
Washington Irving
6. 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
TS Eliot
'In Reference to her Children'
Walt Whitman
Langston Hughes
7. Wrote Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Mansfield Park - et al.
Jane Austen
EB White
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
The Joy Luck Club
8. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
Alice In Wonderland
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Ruth Avi
Louisa May Alcott
9. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
Kate Dicamillo
JD Salinger
Lewis Carroll
Alice Walker
10. 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
Lord of the Flies
Lewis Carroll
Macbeth
Animal Farm
11. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Washington Irving
Herman Melville
Ray Bradbury
Anna Karenina
12. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
Jack London
Ben Mikaelson
The Aeneid
Jean Craighead George
13. Wrote The Chocolate War
William Armstrong
Robert Cormier
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
William Shakespeare
14. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
Carl Hiaason
Virgil
Washington Irving
The Great Gatsby
15. 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
Christopher Marlowe
Little Women
Jerry Spinelli
The Call of the Wild
16. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
Avi
Moby Dick
'Civil Disobedience'
Jack London
17. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
1984
Aurora Leigh
Madeline L'Engle
Emily Bronte
18. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Little Women
Toni Morrison
Lord Byron
Mildred Taylor
19. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
'Self - Reliance'
Paul Zindel
Geoffrey Chaucer
Mildred Taylor
20. 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
'Self - Reliance'
Watership Down
Emily Dickinson
Countee Cullen
21. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty
The Outsiders
Beowulf
Lord of the Flies
Carl Hiaason
22. 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
Henry David Thoreau
Zora Neale Hurston
Harper Lee
23. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist
Lewis Carroll
William Golding
Scott O'Dell
Henry David Thoreau
24. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Scott O'Dell
Anne Frank
Leo Tolstoy
Fyodor Dostoevsky
25. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Wendy Towle
Jean Craighead George
David Copperfield
Anne Frank
26. 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
Christopher Paul Curtis
Sharon Creech
Elizabeth George Speare
Watership Down
27. 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
William Shakespeare
Little Women
Caroline Cooney
Crime and Punishment
28. Wrote Wuthering Heights
Frankenstein
Anne Bradstreet
Edith Wharton
Emily Bronte
29. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Emily Bronte
Elie Wiesel
Oscar Wilde
Caroline Cooney
30. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
Robinson Crusoe
Nancy Farmer
Zora Neale Hurston
Herman Melville
31. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
Oscar Wilde
Aurora Leigh
Jerry Spinelli
William Golding
32. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker
Washington Irving
Ralph Waldo Emerson
TS Eliot
Lord Byron
33. 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
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1984
Willa Cather
Their Eyes Were Watching God
34. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Patterson
William Butler Yeats
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Ruth Avi
35. 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
Avi
Jane Austen
Jane Eyre
Holes
36. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
Kate Dicamillo
Scott O'Dell
Kate Chopin
Mark Twain
37. Wrote Charlotte's Web
CS Lewis
Robert Cormier
EB White
JD Salinger
38. 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
Beowulf
Christopher Paul Curtis
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Moby Dick
39. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
Harper Lee
Anne Bradstreet
Alice Walker
To Kill a Mockingbird
40. 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
The Aeneid
Harper Lee
Walt Whitman
Beowulf
41. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Aphra Behn
Richard Adams
Herman Melville
42. Wrote The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros
Walter Dean Myers
Robinson Crusoe
Little Women
43. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
Ester Forbes
Zora Neale Hurston
Langston Hughes
James Joyce
44. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
Patricia Maclachlan
The Great Gatsby
Washington Irving
Geoffrey Chaucer
45. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
William Armstrong
Anne Bradstreet
The Pigman
Virgil
46. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Jean Craighead George
HG Wells
Emily Dickinson
William Wordsworth
47. Wrote Roll of Thunder
'Civil Disobedience'
Robert Frost
Mildred Taylor
Willa Cather
48. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
Helen Keller
Lewis Carroll
Ernest Hemingway
Alice Walker
49. Wrote Sounder
Elie Wiesel
Little Women
Farenheit 451
William Armstrong
50. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Virgil
Mark Twain
EB White
Fyodor Dostoevsky