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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Sylvia Plath
Elie Wiesel
Geoffrey Chaucer
Anna Karenina
2. Wrote Charlotte's Web
Paul Zindel
Ruth Avi
EB White
James Joyce
3. Wrote The Aeneid
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Virgil
Toni Morrison
1984
4. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
Jerry Spinelli
TS Eliot
William Butler Yeats
Richard Adams
5. Wrote The Great Gatsby
Caroline Cooney
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Karen Hesse
Animal Farm
6. 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
The Catcher in the Rye
Lord Byron
Percy Bysshe Shelley
William Wordsworth
7. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Gary Paulson
SE Hinton
The Catcher in the Rye
Alice Walker
8. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Lois Lowry
Watership Down
Beloved
Leo Tolstoy
9. 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
Richard Adams
Ernest Hemingway
The Joy Luck Club
10. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
Gary Paulson
Ray Bradbury
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Little Women
11. Wrote Sonnet 18 - Hamlet - and Macbeth; greatest playwright who ever lived - prolific poet - known for sonnets
Oscar Wilde
Helen Keller
William Shakespeare
Little Women
12. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Kate Dicamillo
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Robert Frost
Kate Chopin
13. 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
Maya Angelou
1984
Avi
Toni Morrison
14. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Joy Luck Club
Kate Chopin
The Picture of Dorian Gray
15. Wrote Shiloh
Moby Dick
Walter Dean Myers
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Johann David Wyss
16. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
CS Lewis
Avi
JD Salinger
Stephen Crane
17. Wrote Out of the Dust
Karen Hesse
Kate Dicamillo
The Aeneid
William Wordsworth
18. 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
Karen Hesse
Virgil
Robert Cormier
Beowulf
19. Wrote Maniac Magee
Richard Adams
Charlotte Bronte
Jerry Spinelli
Aphra Behn
20. Wrote Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
Lord of the Flies
Patricia Maclachlan
Paul Zindel
21. 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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22. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Jane Austen
Carl Hiaason
Ruth Avi
Lord of the Flies
23. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty
Lord of the Flies
Edith Wharton
Charlotte Bronte
Ernest Hemingway
24. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
Countee Cullen
Emily Bronte
Mildred Taylor
James Joyce
25. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
Louis Sacher
Sylvia Plath
Elie Wiesel
Elizabeth George Speare
26. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Virginia Woolf
Johann David Wyss
Beowulf
Mary Downing Hahn
27. 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
TS Eliot
Frankenstein
The Joy Luck Club
28. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Jean Craighead George
The Great Gatsby
SE Hinton
Zora Neale Hurston
29. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
Mildred Taylor
Alice In Wonderland
Caroline Cooney
Daniel Defoe
30. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
James Joyce
Johann David Wyss
Watership Down
Nathaniel Hawthorne
31. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Patricia Maclachlan
Geoffrey Chaucer
Their Eyes Were Watching God
32. Wrote The Hobbit
Macbeth
JRR Tolkein
Sonnet 18
Toni Morrison
33. Wrote The House on Mango Street
Daniel Defoe
Sandra Cisneros
The Great Gatsby
Watership Down
34. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
The Bell Jar
Henry David Thoreau
Watership Down
Richard Adams
35. 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
Lewis Carroll
Anne Bradstreet
The Pigman
'Civil Disobedience'
36. Wrote The Pigman
Little Women
Paul Zindel
Beloved
Kate Dicamillo
37. 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
Watership Down
Willa Cather
Edgar Allan Poe
Little Women
38. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
Elizabeth George Speare
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Mark Twain
Lord Byron
39. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
Sonnet 18
Washington Irving
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Ray Bradbury
40. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Jack London
Mildred Taylor
Mark Twain
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
41. 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
Virgil
Jane Eyre
Lewis Carroll
42. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
The Aeneid
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Emily Bronte
Countee Cullen
43. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
Animal Farm
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Zora Neale Hurston
JD Salinger
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. 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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46. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Jack London
Lord of the Flies
Daniel Defoe
Emily Bronte
47. 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
Jean Craighead George
Animal Farm
Washington Irving
Nancy Farmer
48. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
HG Wells
Amy Tan
Anna Karenina
The Great Gatsby
49. 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
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Oscar Wilde
Helen Keller
The Giver
50. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Jack London
Farenheit 451
Mary Shelley
Alice Walker