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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
Animal Farm
Sonnet 18
Jane Eyre
Jack London
2. 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
William Wordsworth
Aurora Leigh
Walter Dean Myers
Their Eyes Were Watching God
3. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
John Keats
Caroline Cooney
JRR Tolkein
Helen Keller
4. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Beowulf
Lord Byron
Leo Tolstoy
Herman Melville
5. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
The Outsiders
TS Eliot
Amy Tan
Sylvia Plath
6. 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
Stephen Crane
The Giver
Watership Down
David Copperfield
7. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Ernest Hemingway
Karen Hesse
To Kill a Mockingbird
Maya Angelou
8. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
Robinson Crusoe
Wendy Towle
Sharon Creech
Katherine Patterson
9. 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;
Lord of the Flies
Mary Shelley
The Giver
Christopher Marlowe
10. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
Madeline L'Engle
Crime and Punishment
Lord of the Flies
The Bell Jar
11. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
Frederick Douglass
Ray Bradbury
Jerry Spinelli
SE Hinton
12. 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
Ray Bradbury
Robinson Crusoe
Stephen Crane
Daniel Defoe
13. Wrote Hoot
Carl Hiaason
Caroline Cooney
Henry David Thoreau
John Keats
14. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Harper Lee
The Catcher in the Rye
Mildred Taylor
Ray Bradbury
15. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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16. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Alice In Wonderland
Watership Down
Willa Cather
17. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Robert Cormier
Farenheit 451
Toni Morrison
Christopher Marlowe
18. 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.
Mark Twain
Lord of the Flies
The Aeneid
Virgil
19. Wrote The Aeneid
Virgil
'Civil Disobedience'
Mildred Taylor
The Great Gatsby
20. 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
Stephen Crane
Beloved
Washington Irving
The Pigman
21. Wrote Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton
Robinson Crusoe
Anna Karenina
Mildred Taylor
22. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
The Aeneid
Aurora Leigh
Mildred Taylor
Herman Melville
23. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Paul Zindel
Leo Tolstoy
1984
James Joyce
24. 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
Moby Dick
Lois Lowry
Herman Melville
John Keats
25. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Their Eyes Were Watching God
TS Eliot
Anne Frank
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
26. Wrote Charlotte's Web
Jack London
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Virginia Woolf
EB White
27. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Walter Dean Myers
Christopher Paul Curtis
Charles Dickens
Their Eyes Were Watching God
28. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Macbeth
Edgar Allan Poe
Mary Shelley
29. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
The Pigman
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Katherine Patterson
1984
30. 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
Kate Chopin
Amy Tan
Henry David Thoreau
31. Wrote Sonnet 18 - Hamlet - and Macbeth; greatest playwright who ever lived - prolific poet - known for sonnets
JRR Tolkein
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Percy Bysshe Shelley
William Shakespeare
32. Wrote The Great Gatsby
Alice Walker
Countee Cullen
Kate Chopin
F. Scott Fitzgerald
33. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Mary Shelley
Karen Hesse
Edith Wharton
Lord of the Flies
34. 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
Anna Karenina
William Butler Yeats
Not Without Laughter
Charles Dickens
35. 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
Animal Farm
Edgar Allan Poe
Crime and Punishment
Anna Karenina
36. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
'Civil Disobedience'
The Picture of Dorian Gray
George Orwell
Ralph Waldo Emerson
37. 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
1984
Stephen Crane
Crime and Punishment
Mildred Taylor
38. 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
Kate Dicamillo
The Joy Luck Club
Ruth Avi
Ray Bradbury
39. Wrote Sounder
The Pigman
Walter Dean Myers
George Orwell
William Armstrong
40. Wrote The Outsiders
Christopher Marlowe
Beloved
S.E. Hinton
Madeline L'Engle
41. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
William Wordsworth
Sonnet 18
Willa Cather
Louis Sacher
42. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe
Daniel Defoe
Virginia Woolf
Beloved
Fyodor Dostoevsky
43. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism
Lord Byron
Sonnet 18
Animal Farm
Lois Lowry
44. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
Elizabeth George Speare
Helen Keller
Frederick Douglass
Anne Bradstreet
45. 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
Scott O'Dell
The Giver
1984
Henry David Thoreau
46. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Kate Dicamillo
Helen Keller
Anne Frank
Johann David Wyss
47. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
The Joy Luck Club
Aphra Behn
Oscar Wilde
Crime and Punishment
48. Wrote Out of the Dust
'In Reference to her Children'
Robert Cormier
Karen Hesse
Mildred Taylor
49. 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
Robert Frost
Emily Dickinson
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Sonnet 18
50. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty
Jerry Spinelli
Lord of the Flies
JRR Tolkein
David Copperfield