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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Aphra Behn
JD Salinger
Alice In Wonderland
2. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Moby Dick
Daniel Defoe
TS Eliot
3. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
Karen Hesse
JD Salinger
CS Lewis
David Copperfield
4. 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
Farenheit 451
Anne Bradstreet
The Catcher in the Rye
The Joy Luck Club
5. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lord of the Flies
The Joy Luck Club
To Kill a Mockingbird
6. Wrote Watership Down
Richard Adams
Langston Hughes
Willa Cather
Anne Bradstreet
7. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jane Austen
Christopher Paul Curtis
Helen Keller
8. Wrote Shiloh
Willa Cather
Little Women
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Jane Eyre
9. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Jean Craighead George
Alice Walker
Gary Paulson
John Keats
10. 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
JD Salinger
Stephen Crane
Edith Wharton
The Picture of Dorian Gray
11. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
William Armstrong
The Joy Luck Club
Walter Dean Myers
Anne Frank
12. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
The Red Badge of Courage
The Aeneid
William Butler Yeats
John Keats
13. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Oscar Wilde
Amy Tan
Jane Austen
'Civil Disobedience'
14. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Patterson
Robert Frost
Countee Cullen
Herman Melville
15. Wrote The Hobbit
JRR Tolkein
Lord Byron
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Charles Dickens
16. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Caroline Cooney
Willa Cather
The Giver
Wendy Towle
17. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
HG Wells
Toni Morrison
Daniel Defoe
The Joy Luck Club
18. 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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19. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Mary Shelley
EB White
HG Wells
Robert Frost
20. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Sharon Creech
The Outsiders
Virginia Woolf
21. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
The Red Badge of Courage
Ester Forbes
Johann David Wyss
Christopher Marlowe
22. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist
The Catcher in the Rye
Henry David Thoreau
Sylvia Plath
Geoffrey Chaucer
23. Wrote Hatchet
To Kill a Mockingbird
Scott O'Dell
Herman Melville
Gary Paulson
24. Wrote Sonnet 18 - Hamlet - and Macbeth; greatest playwright who ever lived - prolific poet - known for sonnets
The Outsiders
Frankenstein
William Shakespeare
Karen Hesse
25. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Aphra Behn
Frederick Douglass
Lois Lowry
Kate Dicamillo
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
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Watership Down
SE Hinton
David Copperfield
27. Wrote Roll of Thunder
The Joy Luck Club
Mildred Taylor
JD Salinger
David Copperfield
28. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
Macbeth
Lewis Carroll
Louis Sacher
Alice In Wonderland
29. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
The Call of the Wild
The Aeneid
Washington Irving
Maya Angelou
30. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Anne Frank
S.E. Hinton
Alice Walker
Percy Bysshe Shelley
31. Wrote The Pigman
Beloved
Caroline Cooney
Paul Zindel
Helen Keller
32. 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
Anne Bradstreet
David Copperfield
Toni Morrison
33. 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
Anne Bradstreet
Watership Down
Crime and Punishment
Jerry Spinelli
34. Wrote The Yearling
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Gary Paulson
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mildred Taylor
35. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Paul Zindel
Mildred Taylor
'Civil Disobedience'
Avi
36. Wrote The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros
Jerry Spinelli
Caroline Cooney
Sylvia Plath
37. Wrote Jane Eyre
Jane Austen
Charlotte Bronte
William Shakespeare
JRR Tolkein
38. 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
Daniel Defoe
Louis Sacher
William Armstrong
39. 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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40. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
Aurora Leigh
Frankenstein
James Joyce
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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
Jerry Spinelli
Jane Austen
Edgar Allan Poe
The Joy Luck Club
42. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Kate Chopin
Johann David Wyss
1984
William Butler Yeats
43. 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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44. Wrote The Glory Field
William Butler Yeats
Walter Dean Myers
The Bell Jar
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
45. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zora Neale Hurston
William Butler Yeats
Sharon Creech
46. '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
Sonnet 18
Kate Dicamillo
The Red Badge of Courage
Louisa May Alcott
47. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
Nathaniel Hawthorne
'Self - Reliance'
William Golding
Patricia Maclachlan
48. Wrote Ethan Frome
Christopher Paul Curtis
Oscar Wilde
William Wordsworth
Edith Wharton
49. Wrote Out of the Dust
Jean Craighead George
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Christopher Marlowe
Karen Hesse
50. 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
Washington Irving
Nancy Farmer
William Armstrong
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