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Praxis II Major Authors And Works

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1. Wrote Walk Two Moons






2. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye






3. Wrote Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Mansfield Park - et al.






4. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet






5. 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






6. Wrote The Aeneid






7. Wrote The Pigman






8. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie






9. Wrote Doctor Faustus






10. 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






11. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves






12. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear






13. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors






14. 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






15. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins

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16. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction






17. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker






18. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers






19. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine






20. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond






21. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction






22. 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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23. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist






24. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism






25. Wrote Hatchet






26. Wrote Julie of the Wolves






27. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic






28. 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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29. Wrote 'The Road Not Taken;' American poet; highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech; won Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry four times






30. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine






31. Wrote Sounder






32. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality






33. '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






34. 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






35. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel






36. 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






37. Wrote The Chocolate War






38. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird; American author






39. Wrote Little Women; American novelist






40. Wrote The Voice on the Radio






41. 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






42. Wrote The Outsiders






43. Wrote The Hobbit






44. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave






45. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia






46. Wrote Shiloh






47. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism






48. 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






49. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry






50. 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