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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Louis Sacher
2. Wrote The Pigman
Paul Zindel
Leo Tolstoy
Elizabeth George Speare
EB White
3. Wrote A Farewell to Arms - The Old Man and the Sea - and The Sun Also Rises; American writer and journalist; veteran of WWI - belongs to literary movement called 'The Lost Generation'
Anne Bradstreet
Wendy Towle
Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God
4. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Elizabeth George Speare
Leo Tolstoy
William Butler Yeats
5. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
Sharon Creech
S.E. Hinton
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Pigman
6. Wrote The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Lord of the Flies
Stephen Crane
7. Wrote Watership Down
Little Women
Henry David Thoreau
Mark Twain
Richard Adams
8. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
Louisa May Alcott
Katherine Patterson
Anne Bradstreet
Mildred Taylor
9. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
Mildred Taylor
The Red Badge of Courage
Robinson Crusoe
Frederick Douglass
10. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist
Frankenstein
Robinson Crusoe
Gary Paulson
Henry David Thoreau
11. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Patricia Maclachlan
Helen Keller
Percy Bysshe Shelley
12. 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
Mildred Taylor
Not Without Laughter
The Joy Luck Club
Fyodor Dostoevsky
13. 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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14. Wrote Maniac Magee
Christopher Paul Curtis
Stephen Crane
Lois Lowry
Jerry Spinelli
15. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty
The Bell Jar
Christopher Paul Curtis
Lord of the Flies
Nancy Farmer
16. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
Charles Dickens
Sylvia Plath
Watership Down
Animal Farm
17. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Willa Cather
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Red Badge of Courage
18. Wrote Holes
Scott O'Dell
William Shakespeare
Jane Austen
Louis Sacher
19. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
Patricia Maclachlan
Geoffrey Chaucer
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
JRR Tolkein
20. Wrote Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
Beowulf
Henry David Thoreau
Fyodor Dostoevsky
21. Wrote Out of the Dust
Karen Hesse
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Animal Farm
Little Women
22. A group of poor kids (greasers) hold their own against a group of rich kids (socials aka socs) - losing two of their own in the process; protagonist: Ponyboy Curtis; bildungsroman; setting 1960s
Anne Frank
The Outsiders
Mary Downing Hahn
Frederick Douglass
23. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
Henry David Thoreau
Mildred Taylor
Willa Cather
Emily Bronte
24. 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
Farenheit 451
Animal Farm
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Emily Dickinson
25. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
John Keats
Jack London
Herman Melville
Nancy Farmer
26. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
Frederick Douglass
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Holes
Not Without Laughter
27. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
Alice In Wonderland
Elizabeth George Speare
Crime and Punishment
Anne Bradstreet
28. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
Alice Walker
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Great Gatsby
Katherine Patterson
29. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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30. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Caroline Cooney
The Outsiders
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Frankenstein
31. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Fyodor Dostoevsky
JRR Tolkein
Lord Byron
32. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
Crime and Punishment
Lord of the Flies
Zora Neale Hurston
Ester Forbes
33. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
Kate Chopin
Jean Craighead George
Stephen Crane
George Orwell
34. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism
Watership Down
Katherine Patterson
Lord Byron
The Catcher in the Rye
35. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Aurora Leigh
Langston Hughes
Anna Karenina
Anne Frank
36. 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
Daniel Defoe
Ray Bradbury
Macbeth
Robert Cormier
37. Wrote Charlotte's Web
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Elizabeth George Speare
EB White
JD Salinger
38. 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
Madeline L'Engle
James Joyce
Ester Forbes
The Catcher in the Rye
39. 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
Robert Frost
Toni Morrison
Herman Melville
The Pigman
40. Wrote 'Any Human to Another -' 'Color -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl;' American Romantic poet; leading African - American poets of his time; associated with generation of poets of the Harlem Renaissance
Countee Cullen
Percy Bysshe Shelley
George Orwell
HG Wells
41. 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
TS Eliot
James Joyce
Farenheit 451
Scott O'Dell
42. '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
Ray Bradbury
Avi
Gary Paulson
Sonnet 18
43. 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
HG Wells
Walt Whitman
Crime and Punishment
CS Lewis
44. Wrote Doctor Faustus
'In Reference to her Children'
The Outsiders
Christopher Marlowe
Ralph Waldo Emerson
45. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
Sharon Creech
Kate Chopin
Paul Zindel
Ben Mikaelson
46. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe
'In Reference to her Children'
Daniel Defoe
Lois Lowry
Beloved
47. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
Beloved
To Kill a Mockingbird
David Copperfield
Kate Dicamillo
48. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Jack London
Louis Sacher
Anne Frank
Ralph Waldo Emerson
49. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Wendy Towle
Ralph Waldo Emerson
CS Lewis
Daniel Defoe
50. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Anne Bradstreet
Jean Craighead George
Geoffrey Chaucer
Aphra Behn