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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote Doctor Faustus
Christopher Paul Curtis
Christopher Marlowe
SE Hinton
Richard Adams
2. 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
John Keats
Stephen Crane
Frederick Douglass
Toni Morrison
3. Wrote The Aeneid
Lord Byron
Virgil
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Langston Hughes
4. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
Maya Angelou
Robert Frost
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Jerry Spinelli
5. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Aurora Leigh
Crime and Punishment
Alice In Wonderland
6. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist
The Pigman
Henry David Thoreau
Nancy Farmer
Aurora Leigh
7. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
Anna Karenina
S.E. Hinton
Jerry Spinelli
William Golding
8. A pampered dog (Buck) adjusts to the harsh realities of life in the North as he struggles with his recovered wild instincts and finds a master (John Thorton) who treats him right; novel - adventure story - setting late 1890s
The Outsiders
Kate Chopin
Richard Adams
The Call of the Wild
9. 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
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Paul Zindel
Beloved
10. 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
David Copperfield
Robinson Crusoe
Caroline Cooney
Animal Farm
11. Wrote The Weary Blues - The Ways of White Folks - and Not Without Laughter; American poet - novelist - playwright - short story writer - and columnist; early innovator for literary art known as jazz poetry; best known for work during Harlem Renaissan
Washington Irving
Langston Hughes
Elizabeth George Speare
Percy Bysshe Shelley
12. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
TS Eliot
Lord of the Flies
Ray Bradbury
'Civil Disobedience'
13. 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
Moby Dick
Amy Tan
Wendy Towle
Countee Cullen
14. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Walter Dean Myers
Christopher Paul Curtis
Lord of the Flies
Carl Hiaason
15. 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
William Golding
The Joy Luck Club
Charles Dickens
16. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
Christopher Paul Curtis
EB White
To Kill a Mockingbird
Leo Tolstoy
17. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Robinson Crusoe
HG Wells
'Self - Reliance'
18. Wrote The Awakening - The Storm; feminist author of the 20th century; born in St. Louis - Missouri
S.E. Hinton
Kate Chopin
Zora Neale Hurston
Aurora Leigh
19. Wrote Maniac Magee
Sonnet 18
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Harper Lee
Jerry Spinelli
20. Wrote The Pigman
Animal Farm
Paul Zindel
Lord Byron
Ester Forbes
21. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Henry David Thoreau
Herman Melville
Moby Dick
To Kill a Mockingbird
22. 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.
The Aeneid
Mildred Taylor
Moby Dick
The Great Gatsby
23. Wrote The Yearling
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Langston Hughes
William Shakespeare
The Call of the Wild
24. 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
Harper Lee
Karen Hesse
Ester Forbes
The Catcher in the Rye
25. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe
Beloved
Mary Downing Hahn
Johann David Wyss
Caroline Cooney
26. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mildred Taylor
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Joy Luck Club
27. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Watership Down
Nancy Farmer
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Pigman
28. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
Aurora Leigh
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Edith Wharton
The Great Gatsby
29. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Anna Karenina
Patricia Maclachlan
Sharon Creech
Kate Chopin
30. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism
Sonnet 18
Emily Bronte
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Lord Byron
31. 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
John Keats
SE Hinton
Patricia Maclachlan
The Giver
32. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
Alice In Wonderland
Nancy Farmer
Ruth Avi
William Butler Yeats
33. Wrote Charlotte's Web
Macbeth
'In Reference to her Children'
Crime and Punishment
EB White
34. 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
George Orwell
Robinson Crusoe
Wendy Towle
Anne Bradstreet
35. Wrote The Lion - the Witch - and the Wardrobe
CS Lewis
Caroline Cooney
Charles Dickens
Johann David Wyss
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
Nancy Farmer
Watership Down
Sandra Cisneros
Nathaniel Hawthorne
37. 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
Robinson Crusoe
William Armstrong
Jack London
Crime and Punishment
38. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Langston Hughes
Nancy Farmer
Emily Bronte
39. Wrote Jane Eyre
Washington Irving
Watership Down
Charlotte Bronte
Holes
40. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
JD Salinger
EB White
Frankenstein
Virginia Woolf
41. Wrote The Great Gatsby
William Shakespeare
HG Wells
Farenheit 451
F. Scott Fitzgerald
42. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
Avi
Virgil
Anne Bradstreet
The Joy Luck Club
43. 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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44. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Alice Walker
Nancy Farmer
Ruth Avi
The Picture of Dorian Gray
45. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Little Women
CS Lewis
Carl Hiaason
46. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
Watership Down
Lord Byron
Elizabeth George Speare
Holes
47. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
Mildred Taylor
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jane Austen
The Call of the Wild
48. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
Willa Cather
John Keats
The Red Badge of Courage
Alice In Wonderland
49. 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
Louis Sacher
'Self - Reliance'
Farenheit 451
Ruth Avi
50. 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
Langston Hughes
Macbeth
1984
Ruth Avi