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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote The Awakening - The Storm; feminist author of the 20th century; born in St. Louis - Missouri
Henry David Thoreau
Alice Walker
Kate Chopin
Maya Angelou
2. 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
Karen Hesse
Lord Byron
Moby Dick
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
3. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Jack London
Kate Chopin
The Great Gatsby
Oscar Wilde
4. Wrote The Outsiders
Jerry Spinelli
Charles Dickens
Anne Frank
SE Hinton
5. 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
Jack London
Langston Hughes
Frederick Douglass
JD Salinger
6. 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
Beowulf
Robinson Crusoe
Toni Morrison
7. Wrote Charlotte's Web
Lewis Carroll
Mary Shelley
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
EB White
8. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
Gary Paulson
Little Women
Alice Walker
Ben Mikaelson
9. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
Christopher Paul Curtis
Frederick Douglass
'Civil Disobedience'
George Orwell
10. An impoverished young woman (Jane) struggles to maintain her autonomy in the face of oppression - prejudice - and love; Gothic novel - bildungsroman - social portest novel
Ester Forbes
Jane Eyre
Sylvia Plath
The Catcher in the Rye
11. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
Wendy Towle
Sylvia Plath
Jerry Spinelli
CS Lewis
12. Wrote Johnny Tremain
HG Wells
Kate Dicamillo
Ester Forbes
Lewis Carroll
13. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
Scott O'Dell
EB White
To Kill a Mockingbird
Wendy Towle
14. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
Harper Lee
Avi
Frederick Douglass
Jane Austen
15. Wrote Mrs. Dalloway - Night and Day - The Voyage Out - and Jacob's Room; English novelist and essayist; one of the foremost modernist literary figures of 20th century
Leo Tolstoy
Virginia Woolf
Beowulf
Emily Dickinson
16. 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
EB White
Robert Frost
William Armstrong
Daniel Defoe
17. Wrote The House on Mango Street
Oscar Wilde
Watership Down
Louis Sacher
Sandra Cisneros
18. '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
Carl Hiaason
The Joy Luck Club
Toni Morrison
Sonnet 18
19. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
William Wordsworth
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Alice Walker
Countee Cullen
20. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Mary Downing Hahn
Herman Melville
SE Hinton
Ray Bradbury
21. Wrote The Chocolate War
Robert Cormier
Willa Cather
Alice In Wonderland
George Orwell
22. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
SE Hinton
Mildred Taylor
1984
Macbeth
23. Wrote The Glory Field
Moby Dick
Walter Dean Myers
Geoffrey Chaucer
William Butler Yeats
24. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
TS Eliot
Harper Lee
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Nathaniel Hawthorne
25. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird; American author
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Harper Lee
George Orwell
Alice In Wonderland
26. Wrote Roll of Thunder
JRR Tolkein
Karen Hesse
Mildred Taylor
Sylvia Plath
27. 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
Stephen Crane
Lord of the Flies
Christopher Marlowe
Beloved
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 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Leo Tolstoy
Jean Craighead George
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
30. 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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31. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe
Jean Craighead George
George Orwell
Beloved
Henry David Thoreau
32. Wrote Ethan Frome
EB White
Ruth Avi
Edith Wharton
Anna Karenina
33. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
'In Reference to her Children'
Crime and Punishment
Toni Morrison
The Red Badge of Courage
34. 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
The Outsiders
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Animal Farm
'Civil Disobedience'
35. 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
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
JRR Tolkein
Lord of the Flies
36. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Anna Karenina
Robert Frost
Caroline Cooney
37. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
Jean Craighead George
Walt Whitman
The Red Badge of Courage
Ben Mikaelson
38. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
Scott O'Dell
Mildred Taylor
The Giver
Walt Whitman
39. Wrote Hoot
The Aeneid
Carl Hiaason
Holes
The Great Gatsby
40. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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41. Wrote The Pigman
Nancy Farmer
Paul Zindel
Kate Dicamillo
Mary Shelley
42. Wrote Jane Eyre
Walter Dean Myers
The Outsiders
The Bell Jar
Charlotte Bronte
43. Wrote Sonnet 18 - Hamlet - and Macbeth; greatest playwright who ever lived - prolific poet - known for sonnets
Langston Hughes
The Outsiders
Herman Melville
William Shakespeare
44. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Robinson Crusoe
Christopher Paul Curtis
Beowulf
SE Hinton
45. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
Paul Zindel
Christopher Marlowe
George Orwell
The Bell Jar
46. 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
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lord of the Flies
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Frederick Douglass
47. Wrote Night
Madeline L'Engle
Scott O'Dell
Louis Sacher
Elie Wiesel
48. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
Emily Dickinson
Johann David Wyss
The Red Badge of Courage
Nancy Farmer
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
Anna Karenina
Maya Angelou
Farenheit 451
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
50. Wrote Watership Down
Mark Twain
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Richard Adams
Jack London
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