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Praxis 0041 Secondary Educ
identifying major works & authors
24
English
Graduate
09/19/2008

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Maya Angelou
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i know why the caged bird sings
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Jane Austen
Definition
sense and sensability
pride and prejudice
emma
mansfield park
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Ray Bradbury
Definition
Farenheit 451
the martian chronicles
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Willa Cather
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one of ours
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Stephen Crane
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the red badge of courage
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emily dickinson
Definition
wrote poems mostly about:
flowers and gardens
morbidity
gospel
"the master" (to: sir)
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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poet leader of Transcendentalist movement in the early 19th century
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Definition
(jazz age - 1920s) the great gatsby
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Anne Frank
Definition
the diary of a young girl
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robert frost
Definition
american poet
fire and ice
nothing gold can stay
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Zora Neale Hurston
Definition
Amcn. folklorist - Harlem Renssnce
their eyes were watching God
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john keats
Definition
English romantic poet
a song about myself
sleep and poetry
ode to...
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Harper Lee
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to kill a mockingbird
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C.S. Lewis
Definition
British
medieval literature, Christian apologetics, literary criticism, radio broadcasts, essays on Christianity, and fiction relating to the fight between good and evil
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Herman Melville
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Amcn. novelist / poet
Moby Dick
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George Orwell
Definition
EnglishHis work is marked by a profound consciousness of social injustice, an intense dislike of totalitarianism, and a passion for clarity in language. He wrote works in many different genres including fiction, polemics, journalism, memoir and critical essays, but his most famous works are two novels, Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Amcn. gothic poet / essayist
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J.D. Salinger
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Catcher in the Rye
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William Shespeare
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English poet/playwright
late 1500s
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Percy Shelley
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English Romantic poet
Promethus Unbound
To a Skylark
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J.R.R. Tolkein
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English writer/poet
the hobbit
lord of the rings
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Alice Walker
Definition
amcn. feminist
the color purple
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walt whitman
Definition
amcn. 19th century free-verse poet
leaves of grass (overt sexuality)
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john steinbeck
Definition
east of eden
the pearl
grapes of wrath
of mice and men
red pony
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