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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. 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
Ester Forbes
Katherine Patterson
Little Women
2. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Ernest Hemingway
Elizabeth George Speare
Anne Frank
To Kill a Mockingbird
3. Wrote Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
Mildred Taylor
Helen Keller
Karen Hesse
4. 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
Edith Wharton
Emily Bronte
'Self - Reliance'
Not Without Laughter
5. Wrote Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Elie Wiesel
Christopher Paul Curtis
Patricia Maclachlan
6. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
The Picture of Dorian Gray
'In Reference to her Children'
Ruth Avi
Edith Wharton
7. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
8. 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
William Shakespeare
The Joy Luck Club
Anna Karenina
Toni Morrison
9. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Alice Walker
EB White
Robert Frost
Caroline Cooney
10. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
Lord of the Flies
Zora Neale Hurston
Walt Whitman
Helen Keller
11. 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
The Bell Jar
Virginia Woolf
Henry David Thoreau
Countee Cullen
12. 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
Helen Keller
Louis Sacher
Beowulf
The Great Gatsby
13. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Mildred Taylor
Mildred Taylor
Amy Tan
Lois Lowry
14. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
HG Wells
Willa Cather
Paul Zindel
Ray Bradbury
15. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Lois Lowry
CS Lewis
Paul Zindel
Ruth Avi
16. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
David Copperfield
JD Salinger
Herman Melville
Patricia Maclachlan
17. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
Madeline L'Engle
Willa Cather
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Aurora Leigh
18. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
SE Hinton
Kate Chopin
The Great Gatsby
Edith Wharton
19. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Herman Melville
Maya Angelou
'Self - Reliance'
EB White
20. Wrote Maniac Magee
The Red Badge of Courage
Christopher Marlowe
Jerry Spinelli
Elizabeth George Speare
21. 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
Mary Downing Hahn
1984
John Keats
Sharon Creech
22. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism
Avi
Sharon Creech
Lord Byron
The Giver
23. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
Jack London
Ester Forbes
Moby Dick
David Copperfield
24. Wrote Wuthering Heights
Alice In Wonderland
William Wordsworth
Emily Bronte
Mary Downing Hahn
25. Wrote The Hobbit
JRR Tolkein
Stephen Crane
Leo Tolstoy
Christopher Marlowe
26. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
The Joy Luck Club
Christopher Paul Curtis
Christopher Marlowe
Sharon Creech
27. 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
Mary Downing Hahn
Robert Cormier
Animal Farm
Little Women
28. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
William Wordsworth
'Civil Disobedience'
Christopher Marlowe
Mark Twain
29. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Jean Craighead George
Beloved
The Catcher in the Rye
1984
30. 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
Jerry Spinelli
Mark Twain
Lewis Carroll
Farenheit 451
31. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Christopher Paul Curtis
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Avi
32. Wrote Roll of Thunder
Scott O'Dell
Mildred Taylor
Karen Hesse
Robert Frost
33. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Washington Irving
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Robinson Crusoe
Leo Tolstoy
34. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
William Armstrong
The Outsiders
Lewis Carroll
Karen Hesse
35. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Anna Karenina
Macbeth
Mary Downing Hahn
Helen Keller
36. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Mildred Taylor
Ray Bradbury
The Bell Jar
Little Women
37. Wrote The Lion - the Witch - and the Wardrobe
'Civil Disobedience'
CS Lewis
Gary Paulson
Jack London
38. Wrote The Outsiders
SE Hinton
Emily Bronte
William Butler Yeats
John Keats
39. Wrote The Yearling
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Walter Dean Myers
The Joy Luck Club
Walt Whitman
40. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
Washington Irving
Robinson Crusoe
Anne Bradstreet
Anna Karenina
41. 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
Jane Austen
'In Reference to her Children'
Geoffrey Chaucer
42. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
Louisa May Alcott
Nathaniel Hawthorne
S.E. Hinton
William Golding
43. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
JD Salinger
Macbeth
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Frederick Douglass
44. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
JD Salinger
William Wordsworth
Daniel Defoe
EB White
45. '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
Their Eyes Were Watching God
F. Scott Fitzgerald
CS Lewis
Sonnet 18
46. Wrote Watership Down
Lois Lowry
Oscar Wilde
CS Lewis
Richard Adams
47. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Holes
Louis Sacher
Mildred Taylor
Alice Walker
48. Wrote Hoot
1984
Little Women
'In Reference to her Children'
Carl Hiaason
49. 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
Scott O'Dell
The Joy Luck Club
Macbeth
Willa Cather
50. 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
Langston Hughes
Walt Whitman
Sharon Creech
Anne Bradstreet