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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote The Aeneid
Animal Farm
Crime and Punishment
Nancy Farmer
Virgil
2. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Washington Irving
The Aeneid
Oscar Wilde
Madeline L'Engle
3. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Animal Farm
Ester Forbes
Caroline Cooney
Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. 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
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Joy Luck Club
Countee Cullen
Little Women
5. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
Wendy Towle
Sharon Creech
Lord of the Flies
William Butler Yeats
6. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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7. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Great Gatsby
Louisa May Alcott
Herman Melville
8. Wrote Doctor Faustus
Carl Hiaason
Beloved
Christopher Marlowe
Not Without Laughter
9. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Ray Bradbury
Edith Wharton
Walter Dean Myers
Jane Eyre
10. Wrote Night
Animal Farm
Elie Wiesel
David Copperfield
S.E. Hinton
11. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
Charles Dickens
Patricia Maclachlan
Aurora Leigh
Elie Wiesel
12. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
HG Wells
Carl Hiaason
Leo Tolstoy
'Civil Disobedience'
13. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
Sylvia Plath
Lois Lowry
Johann David Wyss
Oscar Wilde
14. It is set in a future society which is at first presented as a utopian society and gradually appears more and more dystopian; therefore - it could be considered anti - utopian; the novel follows a boy named Jonas through the twelfth year of his life;
Stephen Crane
Ernest Hemingway
Leo Tolstoy
The Giver
15. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Ruth Avi
The Call of the Wild
Lois Lowry
Ray Bradbury
16. 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
Sylvia Plath
Wendy Towle
Sandra Cisneros
Watership Down
17. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Alice Walker
Ralph Waldo Emerson
JD Salinger
Animal Farm
18. Wrote Maniac Magee
Wendy Towle
Jerry Spinelli
Walter Dean Myers
Alice Walker
19. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
The Call of the Wild
The Joy Luck Club
Avi
Leo Tolstoy
20. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Katherine Patterson
Wendy Towle
Ernest Hemingway
21. Wrote The Outsiders
1984
JD Salinger
Their Eyes Were Watching God
S.E. Hinton
22. Wrote 'We Are Seven -' 'The Prelude -' and 'The World is Too Much With Us;' English Romantic poet; joint publication of 'Lyrical Ballads' with Samuel Taylor Coleridge; motifs: wanders vs wandering - memory - vision/sight - light - leech gatherer; bel
William Wordsworth
Sonnet 18
Patricia Maclachlan
Geoffrey Chaucer
23. Wrote Hatchet
Gary Paulson
JRR Tolkein
Carl Hiaason
Ray Bradbury
24. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
Kate Chopin
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Johann David Wyss
To Kill a Mockingbird
25. 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
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Scott O'Dell
The Red Badge of Courage
26. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Kate Dicamillo
Jane Austen
The Red Badge of Courage
Sharon Creech
27. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
Wendy Towle
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Outsiders
William Armstrong
28. Wrote Hoot
Ruth Avi
Farenheit 451
Carl Hiaason
Scott O'Dell
29. Wrote Little Women; American novelist
The Great Gatsby
Alice Walker
Louisa May Alcott
Katherine Patterson
30. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
Leo Tolstoy
The Red Badge of Courage
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Zora Neale Hurston
31. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
William Golding
To Kill a Mockingbird
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Alice Walker
32. After surviving a poverty - stricken childhood - the death of his mother - a cruel stepfather - and an unfortunate first marriage - a boys finds success as a writer; themes: plight of the weak - importance of equality in marriage - dangers of wealth
The Great Gatsby
Countee Cullen
David Copperfield
Watership Down
33. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
SE Hinton
Jack London
Ray Bradbury
Lord Byron
34. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Countee Cullen
Little Women
The Catcher in the Rye
Toni Morrison
35. Wrote Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
Leo Tolstoy
Lord of the Flies
Geoffrey Chaucer
36. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
JRR Tolkein
Not Without Laughter
Kate Dicamillo
Lord Byron
37. Wrote The Pigman
Paul Zindel
1984
Geoffrey Chaucer
Robinson Crusoe
38. 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.
Madeline L'Engle
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Anne Bradstreet
The Aeneid
39. 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
Frederick Douglass
The Call of the Wild
JRR Tolkein
The Outsiders
40. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
George Orwell
Paul Zindel
Herman Melville
Not Without Laughter
41. Wrote The Glory Field
Macbeth
The Catcher in the Rye
Lois Lowry
Walter Dean Myers
42. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
James Joyce
Beowulf
The Picture of Dorian Gray
William Golding
43. Told in chapters alternating from Lorraine's and John's point of view - opens with an 'Oath -' signed by both John and Lorraine - two high school sophomores - in which they swear to tell only the facts - in this 'memorial epic' about their experience
The Pigman
Virgil
Aurora Leigh
The Picture of Dorian Gray
44. 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
Anne Frank
Louisa May Alcott
Lord of the Flies
The Catcher in the Rye
45. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
Elizabeth George Speare
Mildred Taylor
Daniel Defoe
Percy Bysshe Shelley
46. Wrote Sonnet 18 - Hamlet - and Macbeth; greatest playwright who ever lived - prolific poet - known for sonnets
William Shakespeare
Scott O'Dell
Robinson Crusoe
Langston Hughes
47. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
Kate Chopin
Little Women
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Beloved
48. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
William Armstrong
Edgar Allan Poe
The Great Gatsby
Helen Keller
49. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Aphra Behn
Emily Bronte
Carl Hiaason
Amy Tan
50. Wrote The Outsiders
Christopher Marlowe
Kate Chopin
SE Hinton
EB White