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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
Lord Byron
HG Wells
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
2. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
Zora Neale Hurston
Elizabeth George Speare
Sharon Creech
TS Eliot
3. Wrote Wuthering Heights
Gary Paulson
Countee Cullen
Edith Wharton
Emily Bronte
4. Wrote Sonnet 18 - Hamlet - and Macbeth; greatest playwright who ever lived - prolific poet - known for sonnets
Kate Chopin
The Giver
Ben Mikaelson
William Shakespeare
5. Wrote Ethan Frome
Beowulf
'Self - Reliance'
SE Hinton
Edith Wharton
6. 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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7. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
JRR Tolkein
Elizabeth George Speare
Ralph Waldo Emerson
James Joyce
8. Wrote The Fall of the House of Usher - The Murders in the Rue Morgue - and The Raven; wrote poems: 'To Science -' 'The City and the Sea -' and 'Silence;' American writer - poet - editor and literary critic; part of American Romantic Movement
Ruth Avi
The Call of the Wild
Edgar Allan Poe
Mildred Taylor
9. 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
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mary Downing Hahn
Frankenstein
David Copperfield
10. Wrote The House on Mango Street
Mary Downing Hahn
Madeline L'Engle
Sandra Cisneros
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
11. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
Jerry Spinelli
William Golding
James Joyce
1984
12. 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;
Jane Eyre
Anne Bradstreet
The Giver
Ben Mikaelson
13. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
Nancy Farmer
Aurora Leigh
Farenheit 451
Beloved
14. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
Wendy Towle
Frederick Douglass
Helen Keller
Avi
15. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Scott O'Dell
Ester Forbes
Mary Downing Hahn
Aphra Behn
16. 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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17. Wrote Roll of Thunder
Lord Byron
Mildred Taylor
Maya Angelou
'In Reference to her Children'
18. Wrote The Yearling
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Oscar Wilde
Kate Dicamillo
Karen Hesse
19. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
Carl Hiaason
The Aeneid
Jane Eyre
Nathaniel Hawthorne
20. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
Anne Bradstreet
S.E. Hinton
Lord Byron
Kate Chopin
21. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Scott O'Dell
Mary Downing Hahn
Geoffrey Chaucer
Madeline L'Engle
22. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Jane Eyre
Madeline L'Engle
Johann David Wyss
Mark Twain
23. 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
'Civil Disobedience'
CS Lewis
Robert Frost
Robinson Crusoe
24. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
Richard Adams
Sonnet 18
Patricia Maclachlan
Sylvia Plath
25. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Ray Bradbury
Louis Sacher
Sharon Creech
Anne Frank
26. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Sylvia Plath
Mark Twain
George Orwell
Sandra Cisneros
27. 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
Jack London
Avi
The Pigman
28. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Countee Cullen
Oscar Wilde
Jane Austen
Kate Chopin
29. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Crime and Punishment
Langston Hughes
Kate Dicamillo
Herman Melville
30. Wrote The Chocolate War
Robert Cormier
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Louisa May Alcott
Jane Eyre
31. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
Frederick Douglass
Herman Melville
Little Women
The Outsiders
32. Wrote Jane Eyre
Geoffrey Chaucer
Zora Neale Hurston
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
33. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Anne Frank
William Armstrong
Mildred Taylor
Percy Bysshe Shelley
34. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird; American author
Sharon Creech
Harper Lee
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Zora Neale Hurston
35. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
Alice In Wonderland
Emily Dickinson
Langston Hughes
The Aeneid
36. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Geoffrey Chaucer
Zora Neale Hurston
Daniel Defoe
Avi
37. Wrote The Great Gatsby
The Red Badge of Courage
Alice In Wonderland
Their Eyes Were Watching God
F. Scott Fitzgerald
38. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Macbeth
Walt Whitman
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
39. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
Washington Irving
CS Lewis
Macbeth
Mildred Taylor
40. 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
Watership Down
George Orwell
Mary Shelley
Toni Morrison
41. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
Virgil
Geoffrey Chaucer
Katherine Patterson
Mary Downing Hahn
42. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Animal Farm
The Great Gatsby
Louisa May Alcott
43. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
Alice In Wonderland
S.E. Hinton
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Kate Dicamillo
44. Wrote The Hobbit
Virgil
Farenheit 451
JRR Tolkein
John Keats
45. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
Emily Dickinson
Charlotte Bronte
Mildred Taylor
JRR Tolkein
46. Wrote The Awakening - The Storm; feminist author of the 20th century; born in St. Louis - Missouri
JD Salinger
Edgar Allan Poe
Wendy Towle
Kate Chopin
47. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
The Aeneid
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Stephen Crane
The Call of the Wild
48. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
SE Hinton
David Copperfield
'In Reference to her Children'
Toni Morrison
49. Wrote The Lion - the Witch - and the Wardrobe
Edgar Allan Poe
Their Eyes Were Watching God
CS Lewis
'In Reference to her Children'
50. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe
Macbeth
Alice In Wonderland
Beloved
Virgil
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