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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote Hoot
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Carl Hiaason
Lord Byron
Kate Dicamillo
2. Wrote Wuthering Heights
The Red Badge of Courage
Katherine Patterson
Christopher Marlowe
Emily Bronte
3. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Toni Morrison
TS Eliot
'In Reference to her Children'
Alice Walker
4. 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
'Self - Reliance'
Virginia Woolf
S.E. Hinton
Robinson Crusoe
5. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism
Willa Cather
Kate Chopin
Lord Byron
Robinson Crusoe
6. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
Avi
Madeline L'Engle
Daniel Defoe
Walt Whitman
7. Wrote The Yearling
Walt Whitman
Frederick Douglass
Alice Walker
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
8. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Jerry Spinelli
Helen Keller
William Butler Yeats
9. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
Sandra Cisneros
Amy Tan
Emily Dickinson
William Butler Yeats
10. set in modern times and focuses on the current circumstances of Stanley Yelnats - an unfortunate - unlucky young man who is sent to Camp Green Lake for a crime he didn't commit
Holes
Mary Downing Hahn
Lois Lowry
The Great Gatsby
11. Wrote The Pigman
Edgar Allan Poe
Daniel Defoe
Paul Zindel
Charles Dickens
12. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
HG Wells
Mark Twain
Mary Downing Hahn
The Picture of Dorian Gray
13. Wrote The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mildred Taylor
The Catcher in the Rye
The Giver
14. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Wendy Towle
Johann David Wyss
Alice Walker
William Golding
15. Wrote Watership Down
Mildred Taylor
Edgar Allan Poe
Anna Karenina
Richard Adams
16. 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
Wendy Towle
Moby Dick
Stephen Crane
Leo Tolstoy
17. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
JD Salinger
Avi
Mildred Taylor
Maya Angelou
18. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Richard Adams
Lord of the Flies
Elizabeth George Speare
19. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Mary Downing Hahn
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edith Wharton
Fyodor Dostoevsky
20. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist
Leo Tolstoy
Carl Hiaason
Charlotte Bronte
Henry David Thoreau
21. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Jack London
Holes
Leo Tolstoy
Amy Tan
22. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Stephen Crane
Mildred Taylor
Wendy Towle
Edgar Allan Poe
23. 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
'Civil Disobedience'
Edgar Allan Poe
The Outsiders
Willa Cather
24. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Nancy Farmer
Caroline Cooney
Sonnet 18
25. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
John Keats
Henry David Thoreau
Kate Dicamillo
Animal Farm
26. 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
Scott O'Dell
David Copperfield
Elizabeth George Speare
The Great Gatsby
27. 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
Willa Cather
John Keats
Elie Wiesel
Toni Morrison
28. Wrote Sonnet 18 - Hamlet - and Macbeth; greatest playwright who ever lived - prolific poet - known for sonnets
William Armstrong
The Red Badge of Courage
Sandra Cisneros
William Shakespeare
29. 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
Virgil
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
William Wordsworth
Jane Eyre
30. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
JRR Tolkein
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Oscar Wilde
31. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
Charles Dickens
Willa Cather
Not Without Laughter
Wendy Towle
32. 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
Animal Farm
Robert Frost
Robinson Crusoe
The Bell Jar
33. Wrote Shiloh
Emily Bronte
James Joyce
CS Lewis
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
34. Wrote The Hobbit
EB White
JRR Tolkein
Christopher Paul Curtis
Mildred Taylor
35. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
Zora Neale Hurston
William Golding
Willa Cather
Herman Melville
36. 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
Ernest Hemingway
The Outsiders
Virginia Woolf
The Catcher in the Rye
37. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
Lord of the Flies
SE Hinton
Little Women
Jane Eyre
38. Wrote Night
Elie Wiesel
Katherine Patterson
Ester Forbes
Anna Karenina
39. 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;
Oscar Wilde
TS Eliot
Mary Shelley
The Giver
40. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Charles Dickens
Leo Tolstoy
Geoffrey Chaucer
Farenheit 451
41. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
Alice In Wonderland
Elizabeth George Speare
William Golding
Sylvia Plath
42. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
Ruth Avi
Geoffrey Chaucer
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mildred Taylor
43. Wrote Doctor Faustus
TS Eliot
Ruth Avi
Christopher Marlowe
Mary Shelley
44. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Countee Cullen
Herman Melville
SE Hinton
Edgar Allan Poe
45. 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
Virginia Woolf
Countee Cullen
Not Without Laughter
Emily Dickinson
46. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
William Armstrong
The Red Badge of Courage
Louis Sacher
Charles Dickens
47. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Little Women
HG Wells
Aphra Behn
Washington Irving
48. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
JRR Tolkein
Jack London
The Red Badge of Courage
Ralph Waldo Emerson
49. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird; American author
The Outsiders
David Copperfield
Harper Lee
Holes
50. Wrote The Aeneid
Elie Wiesel
Aurora Leigh
Crime and Punishment
Virgil