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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Ruth Avi
S.E. Hinton
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Moby Dick
2. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Nathaniel Hawthorne
David Copperfield
Christopher Paul Curtis
The Great Gatsby
3. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker
Walter Dean Myers
Ralph Waldo Emerson
JD Salinger
F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. Wrote The Great Gatsby
JD Salinger
Stephen Crane
Washington Irving
F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
Frederick Douglass
William Wordsworth
Patricia Maclachlan
Gary Paulson
6. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
Ben Mikaelson
Maya Angelou
The Outsiders
Christopher Paul Curtis
7. 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
Mildred Taylor
Stephen Crane
Beowulf
Edgar Allan Poe
8. 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
Robert Frost
Avi
Ruth Avi
The Joy Luck Club
9. Wrote Shiloh
Charlotte Bronte
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Wendy Towle
Christopher Paul Curtis
10. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Paul Zindel
Walter Dean Myers
Avi
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
11. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
The Bell Jar
Stephen Crane
The Outsiders
TS Eliot
12. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
HG Wells
Robinson Crusoe
Beloved
'Civil Disobedience'
13. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Sandra Cisneros
Richard Adams
Jean Craighead George
Maya Angelou
14. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
Beowulf
Langston Hughes
EB White
Jack London
15. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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16. Wrote The Awakening - The Storm; feminist author of the 20th century; born in St. Louis - Missouri
Emily Bronte
Ernest Hemingway
Jane Eyre
Kate Chopin
17. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
Mary Downing Hahn
TS Eliot
Elizabeth George Speare
George Orwell
18. Wrote Out of the Dust
Karen Hesse
Avi
Jean Craighead George
Mark Twain
19. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism
SE Hinton
Lord Byron
HG Wells
Virginia Woolf
20. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
The Giver
Patricia Maclachlan
Daniel Defoe
Beowulf
21. Wrote Ethan Frome
The Aeneid
Jean Craighead George
Edith Wharton
Virginia Woolf
22. 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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23. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Christopher Marlowe
Ray Bradbury
Edgar Allan Poe
Mark Twain
24. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
Lois Lowry
Geoffrey Chaucer
Frederick Douglass
Patricia Maclachlan
25. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
William Armstrong
William Golding
The Great Gatsby
Mary Downing Hahn
26. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
HG Wells
William Butler Yeats
Charles Dickens
Walt Whitman
27. 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
Virginia Woolf
Jean Craighead George
'In Reference to her Children'
Edgar Allan Poe
28. Wrote Holes
To Kill a Mockingbird
Louis Sacher
Amy Tan
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
29. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sharon Creech
HG Wells
David Copperfield
30. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist
Geoffrey Chaucer
Mildred Taylor
Henry David Thoreau
John Keats
31. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
Anne Frank
Walt Whitman
Aurora Leigh
Jerry Spinelli
32. Wrote The Outsiders
Paul Zindel
SE Hinton
EB White
The Great Gatsby
33. Wrote The Hobbit
Langston Hughes
Lord Byron
Paul Zindel
JRR Tolkein
34. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
Beowulf
Virginia Woolf
The Red Badge of Courage
Mary Shelley
35. 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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36. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
Richard Adams
Aurora Leigh
Charlotte Bronte
Lord of the Flies
37. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
The Great Gatsby
Helen Keller
The Outsiders
Jane Eyre
38. Wrote Wuthering Heights
William Butler Yeats
Washington Irving
Kate Chopin
Emily Bronte
39. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
The Joy Luck Club
Langston Hughes
Nancy Farmer
Little Women
40. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Mildred Taylor
To Kill a Mockingbird
Anne Frank
The Great Gatsby
41. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Christopher Marlowe
Karen Hesse
Johann David Wyss
The Joy Luck Club
42. Wrote The House on Mango Street
Beloved
Sandra Cisneros
Toni Morrison
William Shakespeare
43. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Zora Neale Hurston
Avi
Christopher Paul Curtis
Carl Hiaason
44. NOT anti - society or anti - community; presupposes that the mind is initially the subject to an unhappy conformity; calls on individuals to value their own thoughts - opinions - experiences above those presented to them by other individuals - societ
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45. 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
Lord of the Flies
Harper Lee
Robinson Crusoe
Ralph Waldo Emerson
46. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Lewis Carroll
Leo Tolstoy
William Butler Yeats
Henry David Thoreau
47. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Henry David Thoreau
Aphra Behn
Caroline Cooney
Walt Whitman
48. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Animal Farm
Anna Karenina
Sylvia Plath
Maya Angelou
49. 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
Lord Byron
Anne Frank
JRR Tolkein
Holes
50. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Patterson
The Red Badge of Courage
Alice Walker
HG Wells