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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Johann David Wyss
Jane Austen
Anna Karenina
Mary Downing Hahn
2. Gothic novel; a scientist creates a monster - and then abandons it in horror - a decision that leads to disaster and the deaths of nearly everyone he loves
William Shakespeare
Robert Cormier
Frankenstein
'In Reference to her Children'
3. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
Paul Zindel
HG Wells
James Joyce
Scott O'Dell
4. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Moby Dick
Kate Chopin
William Shakespeare
Leo Tolstoy
5. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Robinson Crusoe
William Golding
Virgil
6. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Mary Shelley
Emily Dickinson
'Civil Disobedience'
The Bell Jar
7. Book written by George Orwell - announced an insane world of dehumanization through terror in which the individual was systematically obliterated by an all - power elite; key phrases: Big Brother - doublethink - Newspeak - the Ministry of Peace...Tru
Elizabeth George Speare
Caroline Cooney
1984
Holes
8. Wrote The Aeneid
Charles Dickens
Aphra Behn
The Bell Jar
Virgil
9. 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
The Joy Luck Club
CS Lewis
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Johann David Wyss
10. 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
Lord Byron
Virginia Woolf
Mary Downing Hahn
Ben Mikaelson
11. 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
Ruth Avi
John Keats
James Joyce
Robert Frost
12. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Watership Down
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beloved
Alice Walker
13. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Virgil
Lois Lowry
Walt Whitman
George Orwell
14. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Alice Walker
Jerry Spinelli
Not Without Laughter
Sharon Creech
15. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
To Kill a Mockingbird
Sylvia Plath
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Anne Bradstreet
16. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
George Orwell
Katherine Patterson
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Lois Lowry
17. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
Anne Bradstreet
Frederick Douglass
JD Salinger
Charles Dickens
18. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Scott O'Dell
Christopher Marlowe
Beloved
19. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Mildred Taylor
Anne Frank
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
William Golding
20. Wrote Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Sonnet 18
JD Salinger
21. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
EB White
Edith Wharton
Anne Bradstreet
Countee Cullen
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 Golding
William Wordsworth
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Christopher Paul Curtis
23. 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
Edgar Allan Poe
William Golding
HG Wells
1984
24. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Aphra Behn
Ruth Avi
Oscar Wilde
25. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
Willa Cather
The Red Badge of Courage
Not Without Laughter
Patricia Maclachlan
26. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
Willa Cather
Charles Dickens
Sonnet 18
Lois Lowry
27. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
Patricia Maclachlan
Watership Down
Mary Downing Hahn
Lewis Carroll
28. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
Elie Wiesel
Lord Byron
Scott O'Dell
Washington Irving
29. 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
Nancy Farmer
David Copperfield
TS Eliot
Elie Wiesel
30. 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
Anne Frank
John Keats
The Catcher in the Rye
Christopher Marlowe
31. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
'Self - Reliance'
Toni Morrison
Johann David Wyss
EB White
32. Wrote Sonnet 18 - Hamlet - and Macbeth; greatest playwright who ever lived - prolific poet - known for sonnets
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Catcher in the Rye
William Shakespeare
JD Salinger
33. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
Louis Sacher
The Aeneid
Lord Byron
William Butler Yeats
34. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty
Lord of the Flies
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ester Forbes
Langston Hughes
35. 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
The Outsiders
William Armstrong
Walt Whitman
'In Reference to her Children'
36. 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
'Self - Reliance'
Not Without Laughter
Geoffrey Chaucer
37. Wrote Night
Elie Wiesel
HG Wells
Robinson Crusoe
Anne Bradstreet
38. An impoverished young woman (Jane) struggles to maintain her autonomy in the face of oppression - prejudice - and love; Gothic novel - bildungsroman - social portest novel
Robinson Crusoe
Jack London
Lois Lowry
Jane Eyre
39. '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
Madeline L'Engle
Sandra Cisneros
Sonnet 18
Sylvia Plath
40. Wrote The Hobbit
Leo Tolstoy
William Shakespeare
JRR Tolkein
The Pigman
41. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
Wendy Towle
William Golding
Oscar Wilde
42. 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
SE Hinton
William Shakespeare
Edith Wharton
43. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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44. 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 Picture of Dorian Gray
Countee Cullen
Charlotte Bronte
HG Wells
45. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
Lord of the Flies
Anna Karenina
Alice In Wonderland
Ernest Hemingway
46. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
The Call of the Wild
Charlotte Bronte
Avi
Lois Lowry
47. Wrote Watership Down
Richard Adams
Macbeth
F. Scott Fitzgerald
S.E. Hinton
48. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Zora Neale Hurston
The Bell Jar
Fyodor Dostoevsky
49. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Sharon Creech
Anna Karenina
Holes
Leo Tolstoy
50. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
The Outsiders
Emily Bronte
JD Salinger
Beloved