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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
Beowulf
Ray Bradbury
Ruth Avi
James Joyce
2. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
Mildred Taylor
Sandra Cisneros
Lewis Carroll
Gary Paulson
3. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist
The Call of the Wild
SE Hinton
Henry David Thoreau
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
4. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
Henry David Thoreau
John Keats
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Picture of Dorian Gray
5. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Lord Byron
Herman Melville
Oscar Wilde
JD Salinger
6. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
Farenheit 451
Not Without Laughter
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Pigman
7. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Elie Wiesel
The Aeneid
Anna Karenina
1984
8. Wrote Wuthering Heights
Mark Twain
Watership Down
Emily Bronte
Charlotte Bronte
9. 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;
Avi
Frederick Douglass
The Giver
Alice Walker
10. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Aurora Leigh
Walt Whitman
Aphra Behn
Henry David Thoreau
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
Walt Whitman
Robert Frost
Wendy Towle
HG Wells
12. Wrote The Lion - the Witch - and the Wardrobe
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elie Wiesel
Mark Twain
CS Lewis
13. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
Louisa May Alcott
Amy Tan
Sandra Cisneros
Jack London
14. 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
The Catcher in the Rye
David Copperfield
'Civil Disobedience'
CS Lewis
15. Wrote Sonnet 18 - Hamlet - and Macbeth; greatest playwright who ever lived - prolific poet - known for sonnets
Avi
Edith Wharton
William Shakespeare
'In Reference to her Children'
16. Wrote The Outsiders
1984
Lord of the Flies
SE Hinton
The Pigman
17. 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
Watership Down
Helen Keller
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Holes
18. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Toni Morrison
Helen Keller
Aphra Behn
Christopher Paul Curtis
19. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
Emily Dickinson
Stephen Crane
Sonnet 18
Katherine Patterson
20. The protagonist of the story is a boy named Sandy whose family must deal with a variety of struggles imposed upon them due to their race and class in society in addition to relating to one another
The Bell Jar
Not Without Laughter
Avi
Mildred Taylor
21. Wrote Watership Down
Countee Cullen
Ester Forbes
Lois Lowry
Richard Adams
22. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
Macbeth
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Giver
Beowulf
23. An impoverished young woman (Jane) struggles to maintain her autonomy in the face of oppression - prejudice - and love; Gothic novel - bildungsroman - social portest novel
Paul Zindel
Stephen Crane
Jane Eyre
Holes
24. 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
Frankenstein
Stephen Crane
Paul Zindel
William Golding
25. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lewis Carroll
William Golding
Daniel Defoe
26. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
Geoffrey Chaucer
Willa Cather
JRR Tolkein
Beowulf
27. Wrote Hoot
Carl Hiaason
The Giver
Jane Eyre
William Butler Yeats
28. 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.
Harper Lee
Ben Mikaelson
Countee Cullen
The Aeneid
29. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Amy Tan
Lewis Carroll
Nancy Farmer
Daniel Defoe
30. Wrote The Chocolate War
Emily Bronte
Willa Cather
'Self - Reliance'
Robert Cormier
31. In an attempt to prove a theory - a student (Raskolnikov) murders two women - after which he suffers greatly from guilt and worry; psychological drama - setting in the 1860s
Edith Wharton
Emily Dickinson
Crime and Punishment
Mary Shelley
32. Wrote Little Women; American novelist
Washington Irving
The Call of the Wild
Jack London
Louisa May Alcott
33. 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
Christopher Marlowe
Nancy Farmer
HG Wells
John Keats
34. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Louis Sacher
35. Wrote Out of the Dust
Sylvia Plath
Karen Hesse
Lois Lowry
Mark Twain
36. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
The Joy Luck Club
Animal Farm
HG Wells
Emily Bronte
37. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker
Leo Tolstoy
Macbeth
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ray Bradbury
38. After two marriages to oppressive men - a woman (Janie Crawford) finds temporary happiness with a husband twelve years her junior; themes: the illusion of power - non - necessity of relationships - folkloric quality of religion
The Call of the Wild
Christopher Paul Curtis
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Daniel Defoe
39. Wrote Sounder
William Armstrong
Zora Neale Hurston
James Joyce
Macbeth
40. 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
Christopher Marlowe
Edgar Allan Poe
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Willa Cather
41. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Katherine Patterson
Toni Morrison
Scott O'Dell
Ruth Avi
42. 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
Lord Byron
Aphra Behn
William Wordsworth
43. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Washington Irving
Harper Lee
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Madeline L'Engle
44. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
Alice In Wonderland
Katherine Patterson
Aurora Leigh
Washington Irving
45. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Johann David Wyss
Robinson Crusoe
Lois Lowry
46. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Alice Walker
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Madeline L'Engle
47. 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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48. Wrote Charlotte's Web
Stephen Crane
Jean Craighead George
Charles Dickens
EB White
49. Wrote The Weary Blues - The Ways of White Folks - and Not Without Laughter; American poet - novelist - playwright - short story writer - and columnist; early innovator for literary art known as jazz poetry; best known for work during Harlem Renaissan
Moby Dick
Daniel Defoe
Langston Hughes
Herman Melville
50. Wrote Hatchet
The Call of the Wild
Lewis Carroll
Gary Paulson
William Golding