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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
SE Hinton
Wendy Towle
Jack London
Anne Bradstreet
2. Wrote Hoot
Carl Hiaason
Jane Eyre
Mildred Taylor
Sharon Creech
3. 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
Stephen Crane
Henry David Thoreau
Paul Zindel
Mary Downing Hahn
4. Wrote Johnny Tremain
Ester Forbes
Frederick Douglass
Kate Dicamillo
Zora Neale Hurston
5. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
Frankenstein
Robert Cormier
Washington Irving
Mildred Taylor
6. 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
Frankenstein
Ruth Avi
Jean Craighead George
Herman Melville
7. Wrote The Outsiders
Langston Hughes
SE Hinton
Johann David Wyss
Nathaniel Hawthorne
8. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
Herman Melville
Edith Wharton
Louisa May Alcott
Mildred Taylor
9. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
Lord Byron
Mildred Taylor
Alice In Wonderland
Jack London
10. Wrote Little Women; American novelist
Christopher Paul Curtis
Geoffrey Chaucer
Louisa May Alcott
Fyodor Dostoevsky
11. Wrote The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton
Toni Morrison
Not Without Laughter
The Giver
12. 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
Virginia Woolf
Ruth Avi
Beowulf
Lord Byron
13. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism
James Joyce
William Armstrong
Charlotte Bronte
Lord Byron
14. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Avi
Kate Dicamillo
Toni Morrison
JRR Tolkein
15. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
HG Wells
Jerry Spinelli
Katherine Patterson
Sonnet 18
16. Wrote Night
The Picture of Dorian Gray
John Keats
Elie Wiesel
Katherine Patterson
17. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Richard Adams
William Butler Yeats
Mary Downing Hahn
18. A pampered dog (Buck) adjusts to the harsh realities of life in the North as he struggles with his recovered wild instincts and finds a master (John Thorton) who treats him right; novel - adventure story - setting late 1890s
The Call of the Wild
'Civil Disobedience'
George Orwell
Daniel Defoe
19. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Animal Farm
Christopher Paul Curtis
Johann David Wyss
Alice In Wonderland
20. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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21. 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
Elie Wiesel
William Wordsworth
HG Wells
22. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
William Armstrong
Emily Dickinson
Carl Hiaason
Patricia Maclachlan
23. 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
1984
'In Reference to her Children'
Carl Hiaason
William Wordsworth
24. A group of animals mount a successful rebellion against the farmer who rules them - but their dreams of equality for all are ruined when one pig seizes power; novella - dystopian animal fable
Animal Farm
Alice Walker
Edgar Allan Poe
Not Without Laughter
25. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
Alice In Wonderland
Aphra Behn
S.E. Hinton
Percy Bysshe Shelley
26. Wrote The Glory Field
Farenheit 451
Louis Sacher
Frederick Douglass
Walter Dean Myers
27. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Christopher Paul Curtis
Countee Cullen
The Aeneid
Virginia Woolf
28. 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
William Golding
Avi
Countee Cullen
29. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
Madeline L'Engle
Caroline Cooney
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Virginia Woolf
30. '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
Robinson Crusoe
Sonnet 18
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jerry Spinelli
31. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Gary Paulson
Toni Morrison
Mildred Taylor
32. Wrote Charlotte's Web
EB White
Harper Lee
William Wordsworth
Moby Dick
33. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
JD Salinger
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Aphra Behn
34. Wrote Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
To Kill a Mockingbird
John Keats
Ray Bradbury
35. Wrote Hatchet
Gary Paulson
S.E. Hinton
Edith Wharton
Paul Zindel
36. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
Virginia Woolf
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Frederick Douglass
Fyodor Dostoevsky
37. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
The Joy Luck Club
The Bell Jar
Helen Keller
Holes
38. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Lewis Carroll
The Pigman
Toni Morrison
Moby Dick
39. Wrote The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Farenheit 451
The Picture of Dorian Gray
40. Wrote A Farewell to Arms - The Old Man and the Sea - and The Sun Also Rises; American writer and journalist; veteran of WWI - belongs to literary movement called 'The Lost Generation'
Daniel Defoe
Kate Chopin
Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God
41. Wrote Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Mansfield Park - et al.
Jane Austen
The Bell Jar
Nancy Farmer
Maya Angelou
42. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
Langston Hughes
Harper Lee
Walt Whitman
Lois Lowry
43. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Anna Karenina
Frederick Douglass
Robert Frost
Jerry Spinelli
44. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
Alice In Wonderland
JD Salinger
William Butler Yeats
William Shakespeare
45. Wrote Sounder
'In Reference to her Children'
Alice Walker
Anna Karenina
William Armstrong
46. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Walter Dean Myers
Beowulf
Lord of the Flies
Herman Melville
47. 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
Helen Keller
Crime and Punishment
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Emily Dickinson
48. 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
Jack London
William Armstrong
Countee Cullen
Zora Neale Hurston
49. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Johann David Wyss
William Butler Yeats
Moby Dick
50. 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
Ray Bradbury
Elie Wiesel
Holes
The Great Gatsby