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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Leo Tolstoy
Lois Lowry
Sharon Creech
Sonnet 18
2. 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
Harper Lee
The Pigman
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Scott O'Dell
3. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
The Bell Jar
Jack London
Kate Dicamillo
TS Eliot
4. Wrote Sounder
William Armstrong
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Edith Wharton
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
5. A great warrior - goes to Denmark on a successful mission to kill Grendel; he returns home to Geatland - where he becomes king and slays a dragon before dying; poem; alliterative verse - elegy - small scale heroic epic; author unknown; setting around
Lord of the Flies
Robert Frost
Beowulf
James Joyce
6. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Animal Farm
Ben Mikaelson
James Joyce
7. Wrote The Aeneid
Frankenstein
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Outsiders
Virgil
8. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
Wendy Towle
David Copperfield
Zora Neale Hurston
Aurora Leigh
9. 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
Wendy Towle
Stephen Crane
The Call of the Wild
Not Without Laughter
10. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
David Copperfield
Madeline L'Engle
'Self - Reliance'
11. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
Aurora Leigh
The Bell Jar
'Civil Disobedience'
Ruth Avi
12. Wrote The Awakening - The Storm; feminist author of the 20th century; born in St. Louis - Missouri
To Kill a Mockingbird
Alice In Wonderland
Gary Paulson
Kate Chopin
13. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Charles Dickens
Sandra Cisneros
Mildred Taylor
Avi
14. Wrote Hatchet
Watership Down
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Gary Paulson
15. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
TS Eliot
Mildred Taylor
Leo Tolstoy
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
16. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird; American author
Herman Melville
Paul Zindel
Harper Lee
Willa Cather
17. 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
Ben Mikaelson
The Red Badge of Courage
1984
Charles Dickens
18. In a futuristic America - a firefighter (Guy Montag) decides to buck society - stop burning books - and start seeking knowledge; themes: censorship - knowledge vs. ignorance - religion as a knowledge giver
Nancy Farmer
Lois Lowry
Farenheit 451
Christopher Marlowe
19. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Ruth Avi
'In Reference to her Children'
William Armstrong
Christopher Marlowe
20. Wrote Out of the Dust
Ruth Avi
Karen Hesse
SE Hinton
Mildred Taylor
21. 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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22. 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
Nancy Farmer
Jane Eyre
Countee Cullen
Gary Paulson
23. Wrote Jane Eyre
The Call of the Wild
Charlotte Bronte
Jane Austen
To Kill a Mockingbird
24. Wrote The Outsiders
Paul Zindel
Alice In Wonderland
Crime and Punishment
S.E. Hinton
25. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Lois Lowry
Johann David Wyss
Anne Frank
CS Lewis
26. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
EB White
Ester Forbes
Farenheit 451
27. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Johann David Wyss
Kate Dicamillo
Helen Keller
George Orwell
28. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Sharon Creech
Daniel Defoe
Mark Twain
Kate Chopin
29. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
Virgil
Farenheit 451
Charles Dickens
Lois Lowry
30. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
Elie Wiesel
Mary Downing Hahn
Frederick Douglass
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
31. Wrote Holes
Sonnet 18
Louis Sacher
Christopher Marlowe
Ernest Hemingway
32. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker
George Orwell
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Langston Hughes
Moby Dick
33. Wrote Sonnet 18 - Hamlet - and Macbeth; greatest playwright who ever lived - prolific poet - known for sonnets
Mary Shelley
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Stephen Crane
William Shakespeare
34. 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
Moby Dick
HG Wells
Christopher Marlowe
John Keats
35. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Christopher Marlowe
Ben Mikaelson
Christopher Paul Curtis
William Armstrong
36. 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
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Amy Tan
Emily Dickinson
Robinson Crusoe
37. Wrote Wuthering Heights
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Emily Bronte
Ray Bradbury
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
38. Wrote 'Wild Nights -- Wild Nights!;' 'I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died -' and 'Because I Could Not Stop For Death --;' 19th century poet; major themes: flowers/gardens - the master poems - morbidity - gospel poems - the undiscovered continent; irregula
Emily Dickinson
Beloved
Anne Bradstreet
Ralph Waldo Emerson
39. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
CS Lewis
Katherine Patterson
The Giver
Leo Tolstoy
40. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
Katherine Patterson
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Stephen Crane
Alice In Wonderland
41. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
William Golding
Ray Bradbury
Oscar Wilde
Ernest Hemingway
42. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Crime and Punishment
Lewis Carroll
Walter Dean Myers
Oscar Wilde
43. 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'
Ernest Hemingway
Lewis Carroll
Oscar Wilde
Helen Keller
44. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
Willa Cather
Emily Bronte
Walt Whitman
Beowulf
45. Wrote Maniac Magee
The Bell Jar
Sharon Creech
Beowulf
Jerry Spinelli
46. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
Aphra Behn
George Orwell
William Golding
Amy Tan
47. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
Sonnet 18
Caroline Cooney
Katherine Patterson
Mary Downing Hahn
48. 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
Christopher Marlowe
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Outsiders
Nathaniel Hawthorne
49. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Mary Downing Hahn
Daniel Defoe
Jane Austen
Frederick Douglass
50. Wrote Charlotte's Web
Mildred Taylor
Edgar Allan Poe
EB White
James Joyce