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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote The Glory Field
Walter Dean Myers
Karen Hesse
The Pigman
Sonnet 18
2. Wrote Charlotte's Web
Emily Dickinson
EB White
Mildred Taylor
Beloved
3. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
Charles Dickens
Avi
Mary Shelley
Louis Sacher
4. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Walt Whitman
Daniel Defoe
Sandra Cisneros
5. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Katherine Patterson
Louis Sacher
William Golding
6. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Alice In Wonderland
TS Eliot
Elizabeth George Speare
7. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
Toni Morrison
Christopher Marlowe
Zora Neale Hurston
Kate Dicamillo
8. Wrote The Pigman
Paul Zindel
Emily Dickinson
William Shakespeare
Kate Dicamillo
9. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
Anne Bradstreet
Washington Irving
Madeline L'Engle
Walt Whitman
10. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Anne Bradstreet
Elie Wiesel
Willa Cather
11. 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
CS Lewis
Louis Sacher
William Golding
Stephen Crane
12. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Mary Shelley
Karen Hesse
EB White
Robert Frost
13. 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
Charles Dickens
Stephen Crane
David Copperfield
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
14. Wrote Doctor Faustus
Emily Dickinson
Christopher Marlowe
Helen Keller
Sharon Creech
15. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
Helen Keller
Mildred Taylor
George Orwell
SE Hinton
16. Wrote Little Women; American novelist
Christopher Paul Curtis
Louisa May Alcott
Walt Whitman
Louis Sacher
17. '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
'Civil Disobedience'
Jane Austen
Sonnet 18
To Kill a Mockingbird
18. Wrote Hoot
Carl Hiaason
The Great Gatsby
Moby Dick
'In Reference to her Children'
19. 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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20. Wrote Night
Geoffrey Chaucer
Oscar Wilde
The Great Gatsby
Elie Wiesel
21. 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
Virgil
Countee Cullen
Crime and Punishment
Langston Hughes
22. 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
Louis Sacher
Walt Whitman
Holes
Beowulf
23. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Macbeth
Wendy Towle
Anna Karenina
The Great Gatsby
24. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
Mary Shelley
Henry David Thoreau
Katherine Patterson
The Picture of Dorian Gray
25. 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
Walt Whitman
The Aeneid
Anne Bradstreet
Robinson Crusoe
26. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Emily Dickinson
Ben Mikaelson
William Wordsworth
Ray Bradbury
27. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
SE Hinton
Mary Downing Hahn
Avi
Patricia Maclachlan
28. Wrote Maniac Magee
Jerry Spinelli
Jane Eyre
Ernest Hemingway
Sharon Creech
29. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
Zora Neale Hurston
Henry David Thoreau
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Paul Zindel
30. Wrote Out of the Dust
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Outsiders
Louis Sacher
Karen Hesse
31. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
The Pigman
Helen Keller
Lois Lowry
Louis Sacher
32. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Leo Tolstoy
Sylvia Plath
F. Scott Fitzgerald
33. 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
Elie Wiesel
Maya Angelou
The Catcher in the Rye
Holes
34. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Anne Bradstreet
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
To Kill a Mockingbird
Mary Shelley
35. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Sylvia Plath
Fyodor Dostoevsky
EB White
SE Hinton
36. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
The Outsiders
Sandra Cisneros
Robert Frost
Maya Angelou
37. 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'
Langston Hughes
Mildred Taylor
Ernest Hemingway
'Civil Disobedience'
38. Wrote Johnny Tremain
SE Hinton
Ester Forbes
Mary Downing Hahn
Wendy Towle
39. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Sandra Cisneros
Geoffrey Chaucer
40. 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
William Wordsworth
The Pigman
The Great Gatsby
Anne Frank
41. 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
Beloved
Avi
Anne Bradstreet
42. 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
Caroline Cooney
Holes
James Joyce
Beloved
43. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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44. Wrote The House on Mango Street
Charlotte Bronte
Sandra Cisneros
Walter Dean Myers
Washington Irving
45. 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
Emily Bronte
Johann David Wyss
The Red Badge of Courage
Their Eyes Were Watching God
46. 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
Crime and Punishment
Not Without Laughter
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
The Outsiders
47. 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;
Caroline Cooney
The Giver
Mary Downing Hahn
Frederick Douglass
48. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Mary Shelley
Wendy Towle
Ray Bradbury
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
49. 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
Carl Hiaason
Crime and Punishment
Sharon Creech
Kate Chopin
50. 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
Holes
Mildred Taylor
Mary Downing Hahn
John Keats