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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote The Outsiders
SE Hinton
Emily Dickinson
Ruth Avi
Emily Bronte
2. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Lewis Carroll
William Butler Yeats
EB White
Leo Tolstoy
3. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
Zora Neale Hurston
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Mark Twain
William Golding
4. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
To Kill a Mockingbird
Beowulf
Herman Melville
The Catcher in the Rye
5. Wrote Holes
Walter Dean Myers
Watership Down
Louis Sacher
Henry David Thoreau
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
Little Women
The Aeneid
Frankenstein
Maya Angelou
7. 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
Madeline L'Engle
Lois Lowry
The Pigman
Langston Hughes
8. Wrote The Awakening - The Storm; feminist author of the 20th century; born in St. Louis - Missouri
Charlotte Bronte
Willa Cather
Kate Chopin
Ben Mikaelson
9. 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
Carl Hiaason
Robert Frost
Sharon Creech
Paul Zindel
10. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Virgil
Mary Shelley
Scott O'Dell
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
11. 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
EB White
Aphra Behn
Anne Frank
12. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Beowulf
Karen Hesse
Christopher Paul Curtis
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
13. 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
John Keats
Louisa May Alcott
Amy Tan
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
14. Maintains the bird metaphor throughout the poem's ninety - six lines - describing the various 'flights' of five of her children and her concerns about those remaining in the nest
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15. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
To Kill a Mockingbird
Mark Twain
Walter Dean Myers
Karen Hesse
16. 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
Richard Adams
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Johann David Wyss
Stephen Crane
17. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Virgil
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Not Without Laughter
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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
SE Hinton
Elie Wiesel
Farenheit 451
S.E. Hinton
19. 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
Ben Mikaelson
'In Reference to her Children'
The Catcher in the Rye
Mildred Taylor
20. Wrote The Lion - the Witch - and the Wardrobe
William Golding
Amy Tan
Langston Hughes
CS Lewis
21. Wrote Maniac Magee
Jerry Spinelli
Elie Wiesel
Edith Wharton
William Butler Yeats
22. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
James Joyce
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Patricia Maclachlan
Jean Craighead George
23. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
The Bell Jar
EB White
Alice Walker
Sandra Cisneros
24. Wrote The Pigman
Anne Bradstreet
JRR Tolkein
The Aeneid
Paul Zindel
25. 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
Mark Twain
Ester Forbes
Emily Dickinson
Leo Tolstoy
26. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
Elie Wiesel
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
SE Hinton
Ben Mikaelson
27. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Alice Walker
Crime and Punishment
Sharon Creech
Caroline Cooney
28. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
Willa Cather
Robert Cormier
Elie Wiesel
Anne Bradstreet
29. 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
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Mary Shelley
Farenheit 451
Washington Irving
30. 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
Mary Shelley
EB White
Macbeth
Animal Farm
31. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Nancy Farmer
Amy Tan
Washington Irving
Walter Dean Myers
32. 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
David Copperfield
Farenheit 451
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Charles Dickens
33. Wrote Sonnet 18 - Hamlet - and Macbeth; greatest playwright who ever lived - prolific poet - known for sonnets
Jack London
Kate Dicamillo
William Shakespeare
Mildred Taylor
34. Wrote The Chocolate War
S.E. Hinton
Daniel Defoe
Robert Cormier
The Catcher in the Rye
35. 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
Ruth Avi
Countee Cullen
Edith Wharton
Ben Mikaelson
36. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
George Orwell
Frederick Douglass
Christopher Marlowe
The Call of the Wild
37. 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
Maya Angelou
Toni Morrison
Beowulf
Aurora Leigh
38. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
Lois Lowry
The Great Gatsby
Daniel Defoe
Paul Zindel
39. 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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40. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
The Giver
CS Lewis
1984
Jack London
41. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
Moby Dick
Elizabeth George Speare
Nancy Farmer
Herman Melville
42. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
Walt Whitman
Lewis Carroll
TS Eliot
Farenheit 451
43. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
Louisa May Alcott
Kate Chopin
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Aurora Leigh
44. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
Jack London
The Red Badge of Courage
Edgar Allan Poe
James Joyce
45. Wrote Ethan Frome
Sandra Cisneros
George Orwell
Countee Cullen
Edith Wharton
46. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
Little Women
Mildred Taylor
Toni Morrison
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
47. Wrote The Glory Field
Walter Dean Myers
The Aeneid
Frederick Douglass
Mark Twain
48. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
James Joyce
The Giver
Lewis Carroll
Patricia Maclachlan
49. 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
Karen Hesse
William Wordsworth
Walter Dean Myers
Ralph Waldo Emerson
50. Wrote The Aeneid
Daniel Defoe
Virgil
James Joyce
Stephen Crane
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