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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote The Lion - the Witch - and the Wardrobe
Sandra Cisneros
The Giver
CS Lewis
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. Wrote Sounder
Sylvia Plath
William Armstrong
Johann David Wyss
1984
3. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
Sylvia Plath
Frankenstein
Countee Cullen
Robinson Crusoe
4. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
Walt Whitman
Charles Dickens
Mildred Taylor
Maya Angelou
5. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
EB White
The Giver
Mark Twain
Caroline Cooney
6. 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
Aphra Behn
Toni Morrison
The Pigman
Fyodor Dostoevsky
7. Wrote Roll of Thunder
The Catcher in the Rye
Mildred Taylor
Toni Morrison
SE Hinton
8. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
Robert Frost
Ben Mikaelson
Harper Lee
Sandra Cisneros
9. Wrote The Pigman
Paul Zindel
Mildred Taylor
Geoffrey Chaucer
Lois Lowry
10. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Stephen Crane
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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
Stephen Crane
Patricia Maclachlan
Richard Adams
'Civil Disobedience'
12. 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
Countee Cullen
Mark Twain
Mary Shelley
William Wordsworth
13. 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
Jane Eyre
Little Women
Lewis Carroll
The Catcher in the Rye
14. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty
Louisa May Alcott
Lord of the Flies
The Giver
Alice In Wonderland
15. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
HG Wells
Walt Whitman
Little Women
Karen Hesse
16. Inspired by witch's prophecy - a man murders his way to the throne of Scotland - but his conscience plagues him and his fellow lords rise up against him; themes: unchecked ambition as a corrupting force - relationship between cruelty and masculinity
Macbeth
Robert Cormier
Walter Dean Myers
The Outsiders
17. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird; American author
Kate Chopin
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Red Badge of Courage
Harper Lee
18. 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'
Walter Dean Myers
Walt Whitman
Wendy Towle
Ernest Hemingway
19. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
CS Lewis
Ruth Avi
The Call of the Wild
Daniel Defoe
20. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
Watership Down
The Giver
Washington Irving
Daniel Defoe
21. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
Carl Hiaason
Helen Keller
Toni Morrison
Frankenstein
22. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
Sylvia Plath
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Paul Zindel
Patricia Maclachlan
23. 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
The Aeneid
Langston Hughes
George Orwell
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
24. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Lord Byron
Richard Adams
EB White
Lois Lowry
25. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
Toni Morrison
Alice Walker
To Kill a Mockingbird
Watership Down
26. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
Christopher Paul Curtis
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye
Alice In Wonderland
27. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Madeline L'Engle
Helen Keller
Christopher Paul Curtis
Watership Down
28. Wrote The Outsiders
F. Scott Fitzgerald
S.E. Hinton
Sylvia Plath
Mildred Taylor
29. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist
Richard Adams
William Armstrong
Crime and Punishment
Henry David Thoreau
30. 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.
Ray Bradbury
Macbeth
Aphra Behn
The Aeneid
31. Wrote Doctor Faustus
Geoffrey Chaucer
Robinson Crusoe
Christopher Marlowe
Their Eyes Were Watching God
32. 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
Madeline L'Engle
Elizabeth George Speare
'Civil Disobedience'
Edgar Allan Poe
33. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
Watership Down
Jack London
Anna Karenina
William Wordsworth
34. Wrote Hoot
S.E. Hinton
Carl Hiaason
Mildred Taylor
Wendy Towle
35. 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
Elie Wiesel
Robinson Crusoe
Christopher Marlowe
Elizabeth George Speare
36. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Ben Mikaelson
Mary Shelley
The Catcher in the Rye
Elie Wiesel
37. Wrote The Awakening - The Storm; feminist author of the 20th century; born in St. Louis - Missouri
Nancy Farmer
Kate Chopin
Ben Mikaelson
Beloved
38. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
JD Salinger
The Bell Jar
The Red Badge of Courage
1984
39. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
The Bell Jar
Ernest Hemingway
Oscar Wilde
Charlotte Bronte
40. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe
Christopher Paul Curtis
Lord Byron
Madeline L'Engle
Beloved
41. Wrote Holes
Louis Sacher
Lois Lowry
Emily Bronte
Jerry Spinelli
42. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
James Joyce
Willa Cather
The Joy Luck Club
Beowulf
43. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
Holes
Nancy Farmer
Animal Farm
Fyodor Dostoevsky
44. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stephen Crane
Geoffrey Chaucer
Wendy Towle
45. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism
SE Hinton
Lord Byron
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Outsiders
46. 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
Countee Cullen
Emily Dickinson
Jerry Spinelli
Moby Dick
47. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
JRR Tolkein
EB White
Christopher Marlowe
Lewis Carroll
48. 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
To Kill a Mockingbird
Louisa May Alcott
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Farenheit 451
49. A monomaniacal captain tries and fails to kill a monstrous white whale; adventure story - quest tale - allegory; protagonist: Ishmael - Ahab; antogonist: Ahab - great white sperm whale
The Bell Jar
Ruth Avi
Moby Dick
Sandra Cisneros
50. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
Christopher Paul Curtis
Frederick Douglass
Wendy Towle
The Picture of Dorian Gray