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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird; American author
Harper Lee
Nancy Farmer
Countee Cullen
Madeline L'Engle
2. Wrote The Outsiders
SE Hinton
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Frankenstein
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
3. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
Holes
Nancy Farmer
Elizabeth George Speare
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
4. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
JD Salinger
Sylvia Plath
Jack London
Ernest Hemingway
5. 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
Not Without Laughter
Washington Irving
CS Lewis
Langston Hughes
6. 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
Amy Tan
The Joy Luck Club
The Call of the Wild
The Giver
7. 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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8. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
HG Wells
Mary Downing Hahn
Zora Neale Hurston
JRR Tolkein
9. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Daniel Defoe
William Wordsworth
Richard Adams
Moby Dick
10. Wrote The Great Gatsby
Ruth Avi
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Anna Karenina
The Red Badge of Courage
11. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
Lois Lowry
TS Eliot
Nancy Farmer
Charles Dickens
12. Wrote The Pigman
Paul Zindel
Little Women
Elie Wiesel
Leo Tolstoy
13. Wrote Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe
Lois Lowry
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lewis Carroll
14. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Johann David Wyss
Oscar Wilde
William Armstrong
1984
15. 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
William Butler Yeats
William Shakespeare
George Orwell
Frankenstein
16. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
Jean Craighead George
Jane Eyre
Ray Bradbury
Kate Dicamillo
17. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
Gary Paulson
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Catcher in the Rye
James Joyce
18. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
'Self - Reliance'
The Call of the Wild
Jean Craighead George
19. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe
Washington Irving
1984
Helen Keller
Beloved
20. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Frankenstein
Louisa May Alcott
JD Salinger
21. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
JD Salinger
James Joyce
Maya Angelou
Lewis Carroll
22. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
CS Lewis
Daniel Defoe
Sylvia Plath
Not Without Laughter
23. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
Avi
Langston Hughes
Geoffrey Chaucer
Their Eyes Were Watching God
24. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
Zora Neale Hurston
Kate Dicamillo
The Great Gatsby
Mary Downing Hahn
25. 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
Gary Paulson
Sonnet 18
John Keats
Leo Tolstoy
26. Wrote Walk Two Moons
HG Wells
Mildred Taylor
William Shakespeare
Sharon Creech
27. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Outsiders
Oscar Wilde
Maya Angelou
28. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
1984
The Call of the Wild
Patricia Maclachlan
James Joyce
29. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
The Pigman
Frederick Douglass
JD Salinger
Amy Tan
30. Wrote Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Mansfield Park - et al.
Jerry Spinelli
Jane Austen
Not Without Laughter
'Self - Reliance'
31. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
Lewis Carroll
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
Farenheit 451
32. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
Ben Mikaelson
William Wordsworth
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Louis Sacher
33. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Langston Hughes
Not Without Laughter
Carl Hiaason
Leo Tolstoy
34. 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
Geoffrey Chaucer
Aurora Leigh
Countee Cullen
1984
35. 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
EB White
Watership Down
The Outsiders
Ernest Hemingway
36. Wrote Shiloh
Moby Dick
Christopher Marlowe
William Wordsworth
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
37. 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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38. Wrote Ethan Frome
William Shakespeare
Richard Adams
Edith Wharton
Lord Byron
39. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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40. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
Louis Sacher
Helen Keller
Charles Dickens
Johann David Wyss
41. 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
The Aeneid
Helen Keller
Countee Cullen
Alice In Wonderland
42. 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
Lewis Carroll
The Joy Luck Club
Sonnet 18
Amy Tan
43. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
Emily Bronte
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Alice Walker
TS Eliot
44. 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'
Robert Cormier
John Keats
Ernest Hemingway
Farenheit 451
45. 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
Anna Karenina
Animal Farm
Charles Dickens
Mildred Taylor
46. 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
Beowulf
Richard Adams
Virgil
Edgar Allan Poe
47. 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
Washington Irving
Sonnet 18
John Keats
Edgar Allan Poe
48. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Call of the Wild
Animal Farm
To Kill a Mockingbird
49. 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
'In Reference to her Children'
Aurora Leigh
The Catcher in the Rye
Sandra Cisneros
50. Wrote Charlotte's Web
Little Women
Watership Down
EB White
Nathaniel Hawthorne