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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
Kate Dicamillo
Sonnet 18
Jane Austen
Henry David Thoreau
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
The Pigman
Jerry Spinelli
Louis Sacher
Johann David Wyss
3. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird; American author
Kate Chopin
Animal Farm
Harper Lee
Percy Bysshe Shelley
4. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Aphra Behn
Animal Farm
William Wordsworth
Robert Frost
5. Wrote Holes
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Washington Irving
Countee Cullen
Louis Sacher
6. Wrote Doctor Faustus
JRR Tolkein
George Orwell
The Pigman
Christopher Marlowe
7. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
'Self - Reliance'
Anna Karenina
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Stephen Crane
8. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Lois Lowry
Edith Wharton
Jane Austen
Amy Tan
9. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Moby Dick
Katherine Patterson
Mildred Taylor
10. 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
Ruth Avi
Aphra Behn
The Great Gatsby
Robinson Crusoe
11. 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
Henry David Thoreau
Helen Keller
The Outsiders
William Wordsworth
12. Wrote The Outsiders
To Kill a Mockingbird
Patricia Maclachlan
Christopher Marlowe
SE Hinton
13. 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
Edgar Allan Poe
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lord of the Flies
Willa Cather
14. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Lord Byron
Geoffrey Chaucer
Fyodor Dostoevsky
F. Scott Fitzgerald
15. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Toni Morrison
Robert Cormier
Jean Craighead George
Edith Wharton
16. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Mary Shelley
Harper Lee
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Walter Dean Myers
17. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
Sandra Cisneros
To Kill a Mockingbird
Herman Melville
William Butler Yeats
18. 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.
The Aeneid
Ernest Hemingway
Sandra Cisneros
Langston Hughes
19. 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
Aurora Leigh
Crime and Punishment
Frederick Douglass
Jean Craighead George
20. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Walter Dean Myers
Louis Sacher
Herman Melville
Sonnet 18
21. Wrote The Lion - the Witch - and the Wardrobe
CS Lewis
Zora Neale Hurston
Lewis Carroll
Virgil
22. 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
Not Without Laughter
The Joy Luck Club
Frankenstein
Moby Dick
23. 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
1984
Frankenstein
The Aeneid
Robert Frost
24. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Walter Dean Myers
Oscar Wilde
Geoffrey Chaucer
Henry David Thoreau
25. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Langston Hughes
Patricia Maclachlan
Aphra Behn
26. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Edith Wharton
Richard Adams
Caroline Cooney
Nancy Farmer
27. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
Little Women
Willa Cather
F. Scott Fitzgerald
HG Wells
28. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
James Joyce
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Walter Dean Myers
Frederick Douglass
29. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Christopher Paul Curtis
Edith Wharton
Macbeth
Anne Frank
30. 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
Not Without Laughter
Elizabeth George Speare
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Leo Tolstoy
31. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
JRR Tolkein
Beowulf
Mark Twain
Patricia Maclachlan
32. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
EB White
Ruth Avi
Charlotte Bronte
Alice In Wonderland
33. 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
Patricia Maclachlan
Christopher Marlowe
Anne Frank
34. Wrote Sonnet 18 - Hamlet - and Macbeth; greatest playwright who ever lived - prolific poet - known for sonnets
Christopher Marlowe
The Catcher in the Rye
William Shakespeare
Paul Zindel
35. Wrote The Hobbit
JRR Tolkein
Walter Dean Myers
Frederick Douglass
John Keats
36. 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 Call of the Wild
Edgar Allan Poe
Mary Downing Hahn
Langston Hughes
37. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
The Red Badge of Courage
Macbeth
Sylvia Plath
Geoffrey Chaucer
38. Wrote The Chocolate War
Avi
Emily Dickinson
Jane Austen
Robert Cormier
39. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
Patricia Maclachlan
Aphra Behn
Sandra Cisneros
Nathaniel Hawthorne
40. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism
Beloved
EB White
Robert Cormier
Lord Byron
41. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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42. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
JD Salinger
Alice Walker
Moby Dick
Beloved
43. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Beloved
Emily Bronte
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Nancy Farmer
44. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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45. Wrote Roll of Thunder
Louisa May Alcott
Washington Irving
Mildred Taylor
The Pigman
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
Anne Frank
Beowulf
SE Hinton
Their Eyes Were Watching God
47. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Johann David Wyss
Patricia Maclachlan
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Emily Dickinson
48. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
The Pigman
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
The Red Badge of Courage
49. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
Mary Shelley
Avi
The Bell Jar
Watership Down
50. 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
Charles Dickens
William Wordsworth
Mary Shelley
George Orwell