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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. 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
Robinson Crusoe
To Kill a Mockingbird
Wendy Towle
Robert Frost
2. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
Henry David Thoreau
Johann David Wyss
Katherine Patterson
Gary Paulson
3. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
Daniel Defoe
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Elizabeth George Speare
Elie Wiesel
4. Wrote The House on Mango Street
Countee Cullen
Walter Dean Myers
Geoffrey Chaucer
Sandra Cisneros
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
Walt Whitman
SE Hinton
Langston Hughes
Patricia Maclachlan
6. Wrote Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
Sylvia Plath
Jane Austen
Nathaniel Hawthorne
7. Wrote The Hobbit
The Call of the Wild
JRR Tolkein
Not Without Laughter
Farenheit 451
8. Wrote Out of the Dust
Mary Shelley
Karen Hesse
Caroline Cooney
Mildred Taylor
9. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Carl Hiaason
Walter Dean Myers
Jack London
Wendy Towle
10. Wrote The Yearling
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
William Shakespeare
Not Without Laughter
Mary Downing Hahn
11. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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12. Wrote The Aeneid
Virgil
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Karen Hesse
Leo Tolstoy
13. Wrote Sonnet 18 - Hamlet - and Macbeth; greatest playwright who ever lived - prolific poet - known for sonnets
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Shakespeare
Carl Hiaason
The Joy Luck Club
14. Wrote The Outsiders
Ernest Hemingway
Toni Morrison
SE Hinton
William Wordsworth
15. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
Maya Angelou
Zora Neale Hurston
Willa Cather
CS Lewis
16. Wrote Holes
Scott O'Dell
Willa Cather
Louis Sacher
Mark Twain
17. 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
Daniel Defoe
Nancy Farmer
Beowulf
Jack London
18. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
HG Wells
Frederick Douglass
Mary Downing Hahn
Zora Neale Hurston
19. Wrote Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Kate Chopin
Willa Cather
Sandra Cisneros
20. 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
Robert Frost
Leo Tolstoy
The Catcher in the Rye
The Giver
21. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
Helen Keller
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Robert Cormier
The Picture of Dorian Gray
22. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Jean Craighead George
Alice In Wonderland
SE Hinton
23. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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24. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
Louisa May Alcott
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Frankenstein
The Red Badge of Courage
25. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
The Bell Jar
Emily Bronte
The Call of the Wild
William Butler Yeats
26. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
SE Hinton
James Joyce
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
JD Salinger
27. 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
S.E. Hinton
EB White
Animal Farm
Jane Austen
28. Wrote Hatchet
'In Reference to her Children'
Moby Dick
Gary Paulson
Madeline L'Engle
29. Wrote Maniac Magee
Robert Cormier
Jerry Spinelli
Lois Lowry
Mark Twain
30. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Louisa May Alcott
Virginia Woolf
Macbeth
Ruth Avi
31. 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
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Not Without Laughter
Maya Angelou
Robert Frost
32. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Elizabeth George Speare
Sandra Cisneros
Leo Tolstoy
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
33. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
JRR Tolkein
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Charles Dickens
TS Eliot
34. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
Jack London
'Civil Disobedience'
TS Eliot
The Red Badge of Courage
35. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker
David Copperfield
JRR Tolkein
Ralph Waldo Emerson
F. Scott Fitzgerald
36. Wrote Johnny Tremain
Herman Melville
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Ester Forbes
The Giver
37. 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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38. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Alice Walker
Willa Cather
William Golding
39. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Ray Bradbury
Paul Zindel
The Joy Luck Club
William Butler Yeats
40. 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
Not Without Laughter
Edgar Allan Poe
Beloved
41. Wrote Sounder
Wendy Towle
William Armstrong
Emily Bronte
The Catcher in the Rye
42. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Avi
1984
Mark Twain
Robert Frost
43. 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;
Christopher Marlowe
Aphra Behn
Stephen Crane
The Giver
44. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
Walter Dean Myers
JD Salinger
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Caroline Cooney
45. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Mary Shelley
Lord Byron
Not Without Laughter
Amy Tan
46. 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
Lois Lowry
David Copperfield
Langston Hughes
Lord Byron
47. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Lord of the Flies
Ben Mikaelson
Aphra Behn
The Great Gatsby
48. 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
William Butler Yeats
Edgar Allan Poe
Henry David Thoreau
William Shakespeare
49. 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
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
John Keats
The Pigman
Elie Wiesel
50. Wrote The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton
Katherine Patterson
CS Lewis
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings