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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
David Copperfield
Oscar Wilde
Kate Chopin
Anne Frank
2. Wrote Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
The Joy Luck Club
Lois Lowry
Maya Angelou
3. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
Oscar Wilde
Emily Dickinson
Helen Keller
Ben Mikaelson
4. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Toni Morrison
The Catcher in the Rye
Kate Dicamillo
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
5. Wrote Roll of Thunder
Amy Tan
JRR Tolkein
Louis Sacher
Mildred Taylor
6. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
Langston Hughes
William Butler Yeats
Sonnet 18
Mark Twain
7. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
Ruth Avi
Alice In Wonderland
Ernest Hemingway
Walt Whitman
8. 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
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Richard Adams
'Civil Disobedience'
9. 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate;' Shakespearean couplet with ABAB CDCE EFEF GG rhyme scheme
JRR Tolkein
Sonnet 18
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
Helen Keller
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Walter Dean Myers
Washington Irving
11. Wrote Holes
Holes
Louis Sacher
Stephen Crane
Madeline L'Engle
12. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
Edgar Allan Poe
Little Women
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Gary Paulson
13. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
Washington Irving
Stephen Crane
Farenheit 451
William Golding
14. Wrote Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
Daniel Defoe
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Harper Lee
15. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Maya Angelou
Carl Hiaason
Emily Bronte
16. 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
Lewis Carroll
Helen Keller
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Call of the Wild
17. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Elizabeth George Speare
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sharon Creech
William Shakespeare
18. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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19. Wrote Charlotte's Web
SE Hinton
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Langston Hughes
EB White
20. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism
Patricia Maclachlan
The Pigman
Gary Paulson
Lord Byron
21. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Mary Downing Hahn
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Caroline Cooney
Countee Cullen
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
Moby Dick
Stephen Crane
Virgil
Madeline L'Engle
23. Wrote The House on Mango Street
1984
Watership Down
Sandra Cisneros
Caroline Cooney
24. 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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25. Wrote Sounder
William Armstrong
Charlotte Bronte
Macbeth
Christopher Paul Curtis
26. 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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27. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Emily Dickinson
Jane Eyre
Anne Frank
28. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Frederick Douglass
Mary Downing Hahn
William Golding
29. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Karen Hesse
William Armstrong
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Elizabeth George Speare
30. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
Aurora Leigh
Louis Sacher
Nancy Farmer
HG Wells
31. Wrote The Awakening - The Storm; feminist author of the 20th century; born in St. Louis - Missouri
Kate Chopin
The Outsiders
Karen Hesse
Jane Austen
32. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
Nancy Farmer
Aurora Leigh
HG Wells
William Armstrong
33. Wrote Out of the Dust
The Call of the Wild
Mark Twain
Karen Hesse
William Armstrong
34. 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
Richard Adams
Lewis Carroll
Karen Hesse
Animal Farm
35. Wrote Ethan Frome
Virgil
Edith Wharton
Scott O'Dell
Ralph Waldo Emerson
36. An impoverished young woman (Jane) struggles to maintain her autonomy in the face of oppression - prejudice - and love; Gothic novel - bildungsroman - social portest novel
James Joyce
Richard Adams
Jane Eyre
Watership Down
37. 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
The Red Badge of Courage
Crime and Punishment
Mildred Taylor
Not Without Laughter
38. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Charles Dickens
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Lois Lowry
Avi
39. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Countee Cullen
Christopher Marlowe
Lois Lowry
40. 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
Leo Tolstoy
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Emily Bronte
41. 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.
Sylvia Plath
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Aeneid
Anna Karenina
42. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
Mildred Taylor
Willa Cather
William Shakespeare
Frankenstein
43. 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
Mark Twain
Mildred Taylor
'Civil Disobedience'
44. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Leo Tolstoy
Beloved
Emily Dickinson
1984
45. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Johann David Wyss
Kate Chopin
Macbeth
46. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty
Beloved
George Orwell
Lord of the Flies
Animal Farm
47. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
Robert Frost
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edgar Allan Poe
48. Wrote The Outsiders
The Catcher in the Rye
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Willa Cather
SE Hinton
49. 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
Stephen Crane
Emily Dickinson
Robinson Crusoe
Maya Angelou
50. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
'Self - Reliance'
Moby Dick
Mark Twain
Nancy Farmer