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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. '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
Charlotte Bronte
Sonnet 18
The Outsiders
Crime and Punishment
2. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Ray Bradbury
Alice In Wonderland
Charlotte Bronte
The Joy Luck Club
3. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Ben Mikaelson
Charlotte Bronte
Washington Irving
4. 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
Ernest Hemingway
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
The Pigman
5. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
William Shakespeare
The Red Badge of Courage
To Kill a Mockingbird
'Self - Reliance'
6. Wrote The Lion - the Witch - and the Wardrobe
CS Lewis
Anna Karenina
Holes
Robert Cormier
7. Wrote Ethan Frome
Kate Dicamillo
The Joy Luck Club
Edith Wharton
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
8. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Patricia Maclachlan
Frederick Douglass
9. 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
To Kill a Mockingbird
Emily Dickinson
Caroline Cooney
10. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Mary Shelley
Patricia Maclachlan
Sharon Creech
Alice In Wonderland
11. Wrote Jane Eyre
Virginia Woolf
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Charlotte Bronte
Macbeth
12. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
James Joyce
The Pigman
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Their Eyes Were Watching God
13. 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
Crime and Punishment
The Pigman
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Jack London
14. 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
Charles Dickens
Sonnet 18
Lois Lowry
15. Wrote The Hobbit
JRR Tolkein
Charles Dickens
Emily Dickinson
JD Salinger
16. Wrote Hatchet
The Aeneid
Sylvia Plath
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Gary Paulson
17. 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'
Walt Whitman
The Bell Jar
Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God
18. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Johann David Wyss
Beowulf
Lord Byron
Oscar Wilde
19. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
'In Reference to her Children'
Louis Sacher
Anne Bradstreet
Katherine Patterson
20. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe
Madeline L'Engle
Beloved
HG Wells
Mildred Taylor
21. Wrote The Yearling
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Henry David Thoreau
Farenheit 451
Avi
22. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Daniel Defoe
Alice Walker
Emily Dickinson
23. Wrote Holes
Ester Forbes
Zora Neale Hurston
Louis Sacher
Lois Lowry
24. Wrote The Glory Field
Walter Dean Myers
Not Without Laughter
David Copperfield
Gary Paulson
25. Wrote Hoot
Anna Karenina
Holes
Farenheit 451
Carl Hiaason
26. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
Kate Dicamillo
Charles Dickens
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To Kill a Mockingbird
27. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
The Great Gatsby
Madeline L'Engle
Jean Craighead George
William Shakespeare
28. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
Elie Wiesel
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville
Charles Dickens
29. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Helen Keller
Louis Sacher
Sharon Creech
Jack London
30. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism
Lord Byron
Robert Cormier
Gary Paulson
Mildred Taylor
31. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
Avi
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Amy Tan
Crime and Punishment
32. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
Farenheit 451
Alice Walker
TS Eliot
Robinson Crusoe
33. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
Frankenstein
Anne Bradstreet
Lois Lowry
The Red Badge of Courage
34. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
William Wordsworth
Frederick Douglass
The Giver
Avi
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
Robinson Crusoe
Edith Wharton
Sonnet 18
Virgil
36. Wrote Night
Virginia Woolf
The Red Badge of Courage
Elie Wiesel
Walt Whitman
37. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Ruth Avi
Langston Hughes
Virgil
Mary Downing Hahn
38. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
Emily Bronte
Wendy Towle
JRR Tolkein
James Joyce
39. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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40. Wrote Maniac Magee
Jerry Spinelli
Robert Cormier
Moby Dick
Paul Zindel
41. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Alice Walker
Edith Wharton
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lewis Carroll
42. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Ruth Avi
Sharon Creech
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Willa Cather
43. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
James Joyce
Toni Morrison
Anne Bradstreet
Jane Eyre
44. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
Willa Cather
1984
Charlotte Bronte
Patricia Maclachlan
45. Wrote Johnny Tremain
Ester Forbes
Little Women
William Shakespeare
William Butler Yeats
46. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
The Bell Jar
Little Women
SE Hinton
Edith Wharton
47. Wrote Shiloh
Gary Paulson
Karen Hesse
Aphra Behn
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
48. 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
The Call of the Wild
Stephen Crane
SE Hinton
Aphra Behn
49. 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
Christopher Paul Curtis
Edgar Allan Poe
Ray Bradbury
Little Women
50. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
Virgil
Anna Karenina
Willa Cather
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings