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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote Out of the Dust
Harper Lee
Karen Hesse
Nancy Farmer
Mary Shelley
2. 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
Amy Tan
Daniel Defoe
Sylvia Plath
3. 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
Sandra Cisneros
Animal Farm
The Joy Luck Club
4. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Leo Tolstoy
Daniel Defoe
Anne Frank
Frankenstein
5. 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
Scott O'Dell
Sandra Cisneros
William Golding
Edgar Allan Poe
6. 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
The Outsiders
Robert Frost
Countee Cullen
Mildred Taylor
7. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Patterson
James Joyce
Leo Tolstoy
Zora Neale Hurston
8. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Butler Yeats
Frederick Douglass
Mary Shelley
9. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
Robert Cormier
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Geoffrey Chaucer
1984
10. 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
S.E. Hinton
Henry David Thoreau
Crime and Punishment
Willa Cather
11. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
Jack London
Edith Wharton
The Outsiders
Little Women
12. Wrote Doctor Faustus
David Copperfield
Christopher Marlowe
Frederick Douglass
Toni Morrison
13. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Zora Neale Hurston
The Call of the Wild
Caroline Cooney
The Great Gatsby
14. Wrote The Yearling
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Countee Cullen
Daniel Defoe
Crime and Punishment
15. Wrote Night
Elie Wiesel
Helen Keller
Edith Wharton
William Golding
16. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe
William Armstrong
Sylvia Plath
Jane Austen
Beloved
17. 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
Sandra Cisneros
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Moby Dick
18. Wrote Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
Sharon Creech
Virgil
TS Eliot
19. 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
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ester Forbes
Avi
The Call of the Wild
20. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
William Golding
Geoffrey Chaucer
Maya Angelou
SE Hinton
21. 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
Christopher Marlowe
William Wordsworth
The Great Gatsby
Sandra Cisneros
22. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Daniel Defoe
Amy Tan
Langston Hughes
'In Reference to her Children'
23. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
TS Eliot
Louisa May Alcott
Oscar Wilde
Kate Dicamillo
24. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker
Emily Bronte
1984
Zora Neale Hurston
Ralph Waldo Emerson
25. Wrote The Glory Field
Ray Bradbury
Gary Paulson
Lewis Carroll
Walter Dean Myers
26. Wrote The Outsiders
The Bell Jar
SE Hinton
Virgil
1984
27. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
Walter Dean Myers
William Golding
28. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Lord Byron
Anna Karenina
Langston Hughes
Alice Walker
29. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Caroline Cooney
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Anna Karenina
Charles Dickens
30. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty
Lord of the Flies
Karen Hesse
Charles Dickens
Stephen Crane
31. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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32. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Mary Downing Hahn
Maya Angelou
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Ben Mikaelson
33. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Washington Irving
Carl Hiaason
SE Hinton
Herman Melville
34. 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'
Karen Hesse
Wendy Towle
Ernest Hemingway
'In Reference to her Children'
35. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
William Shakespeare
Mildred Taylor
Jack London
Scott O'Dell
36. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wendy Towle
Edgar Allan Poe
Watership Down
37. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
Louis Sacher
Henry David Thoreau
The Red Badge of Courage
Aphra Behn
38. Wrote The House on Mango Street
Daniel Defoe
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Madeline L'Engle
Sandra Cisneros
39. set in modern times and focuses on the current circumstances of Stanley Yelnats - an unfortunate - unlucky young man who is sent to Camp Green Lake for a crime he didn't commit
Macbeth
Holes
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frankenstein
40. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
Jerry Spinelli
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Frankenstein
Walt Whitman
41. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
Ray Bradbury
Farenheit 451
Willa Cather
Amy Tan
42. 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
Sylvia Plath
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Caroline Cooney
43. Wrote The Outsiders
Willa Cather
Sonnet 18
Jack London
S.E. Hinton
44. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
S.E. Hinton
Frankenstein
James Joyce
Geoffrey Chaucer
45. Wrote The Aeneid
Ernest Hemingway
The Red Badge of Courage
Virgil
Watership Down
46. 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;
Avi
The Giver
'Civil Disobedience'
Percy Bysshe Shelley
47. Wrote Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Leo Tolstoy
Christopher Paul Curtis
Willa Cather
48. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
Herman Melville
Langston Hughes
Frankenstein
Kate Dicamillo
49. 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
Richard Adams
'In Reference to her Children'
Leo Tolstoy
50. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Mary Downing Hahn
Aphra Behn
'In Reference to her Children'
Karen Hesse