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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
S.E. Hinton
Nancy Farmer
Madeline L'Engle
William Butler Yeats
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
Farenheit 451
The Pigman
Aurora Leigh
William Shakespeare
3. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
Little Women
The Joy Luck Club
'Civil Disobedience'
Johann David Wyss
4. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
'Self - Reliance'
HG Wells
The Catcher in the Rye
George Orwell
5. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Aurora Leigh
Wendy Towle
The Joy Luck Club
The Catcher in the Rye
6. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Leo Tolstoy
Christopher Paul Curtis
Madeline L'Engle
To Kill a Mockingbird
7. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Kate Chopin
Frederick Douglass
Amy Tan
Jean Craighead George
8. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
Ester Forbes
Frankenstein
Willa Cather
Walt Whitman
9. Wrote Sounder
William Armstrong
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Outsiders
10. Wrote Shiloh
Ruth Avi
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Madeline L'Engle
Crime and Punishment
11. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
Virgil
The Great Gatsby
The Bell Jar
Jean Craighead George
12. Wrote Watership Down
Richard Adams
Sylvia Plath
1984
Robert Frost
13. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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14. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Amy Tan
Henry David Thoreau
Mark Twain
Oscar Wilde
15. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Frankenstein
Lois Lowry
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Frederick Douglass
16. In a futuristic America - a firefighter (Guy Montag) decides to buck society - stop burning books - and start seeking knowledge; themes: censorship - knowledge vs. ignorance - religion as a knowledge giver
Farenheit 451
Patricia Maclachlan
Crime and Punishment
Lord Byron
17. Wrote Walk Two Moons
JD Salinger
S.E. Hinton
Sharon Creech
Lois Lowry
18. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism
Lord Byron
Ernest Hemingway
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sonnet 18
19. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
John Keats
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Elizabeth George Speare
Edgar Allan Poe
20. Wrote Roll of Thunder
Mildred Taylor
Nancy Farmer
Little Women
Jean Craighead George
21. Wrote The Glory Field
Madeline L'Engle
Walter Dean Myers
Karen Hesse
Zora Neale Hurston
22. 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
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Aphra Behn
The Call of the Wild
Beowulf
23. Bildungsroman; after being expelled from a prep school - a 16- year - old boy (Holden Caulfield) goes to NYC - where he reflects on the phoniness of adults and heads towards a nervous breakdown
Christopher Paul Curtis
Avi
1984
The Catcher in the Rye
24. Wrote The Hobbit
Walt Whitman
JRR Tolkein
The Joy Luck Club
The Catcher in the Rye
25. 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.
Little Women
The Aeneid
Walt Whitman
Countee Cullen
26. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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27. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
Macbeth
The Red Badge of Courage
Madeline L'Engle
Toni Morrison
28. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
Sylvia Plath
Lord of the Flies
Anne Bradstreet
Robert Cormier
29. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Holes
Moby Dick
The Pigman
Christopher Paul Curtis
30. 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
Louisa May Alcott
Edgar Allan Poe
'In Reference to her Children'
The Outsiders
31. Wrote 'Any Human to Another -' 'Color -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl;' American Romantic poet; leading African - American poets of his time; associated with generation of poets of the Harlem Renaissance
William Armstrong
Christopher Marlowe
Countee Cullen
Jane Eyre
32. Wrote Night
Nancy Farmer
Anne Bradstreet
Elie Wiesel
The Joy Luck Club
33. Wrote Hatchet
Herman Melville
Walt Whitman
Gary Paulson
Helen Keller
34. Wrote Doctor Faustus
William Shakespeare
Mary Shelley
Christopher Marlowe
HG Wells
35. Wrote Jane Eyre
The Great Gatsby
William Armstrong
Charlotte Bronte
The Giver
36. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
Jane Austen
Oscar Wilde
Jean Craighead George
Lewis Carroll
37. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
Washington Irving
Richard Adams
S.E. Hinton
The Bell Jar
38. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Helen Keller
John Keats
Ray Bradbury
Oscar Wilde
39. heroic fantasy novel about a small group of British rabbits; Fiver - a young runt rabbit who is a seer - receives a frightening vision of his warren's imminent destruction
Alice In Wonderland
Scott O'Dell
Amy Tan
Watership Down
40. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
Helen Keller
The Red Badge of Courage
Louisa May Alcott
Crime and Punishment
41. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
Frederick Douglass
Sonnet 18
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Percy Bysshe Shelley
42. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Anne Frank
Oscar Wilde
Emily Dickinson
Jerry Spinelli
43. 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
Animal Farm
Christopher Marlowe
Mary Downing Hahn
Jack London
44. 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
Jerry Spinelli
TS Eliot
Anne Bradstreet
45. Wrote Maniac Magee
Jerry Spinelli
The Call of the Wild
Sylvia Plath
Aphra Behn
46. 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
Christopher Marlowe
Ray Bradbury
The Joy Luck Club
Not Without Laughter
47. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
Caroline Cooney
Little Women
Christopher Marlowe
Frederick Douglass
48. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist
Henry David Thoreau
James Joyce
Aurora Leigh
Walter Dean Myers
49. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Johann David Wyss
Charlotte Bronte
Jerry Spinelli
Fyodor Dostoevsky
50. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Anna Karenina
'Civil Disobedience'
Karen Hesse
Amy Tan