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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote The Hobbit
JRR Tolkein
Virginia Woolf
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Madeline L'Engle
2. Wrote Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Mansfield Park - et al.
Mary Downing Hahn
Ester Forbes
Jane Austen
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. Wrote 'Wild Nights -- Wild Nights!;' 'I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died -' and 'Because I Could Not Stop For Death --;' 19th century poet; major themes: flowers/gardens - the master poems - morbidity - gospel poems - the undiscovered continent; irregula
Edgar Allan Poe
Elizabeth George Speare
Emily Dickinson
Nathaniel Hawthorne
4. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Herman Melville
William Wordsworth
Countee Cullen
Karen Hesse
5. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Ernest Hemingway
Daniel Defoe
Walter Dean Myers
Elie Wiesel
6. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
'In Reference to her Children'
Watership Down
Frederick Douglass
Ruth Avi
7. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Anne Frank
Alice Walker
The Picture of Dorian Gray
8. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
Macbeth
Percy Bysshe Shelley
TS Eliot
Toni Morrison
9. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Red Badge of Courage
Elizabeth George Speare
Scott O'Dell
10. 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
Lois Lowry
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Red Badge of Courage
11. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
Alice In Wonderland
Crime and Punishment
CS Lewis
Geoffrey Chaucer
12. 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
Robert Frost
Carl Hiaason
Mark Twain
13. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Louis Sacher
Animal Farm
Christopher Paul Curtis
The Pigman
14. 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
'In Reference to her Children'
Herman Melville
Lois Lowry
15. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Elie Wiesel
Carl Hiaason
Charlotte Bronte
Toni Morrison
16. Wrote Out of the Dust
Walt Whitman
Karen Hesse
Robert Frost
The Outsiders
17. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Outsiders
Alice Walker
'Self - Reliance'
S.E. Hinton
18. '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
Sonnet 18
Amy Tan
TS Eliot
S.E. Hinton
19. Gothic novel; a scientist creates a monster - and then abandons it in horror - a decision that leads to disaster and the deaths of nearly everyone he loves
Amy Tan
Anne Frank
Ester Forbes
Frankenstein
20. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Louisa May Alcott
Lois Lowry
Kate Chopin
Nathaniel Hawthorne
21. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Patterson
Ray Bradbury
Macbeth
Mildred Taylor
22. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Langston Hughes
The Call of the Wild
Richard Adams
23. Wrote Night
Edgar Allan Poe
Walt Whitman
Elie Wiesel
Harper Lee
24. Wrote The Glory Field
Mark Twain
Jean Craighead George
Walter Dean Myers
Patricia Maclachlan
25. Wrote Roll of Thunder
Watership Down
Stephen Crane
Robinson Crusoe
Mildred Taylor
26. 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
Ray Bradbury
The Pigman
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Edith Wharton
27. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
Virginia Woolf
Robinson Crusoe
William Armstrong
William Golding
28. 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
EB White
Watership Down
'In Reference to her Children'
Sharon Creech
29. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
TS Eliot
Toni Morrison
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ray Bradbury
30. Wrote Shiloh
Madeline L'Engle
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Beloved
Christopher Paul Curtis
31. 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.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Aeneid
JRR Tolkein
Herman Melville
32. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
Jack London
The Catcher in the Rye
Ray Bradbury
Christopher Marlowe
33. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
Ben Mikaelson
Louisa May Alcott
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Louis Sacher
34. 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
David Copperfield
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Carl Hiaason
Mildred Taylor
35. Wrote Ethan Frome
Ruth Avi
Edith Wharton
Little Women
To Kill a Mockingbird
36. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Walt Whitman
Anna Karenina
David Copperfield
The Pigman
37. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Amy Tan
1984
Walter Dean Myers
Christopher Marlowe
38. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
The Joy Luck Club
The Great Gatsby
Zora Neale Hurston
Nancy Farmer
39. Wrote 'On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer -' 'To Autumn -' and 'Bright Star - Would I Were Stedfast As Thou Art;' English poet in Romantic movement during early 19th century; motifs include departures and reveries - the five sense and art - and th
The Aeneid
Aurora Leigh
John Keats
Watership Down
40. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Karen Hesse
Aphra Behn
The Red Badge of Courage
Charlotte Bronte
41. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
Toni Morrison
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Langston Hughes
Mildred Taylor
42. 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
George Orwell
Animal Farm
Langston Hughes
Edgar Allan Poe
43. 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'
Caroline Cooney
Ernest Hemingway
Jerry Spinelli
Leo Tolstoy
44. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
James Joyce
Holes
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Lord Byron
45. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Maya Angelou
Charles Dickens
William Butler Yeats
Richard Adams
46. Wrote Holes
Harper Lee
Edgar Allan Poe
Louis Sacher
Virgil
47. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Johann David Wyss
Lois Lowry
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ernest Hemingway
48. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird; American author
The Pigman
Gary Paulson
Harper Lee
Aphra Behn
49. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
Ben Mikaelson
Little Women
The Red Badge of Courage
Harper Lee
50. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Scott O'Dell
Leo Tolstoy
Geoffrey Chaucer
William Wordsworth