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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. 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
Frankenstein
Lewis Carroll
Elizabeth George Speare
Jane Eyre
2. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Wendy Towle
Aurora Leigh
Daniel Defoe
John Keats
3. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Jane Austen
HG Wells
Henry David Thoreau
Toni Morrison
4. Wrote Maniac Magee
Louis Sacher
CS Lewis
The Giver
Jerry Spinelli
5. 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
Zora Neale Hurston
Countee Cullen
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Paul Zindel
6. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
The Pigman
Nancy Farmer
Geoffrey Chaucer
Emily Dickinson
7. 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
Toni Morrison
Gary Paulson
HG Wells
Emily Dickinson
8. Wrote Sounder
Gary Paulson
Johann David Wyss
William Armstrong
Elizabeth George Speare
9. Book written by George Orwell - announced an insane world of dehumanization through terror in which the individual was systematically obliterated by an all - power elite; key phrases: Big Brother - doublethink - Newspeak - the Ministry of Peace...Tru
Patricia Maclachlan
1984
Frankenstein
Caroline Cooney
10. Wrote Out of the Dust
Karen Hesse
To Kill a Mockingbird
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Charles Dickens
11. 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
Watership Down
Farenheit 451
Ester Forbes
Robert Frost
12. Wrote Holes
Karen Hesse
Richard Adams
Louis Sacher
Stephen Crane
13. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
Katherine Patterson
Kate Dicamillo
Alice In Wonderland
Mark Twain
14. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
Nancy Farmer
Louis Sacher
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Washington Irving
15. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
Watership Down
William Butler Yeats
Kate Chopin
Zora Neale Hurston
16. Wrote Night
The Call of the Wild
Elie Wiesel
David Copperfield
Henry David Thoreau
17. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
TS Eliot
Frederick Douglass
Elie Wiesel
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
18. 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
Elizabeth George Speare
The Pigman
Watership Down
Emily Bronte
19. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
'In Reference to her Children'
James Joyce
Oscar Wilde
Emily Bronte
20. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
Charles Dickens
Anne Bradstreet
David Copperfield
Kate Dicamillo
21. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Lord of the Flies
Caroline Cooney
Anne Bradstreet
William Butler Yeats
22. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
HG Wells
Walt Whitman
Edith Wharton
Anne Bradstreet
23. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
The Call of the Wild
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Karen Hesse
Willa Cather
24. Wrote The Yearling
Kate Chopin
Lewis Carroll
Christopher Marlowe
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
25. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
Mildred Taylor
The Bell Jar
Henry David Thoreau
Beowulf
26. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
Jerry Spinelli
Sylvia Plath
Robert Cormier
Helen Keller
27. Wrote Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
William Armstrong
Emily Dickinson
Toni Morrison
28. Wrote Johnny Tremain
Ester Forbes
William Wordsworth
The Outsiders
William Armstrong
29. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Daniel Defoe
JD Salinger
Amy Tan
30. Wrote Mrs. Dalloway - Night and Day - The Voyage Out - and Jacob's Room; English novelist and essayist; one of the foremost modernist literary figures of 20th century
Virginia Woolf
George Orwell
Langston Hughes
Crime and Punishment
31. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Ruth Avi
Robert Cormier
Louis Sacher
Fyodor Dostoevsky
32. 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
Walter Dean Myers
Moby Dick
Holes
Edith Wharton
33. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
Washington Irving
Scott O'Dell
Anna Karenina
Zora Neale Hurston
34. Wrote Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton
Mildred Taylor
Avi
William Wordsworth
35. Wrote The Pigman
Christopher Marlowe
Paul Zindel
The Aeneid
Madeline L'Engle
36. 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
Caroline Cooney
F. Scott Fitzgerald
JD Salinger
Holes
37. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Charles Dickens
Karen Hesse
Toni Morrison
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
38. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Jane Eyre
Charles Dickens
Sharon Creech
Ruth Avi
39. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
JD Salinger
1984
Charles Dickens
Charlotte Bronte
40. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird; American author
Harper Lee
Mildred Taylor
Animal Farm
Frederick Douglass
41. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
Virgil
Sonnet 18
Sylvia Plath
To Kill a Mockingbird
42. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
Sonnet 18
Sylvia Plath
Beloved
Frederick Douglass
43. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
Aurora Leigh
Patricia Maclachlan
Farenheit 451
The Giver
44. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Farenheit 451
Macbeth
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Johann David Wyss
45. Wrote Wuthering Heights
Jack London
Sharon Creech
Emily Bronte
David Copperfield
46. Wrote The Hobbit
Ray Bradbury
Stephen Crane
Robert Frost
JRR Tolkein
47. 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
Alice In Wonderland
Lord of the Flies
The Call of the Wild
Jane Austen
48. Wrote The Aeneid
Jane Eyre
Virgil
David Copperfield
Amy Tan
49. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
To Kill a Mockingbird
Alice In Wonderland
Madeline L'Engle
Oscar Wilde
50. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Elie Wiesel
Emily Dickinson
Mark Twain