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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
Richard Adams
The Outsiders
Washington Irving
JD Salinger
2. Wrote Hatchet
Gary Paulson
Elizabeth George Speare
Herman Melville
The Bell Jar
3. Wrote Roll of Thunder
Maya Angelou
Mildred Taylor
Christopher Marlowe
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
4. Wrote Hoot
Not Without Laughter
Walt Whitman
The Catcher in the Rye
Carl Hiaason
5. Wrote Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
Herman Melville
Sandra Cisneros
Christopher Marlowe
6. Wrote Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe
Louis Sacher
EB White
Christopher Paul Curtis
7. 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;
Madeline L'Engle
The Giver
'Civil Disobedience'
Elizabeth George Speare
8. 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'
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Jerry Spinelli
Not Without Laughter
Ernest Hemingway
9. Wrote Sonnet 18 - Hamlet - and Macbeth; greatest playwright who ever lived - prolific poet - known for sonnets
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Virgil
Frankenstein
William Shakespeare
10. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
Anne Bradstreet
Alice In Wonderland
Amy Tan
JRR Tolkein
11. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Oscar Wilde
Harper Lee
Walter Dean Myers
Toni Morrison
12. 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
George Orwell
Holes
Sandra Cisneros
'In Reference to her Children'
13. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
William Golding
Ben Mikaelson
Toni Morrison
Anna Karenina
14. 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
George Orwell
Macbeth
Aurora Leigh
Ester Forbes
15. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
Walt Whitman
Edgar Allan Poe
JD Salinger
Holes
16. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Farenheit 451
Gary Paulson
Sharon Creech
Sylvia Plath
17. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Oscar Wilde
Scott O'Dell
Stephen Crane
Lewis Carroll
18. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
Christopher Marlowe
Jack London
Caroline Cooney
Leo Tolstoy
19. Wrote The Yearling
The Catcher in the Rye
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
The Picture of Dorian Gray
William Butler Yeats
20. 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
The Bell Jar
Animal Farm
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Beowulf
21. 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
Helen Keller
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Aurora Leigh
David Copperfield
22. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alice In Wonderland
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Red Badge of Courage
23. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
CS Lewis
Mary Downing Hahn
Frankenstein
Jane Eyre
24. 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
Aurora Leigh
Langston Hughes
Holes
Wendy Towle
25. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Christopher Paul Curtis
David Copperfield
Lord Byron
Ruth Avi
26. 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
Virginia Woolf
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Catcher in the Rye
Jack London
27. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Toni Morrison
The Aeneid
Aphra Behn
Geoffrey Chaucer
28. Wrote The Glory Field
Walter Dean Myers
The Outsiders
Elie Wiesel
Jack London
29. 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
The Great Gatsby
The Call of the Wild
Madeline L'Engle
JD Salinger
30. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty
Madeline L'Engle
'In Reference to her Children'
Lord of the Flies
Lewis Carroll
31. '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
William Wordsworth
JRR Tolkein
Frankenstein
32. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Paul Zindel
Ruth Avi
Avi
Beowulf
33. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Jane Austen
Countee Cullen
Jean Craighead George
Beloved
34. Wrote Ethan Frome
Ray Bradbury
Louisa May Alcott
Edith Wharton
SE Hinton
35. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
S.E. Hinton
Charles Dickens
Nancy Farmer
James Joyce
36. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
David Copperfield
Aurora Leigh
Little Women
William Golding
37. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
The Giver
David Copperfield
Ester Forbes
Mildred Taylor
38. Wrote Charlotte's Web
The Call of the Wild
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sandra Cisneros
EB White
39. Wrote The Chocolate War
Robert Cormier
Lewis Carroll
SE Hinton
Johann David Wyss
40. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird; American author
Geoffrey Chaucer
Ray Bradbury
William Golding
Harper Lee
41. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Jane Austen
1984
Ben Mikaelson
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
42. 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
Frankenstein
Robert Cormier
Lois Lowry
43. 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
William Wordsworth
Kate Chopin
SE Hinton
Avi
44. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
William Wordsworth
Geoffrey Chaucer
Stephen Crane
Zora Neale Hurston
45. Wrote Watership Down
Wendy Towle
Frederick Douglass
Lord of the Flies
Richard Adams
46. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
Patricia Maclachlan
Sylvia Plath
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Caroline Cooney
47. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Ray Bradbury
Beowulf
'In Reference to her Children'
John Keats
48. 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
Avi
Countee Cullen
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Ben Mikaelson
49. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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50. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
Kate Dicamillo
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Joy Luck Club
Animal Farm
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