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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Henry David Thoreau
Caroline Cooney
Daniel Defoe
Richard Adams
2. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
Elizabeth George Speare
William Shakespeare
Amy Tan
HG Wells
3. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
Beowulf
Christopher Marlowe
George Orwell
William Armstrong
4. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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5. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
Ray Bradbury
Virginia Woolf
Alice In Wonderland
Katherine Patterson
6. NOT anti - society or anti - community; presupposes that the mind is initially the subject to an unhappy conformity; calls on individuals to value their own thoughts - opinions - experiences above those presented to them by other individuals - societ
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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;
The Giver
JRR Tolkein
HG Wells
Robert Frost
8. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
Washington Irving
Crime and Punishment
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Mildred Taylor
9. Wrote Jane Eyre
Macbeth
Mildred Taylor
The Giver
Charlotte Bronte
10. 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
Langston Hughes
Watership Down
Macbeth
Geoffrey Chaucer
11. Wrote The Pigman
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Frederick Douglass
Paul Zindel
Robinson Crusoe
12. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Leo Tolstoy
The Giver
Little Women
Lois Lowry
13. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Ray Bradbury
Aphra Behn
JRR Tolkein
The Aeneid
14. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
JD Salinger
Frederick Douglass
Helen Keller
Nathaniel Hawthorne
15. 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
Kate Dicamillo
1984
Willa Cather
Watership Down
16. Wrote The Outsiders
SE Hinton
William Golding
The Catcher in the Rye
S.E. Hinton
17. 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
Carl Hiaason
Elizabeth George Speare
Virginia Woolf
Kate Chopin
18. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Frankenstein
Animal Farm
Amy Tan
Walter Dean Myers
19. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
William Shakespeare
William Butler Yeats
Daniel Defoe
Willa Cather
20. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
Watership Down
Sylvia Plath
EB White
Sonnet 18
21. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
Madeline L'Engle
Stephen Crane
Herman Melville
Jack London
22. 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
Emily Dickinson
Nancy Farmer
Ernest Hemingway
Not Without Laughter
23. Wrote Johnny Tremain
Ester Forbes
Wendy Towle
Sandra Cisneros
The Call of the Wild
24. A group of Chinese mothers and their American - born daughters struggle to communicate and understand each other; four families dipicted Woo - Jong - Hsu - and St. Clair
Beloved
'Civil Disobedience'
The Joy Luck Club
George Orwell
25. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
Helen Keller
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Louis Sacher
26. Wrote Red Badge of Courage; American novelist - short story writer - poet - journalist - raised in NY and NJ; style and technique: naturalism - realism - impressionism; themes: ideals v. realities - spiritual crisis - fears
Jean Craighead George
Paul Zindel
Carl Hiaason
Stephen Crane
27. Wrote Charlotte's Web
The Great Gatsby
Little Women
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
EB White
28. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Ruth Avi
JD Salinger
1984
Watership Down
29. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Mary Shelley
JD Salinger
Ben Mikaelson
The Great Gatsby
30. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Caroline Cooney
Louis Sacher
Mildred Taylor
31. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sharon Creech
Beloved
James Joyce
32. A group of poor kids (greasers) hold their own against a group of rich kids (socials aka socs) - losing two of their own in the process; protagonist: Ponyboy Curtis; bildungsroman; setting 1960s
Frankenstein
Holes
The Outsiders
Washington Irving
33. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
Nancy Farmer
Caroline Cooney
Anne Frank
Edith Wharton
34. 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
Robert Frost
Washington Irving
F. Scott Fitzgerald
'Self - Reliance'
35. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
Karen Hesse
Mildred Taylor
James Joyce
Langston Hughes
36. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
Mark Twain
William Shakespeare
Anne Frank
William Butler Yeats
37. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
Emily Dickinson
Maya Angelou
The Outsiders
The Bell Jar
38. Wrote The Outsiders
The Joy Luck Club
S.E. Hinton
The Pigman
Helen Keller
39. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
William Golding
Moby Dick
Jean Craighead George
Jane Eyre
40. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Zora Neale Hurston
Jean Craighead George
Johann David Wyss
Jane Eyre
41. Wrote Hatchet
Ben Mikaelson
Ernest Hemingway
Gary Paulson
To Kill a Mockingbird
42. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
Daniel Defoe
To Kill a Mockingbird
Anne Bradstreet
Christopher Marlowe
43. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Johann David Wyss
Lois Lowry
Christopher Paul Curtis
Anne Frank
44. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe
Jean Craighead George
William Shakespeare
Anne Frank
Beloved
45. 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
Anna Karenina
The Pigman
Watership Down
Edgar Allan Poe
46. Wrote The Yearling
Nancy Farmer
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
John Keats
Macbeth
47. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Anna Karenina
Louis Sacher
Aphra Behn
Daniel Defoe
48. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
Charles Dickens
James Joyce
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Carl Hiaason
49. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker
The Catcher in the Rye
Katherine Patterson
Caroline Cooney
Ralph Waldo Emerson
50. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist
Henry David Thoreau
Mary Shelley
The Great Gatsby
Lord of the Flies