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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote The Yearling
Louis Sacher
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Avi
Charlotte Bronte
2. Wrote Night
Anna Karenina
Mark Twain
Elie Wiesel
Nathaniel Hawthorne
3. 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
Frankenstein
Richard Adams
JRR Tolkein
Stephen Crane
4. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Avi
The Call of the Wild
Charlotte Bronte
HG Wells
5. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
Louisa May Alcott
Willa Cather
Wendy Towle
Ruth Avi
6. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Johann David Wyss
Jerry Spinelli
Sonnet 18
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
7. 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
Frederick Douglass
Jerry Spinelli
SE Hinton
8. 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
Richard Adams
Edgar Allan Poe
Robert Frost
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
9. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty
Jane Eyre
Lord of the Flies
The Giver
Elizabeth George Speare
10. Wrote The House on Mango Street
Holes
Sandra Cisneros
Ernest Hemingway
Ralph Waldo Emerson
11. Wrote The Great Gatsby
John Keats
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
Maya Angelou
12. 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
Emily Dickinson
Jean Craighead George
Countee Cullen
The Picture of Dorian Gray
13. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
Ernest Hemingway
HG Wells
S.E. Hinton
William Golding
14. Wrote Sounder
William Armstrong
Patricia Maclachlan
Caroline Cooney
Jerry Spinelli
15. Wrote The Lion - the Witch - and the Wardrobe
Zora Neale Hurston
CS Lewis
Edith Wharton
Walter Dean Myers
16. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
Beowulf
Aurora Leigh
Zora Neale Hurston
Alice In Wonderland
17. Wrote A Wrinkle in Time - A Swiftly Tilting Planet - A Wind in the Door - The Small Rain - 24 Days before Christmas
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18. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Avi
Caroline Cooney
The Great Gatsby
19. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Caroline Cooney
Jack London
Mary Downing Hahn
Macbeth
20. Wrote Little Women; American novelist
Louisa May Alcott
Christopher Marlowe
William Golding
Jane Eyre
21. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
Edith Wharton
Helen Keller
Animal Farm
To Kill a Mockingbird
22. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist
Kate Chopin
Ernest Hemingway
Washington Irving
Henry David Thoreau
23. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
Percy Bysshe Shelley
William Butler Yeats
Paul Zindel
Frankenstein
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
The Joy Luck Club
Oscar Wilde
William Golding
Virginia Woolf
25. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
Nancy Farmer
Christopher Marlowe
Lord Byron
HG Wells
26. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
The Joy Luck Club
Paul Zindel
Mary Shelley
Sylvia Plath
27. 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
Christopher Paul Curtis
The Catcher in the Rye
Richard Adams
William Wordsworth
28. 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
The Red Badge of Courage
Farenheit 451
Charlotte Bronte
Herman Melville
29. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
JRR Tolkein
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Charlotte Bronte
James Joyce
30. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Mary Downing Hahn
Animal Farm
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Aphra Behn
31. 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;
Paul Zindel
William Butler Yeats
The Giver
Lewis Carroll
32. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
Elie Wiesel
Robert Cormier
James Joyce
Ben Mikaelson
33. 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
Gary Paulson
Ernest Hemingway
Christopher Marlowe
34. Wrote The Glory Field
The Bell Jar
Ester Forbes
Nancy Farmer
Walter Dean Myers
35. Wrote Roll of Thunder
Walt Whitman
Washington Irving
Willa Cather
Mildred Taylor
36. Wrote Holes
Louis Sacher
Countee Cullen
Harper Lee
Nathaniel Hawthorne
37. Wrote Charlotte's Web
Karen Hesse
Virginia Woolf
Lois Lowry
EB White
38. Wrote Ethan Frome
Watership Down
Edith Wharton
EB White
Madeline L'Engle
39. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Virgil
Sylvia Plath
Alice Walker
Leo Tolstoy
40. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
Mary Downing Hahn
Helen Keller
Jack London
Aphra Behn
41. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Aphra Behn
Jane Eyre
Jane Austen
SE Hinton
42. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
Edgar Allan Poe
Walt Whitman
Mark Twain
Patricia Maclachlan
43. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
Sharon Creech
Charles Dickens
'In Reference to her Children'
Oscar Wilde
44. 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
Ray Bradbury
Animal Farm
The Picture of Dorian Gray
TS Eliot
45. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Avi
The Catcher in the Rye
Alice Walker
46. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Little Women
Maya Angelou
Gary Paulson
47. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Sharon Creech
Aurora Leigh
Moby Dick
Stephen Crane
48. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
Jack London
Jane Austen
SE Hinton
Kate Dicamillo
49. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
Avi
Scott O'Dell
To Kill a Mockingbird
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
50. 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
Elie Wiesel
Not Without Laughter
Katherine Patterson
George Orwell