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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
The Joy Luck Club
The Red Badge of Courage
James Joyce
David Copperfield
2. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
Jack London
Farenheit 451
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
William Wordsworth
3. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
JD Salinger
Zora Neale Hurston
Leo Tolstoy
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
4. Wrote Hatchet
HG Wells
Sylvia Plath
Gary Paulson
Frankenstein
5. Wrote Maniac Magee
Langston Hughes
Crime and Punishment
The Bell Jar
Jerry Spinelli
6. A man is shipwrecked on an island - where he lives for more than 20 years - fending off cannibals and creating a pleasant life for himself
Caroline Cooney
Robinson Crusoe
Helen Keller
TS Eliot
7. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Avi
Anne Frank
Herman Melville
Gary Paulson
8. Wrote The Aeneid
Virgil
Ruth Avi
JRR Tolkein
CS Lewis
9. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
The Giver
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Patricia Maclachlan
Wendy Towle
10. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
Geoffrey Chaucer
Elizabeth George Speare
Lewis Carroll
Ralph Waldo Emerson
11. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
Alice In Wonderland
Aurora Leigh
'In Reference to her Children'
Herman Melville
12. 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
Beloved
Watership Down
Not Without Laughter
The Bell Jar
13. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Robert Cormier
Charles Dickens
Beowulf
14. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
TS Eliot
Little Women
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Willa Cather
15. 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
Sonnet 18
Mildred Taylor
Moby Dick
JRR Tolkein
16. Wrote Roll of Thunder
Richard Adams
S.E. Hinton
Mildred Taylor
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
17. 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
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Geoffrey Chaucer
William Butler Yeats
The Call of the Wild
18. Wrote Hoot
Carl Hiaason
Richard Adams
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Zora Neale Hurston
19. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
Louisa May Alcott
Sharon Creech
Kate Dicamillo
Macbeth
20. Wrote Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Mansfield Park - et al.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Call of the Wild
Jane Austen
Scott O'Dell
21. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
S.E. Hinton
Patricia Maclachlan
Mark Twain
The Joy Luck Club
22. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
Zora Neale Hurston
F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Wordsworth
Lord Byron
23. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Mary Downing Hahn
The Giver
Aphra Behn
Maya Angelou
24. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism
Charles Dickens
Lord Byron
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Daniel Defoe
25. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Toni Morrison
Christopher Paul Curtis
Paul Zindel
Farenheit 451
26. 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
Alice Walker
Kate Chopin
Harper Lee
The Outsiders
27. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
The Giver
Jean Craighead George
Aphra Behn
Christopher Paul Curtis
28. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
TS Eliot
Farenheit 451
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ben Mikaelson
29. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
Not Without Laughter
Nancy Farmer
Christopher Marlowe
SE Hinton
30. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
1984
Stephen Crane
Maya Angelou
To Kill a Mockingbird
31. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
David Copperfield
Charlotte Bronte
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jane Eyre
32. Wrote The Outsiders
SE Hinton
Aphra Behn
Lewis Carroll
Little Women
33. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird; American author
Louisa May Alcott
Aphra Behn
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Harper Lee
34. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
Virgil
Oscar Wilde
Mildred Taylor
Aurora Leigh
35. 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
Sylvia Plath
John Keats
Leo Tolstoy
The Outsiders
36. Wrote The Glory Field
Stephen Crane
Harper Lee
Frederick Douglass
Walter Dean Myers
37. Wrote The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton
Nancy Farmer
TS Eliot
Ester Forbes
38. Wrote Night
JRR Tolkein
Macbeth
Elie Wiesel
Lord Byron
39. 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
The Pigman
Carl Hiaason
EB White
Katherine Patterson
40. 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
Scott O'Dell
1984
Animal Farm
Stephen Crane
41. 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
Charlotte Bronte
'Self - Reliance'
Ernest Hemingway
42. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Jerry Spinelli
Kate Chopin
William Golding
Anna Karenina
43. 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
Mildred Taylor
Animal Farm
Their Eyes Were Watching God
'In Reference to her Children'
44. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Call of the Wild
Christopher Marlowe
EB White
45. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
William Armstrong
Crime and Punishment
TS Eliot
Johann David Wyss
46. Wrote The Lion - the Witch - and the Wardrobe
SE Hinton
Farenheit 451
Henry David Thoreau
CS Lewis
47. 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
Herman Melville
Countee Cullen
Watership Down
Crime and Punishment
48. Wrote Wuthering Heights
Kate Chopin
Emily Bronte
Jean Craighead George
Robert Cormier
49. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Madeline L'Engle
Mary Shelley
William Golding
50. Wrote Holes
Louis Sacher
Jane Austen
Charlotte Bronte
JD Salinger