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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
Alice In Wonderland
Paul Zindel
Sandra Cisneros
Nancy Farmer
2. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Alice Walker
Caroline Cooney
HG Wells
3. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mildred Taylor
CS Lewis
Mark Twain
The Great Gatsby
4. Wrote The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Langston Hughes
Virgil
JD Salinger
5. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Aphra Behn
Richard Adams
Carl Hiaason
Not Without Laughter
6. Wrote Johnny Tremain
1984
Ester Forbes
John Keats
The Catcher in the Rye
7. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
Elizabeth George Speare
Wendy Towle
Robert Frost
Animal Farm
8. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
Holes
Ernest Hemingway
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Giver
9. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
Charles Dickens
Madeline L'Engle
Harper Lee
Holes
10. 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
Jane Eyre
The Outsiders
Patricia Maclachlan
1984
11. Wrote The Awakening - The Storm; feminist author of the 20th century; born in St. Louis - Missouri
Robert Frost
Kate Chopin
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Anne Bradstreet
12. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Emily Dickinson
'Civil Disobedience'
Toni Morrison
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
13. Wrote Wuthering Heights
The Pigman
Elie Wiesel
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Emily Bronte
14. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Virginia Woolf
David Copperfield
Leo Tolstoy
Avi
15. 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
Louisa May Alcott
Charlotte Bronte
Jerry Spinelli
Edgar Allan Poe
16. Wrote The Pigman
Not Without Laughter
SE Hinton
Henry David Thoreau
Paul Zindel
17. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty
Paul Zindel
Jerry Spinelli
William Butler Yeats
Lord of the Flies
18. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Jean Craighead George
Emily Bronte
Leo Tolstoy
Beloved
19. 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
Farenheit 451
Stephen Crane
Lord Byron
Frankenstein
20. Wrote The Lion - the Witch - and the Wardrobe
Johann David Wyss
Ester Forbes
CS Lewis
Jean Craighead George
21. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
Beloved
Caroline Cooney
Willa Cather
The Joy Luck Club
22. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
Nathaniel Hawthorne
William Wordsworth
William Golding
Watership Down
23. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
Carl Hiaason
'In Reference to her Children'
George Orwell
Herman Melville
24. Wrote Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Mansfield Park - et al.
William Golding
Jane Austen
Kate Chopin
Paul Zindel
25. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Daniel Defoe
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Patricia Maclachlan
'Self - Reliance'
26. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
George Orwell
Moby Dick
Alice Walker
Sandra Cisneros
27. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Christopher Marlowe
Lois Lowry
Louis Sacher
Stephen Crane
28. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
Alice Walker
TS Eliot
Lord of the Flies
Ernest Hemingway
29. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
SE Hinton
Percy Bysshe Shelley
To Kill a Mockingbird
Elizabeth George Speare
30. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
Virginia Woolf
David Copperfield
The Bell Jar
Geoffrey Chaucer
31. 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
Caroline Cooney
Virginia Woolf
Herman Melville
32. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
Macbeth
The Great Gatsby
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Robert Cormier
33. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
Zora Neale Hurston
The Red Badge of Courage
Charles Dickens
Caroline Cooney
34. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
Ruth Avi
Sylvia Plath
Nancy Farmer
William Golding
35. 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
Richard Adams
Lewis Carroll
Virginia Woolf
Kate Chopin
36. Wrote Sounder
Frankenstein
The Bell Jar
Lord Byron
William Armstrong
37. Wrote Night
Elie Wiesel
Mildred Taylor
1984
Anna Karenina
38. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
The Picture of Dorian Gray
'Self - Reliance'
Wendy Towle
Harper Lee
39. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
William Golding
Edgar Allan Poe
Crime and Punishment
Oscar Wilde
40. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Beloved
Ray Bradbury
Sylvia Plath
Ben Mikaelson
41. 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
Langston Hughes
Emily Dickinson
42. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
Paul Zindel
George Orwell
William Armstrong
The Bell Jar
43. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
Daniel Defoe
Maya Angelou
Watership Down
Aurora Leigh
44. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mark Twain
Jack London
James Joyce
45. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
Louisa May Alcott
SE Hinton
John Keats
Sylvia Plath
46. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
Farenheit 451
Kate Dicamillo
John Keats
TS Eliot
47. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
Charles Dickens
Jack London
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Moby Dick
48. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Sonnet 18
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Maya Angelou
William Butler Yeats
49. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
William Wordsworth
The Bell Jar
William Butler Yeats
Louisa May Alcott
50. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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