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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote Watership Down
Richard Adams
EB White
Mildred Taylor
Percy Bysshe Shelley
2. Wrote Out of the Dust
Christopher Paul Curtis
James Joyce
Karen Hesse
Walt Whitman
3. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Mary Shelley
Sylvia Plath
Scott O'Dell
William Shakespeare
4. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Jane Eyre
Caroline Cooney
Leo Tolstoy
Frederick Douglass
5. 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
Kate Chopin
Charles Dickens
Robinson Crusoe
Moby Dick
6. Wrote Charlotte's Web
'Civil Disobedience'
Langston Hughes
EB White
William Butler Yeats
7. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
Animal Farm
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
William Armstrong
To Kill a Mockingbird
8. 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
Frederick Douglass
The Pigman
Walter Dean Myers
Christopher Marlowe
9. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Amy Tan
Crime and Punishment
Herman Melville
Sandra Cisneros
10. Wrote The Chocolate War
TS Eliot
Emily Dickinson
'Civil Disobedience'
Robert Cormier
11. 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
David Copperfield
Karen Hesse
Beloved
William Shakespeare
12. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
CS Lewis
The Outsiders
Henry David Thoreau
Willa Cather
13. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edith Wharton
Mildred Taylor
Washington Irving
14. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
Wendy Towle
James Joyce
Mary Downing Hahn
Alice Walker
15. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
The Great Gatsby
Anne Frank
Paul Zindel
Oscar Wilde
16. Wrote The Glory Field
The Joy Luck Club
Avi
Walter Dean Myers
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
17. 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
Little Women
Ernest Hemingway
Henry David Thoreau
Frankenstein
18. 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
Holes
Stephen Crane
Christopher Marlowe
Scott O'Dell
19. 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
Leo Tolstoy
The Catcher in the Rye
'Self - Reliance'
William Wordsworth
20. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
'Civil Disobedience'
The Bell Jar
Jean Craighead George
John Keats
21. Wrote Doctor Faustus
Aphra Behn
Christopher Marlowe
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Richard Adams
22. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Kate Chopin
The Bell Jar
Fyodor Dostoevsky
23. Wrote Sonnet 18 - Hamlet - and Macbeth; greatest playwright who ever lived - prolific poet - known for sonnets
Lord Byron
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
William Shakespeare
Kate Dicamillo
24. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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25. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
Edith Wharton
Frederick Douglass
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Sharon Creech
26. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
Edith Wharton
Elie Wiesel
Frankenstein
Frederick Douglass
27. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
William Golding
Henry David Thoreau
JD Salinger
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
28. 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
Lois Lowry
Zora Neale Hurston
Edgar Allan Poe
29. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Mildred Taylor
Stephen Crane
The Outsiders
Toni Morrison
30. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Ray Bradbury
Johann David Wyss
Alice Walker
Walt Whitman
31. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Geoffrey Chaucer
Mildred Taylor
Avi
Percy Bysshe Shelley
32. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Frederick Douglass
Aphra Behn
Avi
Fyodor Dostoevsky
33. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Charles Dickens
Aurora Leigh
Charlotte Bronte
34. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
Louis Sacher
Lord Byron
Jack London
James Joyce
35. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Richard Adams
Sharon Creech
Wendy Towle
Paul Zindel
36. Wrote The House on Mango Street
Maya Angelou
Sandra Cisneros
Elie Wiesel
The Picture of Dorian Gray
37. 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
James Joyce
Lewis Carroll
SE Hinton
Crime and Punishment
38. Wrote The Aeneid
Ester Forbes
Ernest Hemingway
Virgil
Sylvia Plath
39. 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
Not Without Laughter
The Call of the Wild
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Frederick Douglass
40. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Not Without Laughter
S.E. Hinton
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
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Macbeth
Charlotte Bronte
Sandra Cisneros
42. Wrote Maniac Magee
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jerry Spinelli
Robinson Crusoe
Gary Paulson
43. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Robert Cormier
The Catcher in the Rye
Lord of the Flies
Christopher Paul Curtis
44. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
HG Wells
Geoffrey Chaucer
Emily Bronte
Lewis Carroll
45. 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
Harper Lee
Countee Cullen
Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Civil Disobedience'
46. A great warrior - goes to Denmark on a successful mission to kill Grendel; he returns home to Geatland - where he becomes king and slays a dragon before dying; poem; alliterative verse - elegy - small scale heroic epic; author unknown; setting around
David Copperfield
William Armstrong
Beowulf
Louis Sacher
47. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
S.E. Hinton
George Orwell
Geoffrey Chaucer
Nathaniel Hawthorne
48. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
Sandra Cisneros
Patricia Maclachlan
Mildred Taylor
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
49. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Maya Angelou
Louisa May Alcott
Caroline Cooney
50. Wrote Johnny Tremain
Sonnet 18
Ester Forbes
Edgar Allan Poe
Lord Byron