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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Amy Tan
Caroline Cooney
Lois Lowry
To Kill a Mockingbird
2. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
The Red Badge of Courage
EB White
Animal Farm
Washington Irving
3. 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
Holes
Patricia Maclachlan
Farenheit 451
The Outsiders
4. Wrote The Great Gatsby
Mary Downing Hahn
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
Farenheit 451
Charles Dickens
Patricia Maclachlan
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
6. Wrote The Glory Field
Walter Dean Myers
Not Without Laughter
Anne Bradstreet
TS Eliot
7. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Christopher Marlowe
Wendy Towle
Amy Tan
Moby Dick
8. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
Washington Irving
Herman Melville
The Great Gatsby
Mildred Taylor
9. Bildungsroman; after being expelled from a prep school - a 16- year - old boy (Holden Caulfield) goes to NYC - where he reflects on the phoniness of adults and heads towards a nervous breakdown
Washington Irving
The Catcher in the Rye
Anne Bradstreet
Henry David Thoreau
10. Wrote Shiloh
The Catcher in the Rye
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Karen Hesse
Farenheit 451
11. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
TS Eliot
Mary Downing Hahn
William Golding
Ester Forbes
12. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
Holes
TS Eliot
EB White
Toni Morrison
13. 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
Watership Down
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Stephen Crane
David Copperfield
14. Wrote Little Women; American novelist
Patricia Maclachlan
Ralph Waldo Emerson
'Civil Disobedience'
Louisa May Alcott
15. 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
Karen Hesse
Robert Frost
Walter Dean Myers
JD Salinger
16. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
Henry David Thoreau
George Orwell
SE Hinton
Carl Hiaason
17. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
Little Women
Carl Hiaason
Christopher Paul Curtis
TS Eliot
18. Wrote Charlotte's Web
EB White
Kate Chopin
Emily Bronte
SE Hinton
19. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
Frankenstein
Maya Angelou
JD Salinger
Mary Shelley
20. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Sharon Creech
Watership Down
Madeline L'Engle
Caroline Cooney
21. Wrote Roll of Thunder
Mildred Taylor
Beowulf
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Henry David Thoreau
22. 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
Johann David Wyss
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Washington Irving
Langston Hughes
23. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
William Golding
Maya Angelou
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
'Self - Reliance'
24. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Mildred Taylor
Aphra Behn
Stephen Crane
Not Without Laughter
25. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Sharon Creech
JD Salinger
Aurora Leigh
Fyodor Dostoevsky
26. 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
Jack London
The Joy Luck Club
Watership Down
1984
27. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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28. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
Lois Lowry
Sandra Cisneros
Walt Whitman
Aurora Leigh
29. 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
Stephen Crane
Aurora Leigh
Anne Bradstreet
Katherine Patterson
30. Wrote Holes
The Pigman
Louis Sacher
Maya Angelou
EB White
31. Wrote The Outsiders
William Armstrong
S.E. Hinton
William Wordsworth
CS Lewis
32. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
Ben Mikaelson
Carl Hiaason
Sylvia Plath
Zora Neale Hurston
33. Wrote The Awakening - The Storm; feminist author of the 20th century; born in St. Louis - Missouri
William Golding
Kate Chopin
Beloved
Virgil
34. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
John Keats
Richard Adams
The Bell Jar
Lord Byron
35. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
Sonnet 18
Alice In Wonderland
Virginia Woolf
Patricia Maclachlan
36. A Trojan (Aeneas) destined to found Rome - undergoes many trials on land and sea during his journey to Italy - finally defeating the Latin Turnus and avenging the murder of Pallas.
William Wordsworth
The Aeneid
Edgar Allan Poe
1984
37. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Kate Dicamillo
Amy Tan
1984
Jane Eyre
38. 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
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Not Without Laughter
Jane Eyre
EB White
39. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Avi
TS Eliot
To Kill a Mockingbird
40. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Carl Hiaason
Daniel Defoe
Johann David Wyss
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
41. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
Frankenstein
Lewis Carroll
The Call of the Wild
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
42. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Frederick Douglass
Kate Dicamillo
To Kill a Mockingbird
43. Wrote The Chocolate War
Lewis Carroll
Carl Hiaason
Robert Cormier
Mary Shelley
44. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
JD Salinger
The Pigman
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Alice Walker
45. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
TS Eliot
Karen Hesse
Robinson Crusoe
Anne Frank
46. 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate;' Shakespearean couplet with ABAB CDCE EFEF GG rhyme scheme
Sonnet 18
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Washington Irving
1984
47. Wrote Jane Eyre
William Armstrong
Crime and Punishment
Charlotte Bronte
Lewis Carroll
48. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
Zora Neale Hurston
The Great Gatsby
Mary Shelley
Oscar Wilde
49. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
Robinson Crusoe
Ray Bradbury
Aurora Leigh
Frederick Douglass
50. 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
Beowulf
Countee Cullen
William Armstrong
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling