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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
Robert Frost
John Keats
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Kate Dicamillo
2. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
Helen Keller
Not Without Laughter
Sylvia Plath
F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. Wrote Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Caroline Cooney
Alice Walker
Macbeth
4. 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
Toni Morrison
Watership Down
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walter Dean Myers
5. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist
Watership Down
Henry David Thoreau
'In Reference to her Children'
Robinson Crusoe
6. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
'In Reference to her Children'
Nancy Farmer
Katherine Patterson
The Bell Jar
7. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
William Butler Yeats
Louis Sacher
Lois Lowry
F. Scott Fitzgerald
8. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
The Outsiders
JRR Tolkein
Sharon Creech
The Great Gatsby
9. 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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10. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
Richard Adams
George Orwell
Charles Dickens
Emily Dickinson
11. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
Willa Cather
Mary Downing Hahn
Zora Neale Hurston
Maya Angelou
12. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye
JD Salinger
Beowulf
The Red Badge of Courage
13. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
Not Without Laughter
Kate Dicamillo
Edith Wharton
Ben Mikaelson
14. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
Sylvia Plath
The Joy Luck Club
Anne Frank
Mary Shelley
15. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Sandra Cisneros
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mary Shelley
Emily Bronte
16. 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
Robinson Crusoe
Edith Wharton
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Catcher in the Rye
17. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Richard Adams
John Keats
Sylvia Plath
Jean Craighead George
18. An impoverished young woman (Jane) struggles to maintain her autonomy in the face of oppression - prejudice - and love; Gothic novel - bildungsroman - social portest novel
Charlotte Bronte
The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
Jane Eyre
19. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sharon Creech
The Red Badge of Courage
Jean Craighead George
20. Wrote Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Mansfield Park - et al.
Katherine Patterson
Patricia Maclachlan
Jerry Spinelli
Jane Austen
21. Wrote Sounder
William Armstrong
Willa Cather
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Virgil
22. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Ruth Avi
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Emily Dickinson
JD Salinger
23. Wrote A Farewell to Arms - The Old Man and the Sea - and The Sun Also Rises; American writer and journalist; veteran of WWI - belongs to literary movement called 'The Lost Generation'
Wendy Towle
EB White
Ernest Hemingway
Lois Lowry
24. 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
The Catcher in the Rye
Holes
George Orwell
Mildred Taylor
25. Wrote The Outsiders
Farenheit 451
Edith Wharton
S.E. Hinton
Charles Dickens
26. 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
HG Wells
Beowulf
Amy Tan
Walt Whitman
27. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
Animal Farm
Mildred Taylor
Washington Irving
S.E. Hinton
28. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
Edith Wharton
Anne Bradstreet
Kate Dicamillo
JRR Tolkein
29. Maintains the bird metaphor throughout the poem's ninety - six lines - describing the various 'flights' of five of her children and her concerns about those remaining in the nest
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30. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism
Jack London
Lord Byron
Countee Cullen
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
31. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
Louisa May Alcott
Lois Lowry
Alice In Wonderland
Little Women
32. Wrote Johnny Tremain
Ruth Avi
William Shakespeare
Anne Bradstreet
Ester Forbes
33. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
The Joy Luck Club
Percy Bysshe Shelley
William Wordsworth
Robinson Crusoe
34. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
Charles Dickens
Avi
Robert Cormier
Willa Cather
35. 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
Lord of the Flies
Walter Dean Myers
Farenheit 451
Elizabeth George Speare
36. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Ray Bradbury
Edith Wharton
JRR Tolkein
Wendy Towle
37. 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
TS Eliot
The Outsiders
Gary Paulson
William Golding
38. Wrote Out of the Dust
Karen Hesse
Mary Shelley
Macbeth
Washington Irving
39. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
Zora Neale Hurston
Avi
The Aeneid
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
40. Wrote Charlotte's Web
Anne Frank
Sandra Cisneros
EB White
Edgar Allan Poe
41. Wrote Holes
Willa Cather
SE Hinton
Louis Sacher
Ester Forbes
42. Wrote Hoot
Madeline L'Engle
Carl Hiaason
Frederick Douglass
Zora Neale Hurston
43. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
The Red Badge of Courage
Patricia Maclachlan
1984
Washington Irving
44. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Moby Dick
Robert Frost
Christopher Paul Curtis
Johann David Wyss
45. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker
Carl Hiaason
Frankenstein
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Joy Luck Club
46. 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
Lois Lowry
Lord Byron
Louis Sacher
The Pigman
47. 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.
The Aeneid
The Outsiders
Mildred Taylor
The Bell Jar
48. 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
Virginia Woolf
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Toni Morrison
'In Reference to her Children'
49. 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
Christopher Paul Curtis
Lewis Carroll
Henry David Thoreau
50. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe
Zora Neale Hurston
Beloved
The Catcher in the Rye
Geoffrey Chaucer
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