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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
Lord Byron
Kate Chopin
Aurora Leigh
Kate Dicamillo
2. 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
Frankenstein
Lewis Carroll
Washington Irving
Anna Karenina
3. Wrote Sounder
William Armstrong
The Catcher in the Rye
Macbeth
Ernest Hemingway
4. Wrote The Chocolate War
Willa Cather
EB White
Robert Cormier
William Armstrong
5. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Ray Bradbury
The Aeneid
Christopher Paul Curtis
Caroline Cooney
6. 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
Their Eyes Were Watching God
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Sandra Cisneros
David Copperfield
7. Wrote The House on Mango Street
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jane Austen
Sandra Cisneros
Carl Hiaason
8. Wrote Johnny Tremain
Robert Frost
Jane Austen
Ester Forbes
The Aeneid
9. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
Not Without Laughter
Christopher Marlowe
To Kill a Mockingbird
William Golding
10. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Mary Downing Hahn
'In Reference to her Children'
Ester Forbes
CS Lewis
11. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker
Frankenstein
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Joy Luck Club
F. Scott Fitzgerald
12. Wrote Maniac Magee
Mildred Taylor
Alice Walker
Lord of the Flies
Jerry Spinelli
13. Wrote The Lion - the Witch - and the Wardrobe
HG Wells
CS Lewis
David Copperfield
The Call of the Wild
14. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty
Lord of the Flies
Mildred Taylor
Beowulf
Virginia Woolf
15. Wrote The Hobbit
William Shakespeare
Richard Adams
Jean Craighead George
JRR Tolkein
16. Wrote Out of the Dust
Mary Shelley
Karen Hesse
The Pigman
Louisa May Alcott
17. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Kate Chopin
Anne Frank
The Catcher in the Rye
The Great Gatsby
18. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Jean Craighead George
Daniel Defoe
Ray Bradbury
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
19. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
Frankenstein
Walt Whitman
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Elizabeth George Speare
20. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
Zora Neale Hurston
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Alice In Wonderland
Robert Cormier
21. 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'
George Orwell
Ernest Hemingway
Katherine Patterson
Nancy Farmer
22. Wrote The Glory Field
Virginia Woolf
EB White
Walter Dean Myers
Mildred Taylor
23. 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
Walter Dean Myers
SE Hinton
Their Eyes Were Watching God
EB White
24. Wrote Doctor Faustus
Little Women
William Golding
Christopher Marlowe
Fyodor Dostoevsky
25. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Aphra Behn
John Keats
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Beowulf
26. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
Walt Whitman
Anna Karenina
Frederick Douglass
Their Eyes Were Watching God
27. Wrote The Outsiders
JRR Tolkein
SE Hinton
JD Salinger
Virgil
28. Wrote Sonnet 18 - Hamlet - and Macbeth; greatest playwright who ever lived - prolific poet - known for sonnets
William Shakespeare
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Pigman
Fyodor Dostoevsky
29. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
Elizabeth George Speare
The Joy Luck Club
Harper Lee
Ester Forbes
30. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
The Aeneid
Henry David Thoreau
Robert Frost
Maya Angelou
31. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
S.E. Hinton
Edgar Allan Poe
Charles Dickens
Jack London
32. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
Jean Craighead George
The Great Gatsby
Herman Melville
Katherine Patterson
33. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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34. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
Paul Zindel
Virginia Woolf
William Butler Yeats
Countee Cullen
35. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
Edgar Allan Poe
Lewis Carroll
Carl Hiaason
The Red Badge of Courage
36. 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
1984
The Call of the Wild
The Outsiders
Watership Down
37. Wrote Holes
The Red Badge of Courage
Not Without Laughter
Louis Sacher
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
38. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Beloved
Wendy Towle
Herman Melville
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
39. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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40. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
George Orwell
HG Wells
The Call of the Wild
Walt Whitman
41. Wrote Little Women; American novelist
Christopher Marlowe
George Orwell
Lord Byron
Louisa May Alcott
42. 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
The Call of the Wild
The Great Gatsby
Little Women
John Keats
43. Wrote Roll of Thunder
Mildred Taylor
Watership Down
The Great Gatsby
Herman Melville
44. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
Kate Chopin
Patricia Maclachlan
Mary Downing Hahn
CS Lewis
45. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
Ben Mikaelson
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Alice In Wonderland
Katherine Patterson
46. 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
Charlotte Bronte
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Helen Keller
Countee Cullen
47. Wrote The Outsiders
William Shakespeare
Beloved
S.E. Hinton
Gary Paulson
48. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Geoffrey Chaucer
Not Without Laughter
Aurora Leigh
Sharon Creech
49. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
Ben Mikaelson
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ruth Avi
Robert Cormier
50. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
Willa Cather
The Great Gatsby
Moby Dick
Jerry Spinelli