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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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2. '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
The Bell Jar
Richard Adams
Leo Tolstoy
3. Wrote The House on Mango Street
Alice Walker
Mary Downing Hahn
William Armstrong
Sandra Cisneros
4. Wrote The Awakening - The Storm; feminist author of the 20th century; born in St. Louis - Missouri
Kate Chopin
Scott O'Dell
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Zora Neale Hurston
5. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
Kate Dicamillo
Little Women
Sharon Creech
Johann David Wyss
6. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Daniel Defoe
Lord of the Flies
Ernest Hemingway
Christopher Paul Curtis
7. 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
Ester Forbes
Leo Tolstoy
Robert Frost
Elie Wiesel
8. A pampered dog (Buck) adjusts to the harsh realities of life in the North as he struggles with his recovered wild instincts and finds a master (John Thorton) who treats him right; novel - adventure story - setting late 1890s
Toni Morrison
The Call of the Wild
The Pigman
Countee Cullen
9. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
Nancy Farmer
Oscar Wilde
JD Salinger
Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. 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
Robert Cormier
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Lois Lowry
John Keats
11. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Caroline Cooney
Ernest Hemingway
Daniel Defoe
To Kill a Mockingbird
12. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Harper Lee
Edith Wharton
Leo Tolstoy
Oscar Wilde
13. 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
William Armstrong
William Golding
Virginia Woolf
Their Eyes Were Watching God
14. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Wendy Towle
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Lois Lowry
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
15. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Jean Craighead George
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ester Forbes
16. Wrote Maniac Magee
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Kate Dicamillo
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Jerry Spinelli
17. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Avi
Elizabeth George Speare
William Golding
Edith Wharton
18. A group of animals mount a successful rebellion against the farmer who rules them - but their dreams of equality for all are ruined when one pig seizes power; novella - dystopian animal fable
Stephen Crane
Animal Farm
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Alice Walker
19. 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
'Self - Reliance'
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Holes
The Aeneid
20. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
HG Wells
Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment
William Golding
21. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
Crime and Punishment
Walt Whitman
Louisa May Alcott
The Red Badge of Courage
22. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
George Orwell
Ruth Avi
Patricia Maclachlan
Edgar Allan Poe
23. Wrote Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe
The Outsiders
Elie Wiesel
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
24. 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
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Mark Twain
Beowulf
Walter Dean Myers
25. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
Helen Keller
JRR Tolkein
Geoffrey Chaucer
Nathaniel Hawthorne
26. Wrote Little Women; American novelist
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Richard Adams
Louisa May Alcott
Ralph Waldo Emerson
27. Wrote The Pigman
Walter Dean Myers
Paul Zindel
Virgil
Patricia Maclachlan
28. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Frankenstein
Ray Bradbury
Mary Downing Hahn
Virgil
29. 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
Virgil
Robinson Crusoe
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Avi
30. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Their Eyes Were Watching God
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mildred Taylor
Anna Karenina
31. An impoverished young woman (Jane) struggles to maintain her autonomy in the face of oppression - prejudice - and love; Gothic novel - bildungsroman - social portest novel
Caroline Cooney
George Orwell
Jane Eyre
The Great Gatsby
32. 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
Countee Cullen
Carl Hiaason
Frankenstein
John Keats
33. 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
1984
Sandra Cisneros
The Outsiders
Kate Chopin
34. 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
Aurora Leigh
Virgil
Lord of the Flies
35. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism
Lord Byron
The Bell Jar
Patricia Maclachlan
Anne Frank
36. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
The Red Badge of Courage
Richard Adams
Jane Eyre
Washington Irving
37. 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
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frederick Douglass
Kate Dicamillo
38. Wrote Watership Down
Alice In Wonderland
The Aeneid
Langston Hughes
Richard Adams
39. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Herman Melville
HG Wells
Sylvia Plath
Moby Dick
40. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker
Louisa May Alcott
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Robert Cormier
41. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
David Copperfield
Aurora Leigh
Macbeth
Frederick Douglass
42. 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
Scott O'Dell
Jack London
Farenheit 451
43. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
Jack London
Countee Cullen
Geoffrey Chaucer
To Kill a Mockingbird
44. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
JD Salinger
Daniel Defoe
The Aeneid
EB White
45. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
Robert Cormier
The Call of the Wild
Frankenstein
Anne Bradstreet
46. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
Amy Tan
Frederick Douglass
Jean Craighead George
Virginia Woolf
47. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
Charles Dickens
Daniel Defoe
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Katherine Patterson
48. 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
Mary Shelley
JRR Tolkein
Mildred Taylor
The Catcher in the Rye
49. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Red Badge of Courage
Moby Dick
Willa Cather
50. 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
Edgar Allan Poe
Mary Shelley
Richard Adams
William Butler Yeats