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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Lord of the Flies
Not Without Laughter
Christopher Paul Curtis
Anne Frank
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
Countee Cullen
Edgar Allan Poe
'In Reference to her Children'
Frankenstein
3. Wrote The Outsiders
Anne Bradstreet
Watership Down
SE Hinton
Aurora Leigh
4. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
Richard Adams
Mildred Taylor
Scott O'Dell
The Picture of Dorian Gray
5. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
William Butler Yeats
Sylvia Plath
Anne Frank
Anna Karenina
6. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
Holes
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Kate Dicamillo
CS Lewis
7. NOT anti - society or anti - community; presupposes that the mind is initially the subject to an unhappy conformity; calls on individuals to value their own thoughts - opinions - experiences above those presented to them by other individuals - societ
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8. Wrote Jane Eyre
Animal Farm
The Giver
Charlotte Bronte
JD Salinger
9. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Louisa May Alcott
Sharon Creech
Robinson Crusoe
Sylvia Plath
10. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Herman Melville
Farenheit 451
Little Women
Alice Walker
11. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Daniel Defoe
Patricia Maclachlan
The Joy Luck Club
12. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
Washington Irving
William Armstrong
Madeline L'Engle
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
13. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
Anne Bradstreet
Madeline L'Engle
Carl Hiaason
Zora Neale Hurston
14. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Lewis Carroll
Caroline Cooney
The Bell Jar
Carl Hiaason
15. Wrote The House on Mango Street
John Keats
Sandra Cisneros
Walt Whitman
TS Eliot
16. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Amy Tan
Karen Hesse
Walter Dean Myers
Beloved
17. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe
Beloved
Karen Hesse
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Christopher Marlowe
18. Wrote Charlotte's Web
Alice Walker
EB White
Mildred Taylor
Elizabeth George Speare
19. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
Willa Cather
'Self - Reliance'
Moby Dick
Nancy Farmer
20. Wrote The Awakening - The Storm; feminist author of the 20th century; born in St. Louis - Missouri
Charlotte Bronte
Kate Chopin
Macbeth
Jerry Spinelli
21. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Patricia Maclachlan
Virgil
Robert Frost
Jean Craighead George
22. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
Gary Paulson
The Great Gatsby
Louisa May Alcott
Ralph Waldo Emerson
23. Wrote Watership Down
Richard Adams
Emily Dickinson
William Butler Yeats
Scott O'Dell
24. 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
Mildred Taylor
Oscar Wilde
Maya Angelou
The Catcher in the Rye
25. Wrote Sounder
Amy Tan
Scott O'Dell
William Armstrong
'Civil Disobedience'
26. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
David Copperfield
Maya Angelou
Sylvia Plath
Countee Cullen
27. Wrote The Great Gatsby
Sylvia Plath
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Charlotte Bronte
Anne Frank
28. Wrote Maniac Magee
Henry David Thoreau
Maya Angelou
Ester Forbes
Jerry Spinelli
29. 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
Frankenstein
Holes
William Shakespeare
Lord Byron
30. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Mary Downing Hahn
William Armstrong
Patricia Maclachlan
Christopher Marlowe
31. 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
Emily Bronte
Stephen Crane
Alice In Wonderland
32. 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
Robinson Crusoe
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Toni Morrison
Sylvia Plath
33. Wrote Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton
Charles Dickens
EB White
Countee Cullen
34. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
Jerry Spinelli
Elizabeth George Speare
Mildred Taylor
Mildred Taylor
35. 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
Percy Bysshe Shelley
William Wordsworth
Anne Bradstreet
George Orwell
36. 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
The Joy Luck Club
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Edgar Allan Poe
HG Wells
37. Wrote The Yearling
William Shakespeare
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Jane Eyre
The Bell Jar
38. Wrote Roll of Thunder
JD Salinger
Patricia Maclachlan
Mildred Taylor
The Outsiders
39. 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'
Beowulf
Ernest Hemingway
Emily Dickinson
Lord of the Flies
40. 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
Kate Chopin
Not Without Laughter
Crime and Punishment
41. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
Crime and Punishment
Wendy Towle
Helen Keller
Richard Adams
42. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Avi
Toni Morrison
William Armstrong
Maya Angelou
43. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
Charles Dickens
John Keats
Animal Farm
Katherine Patterson
44. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Johann David Wyss
Richard Adams
The Red Badge of Courage
Farenheit 451
45. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Aphra Behn
Mary Shelley
Robert Frost
Jean Craighead George
46. 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
William Wordsworth
Sylvia Plath
Daniel Defoe
The Outsiders
47. Wrote Hatchet
Kate Chopin
Gary Paulson
Alice Walker
Elizabeth George Speare
48. Wrote Sonnet 18 - Hamlet - and Macbeth; greatest playwright who ever lived - prolific poet - known for sonnets
The Pigman
Kate Chopin
William Shakespeare
Virgil
49. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
George Orwell
William Wordsworth
Anne Bradstreet
Daniel Defoe
50. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
To Kill a Mockingbird
Charles Dickens
Katherine Patterson
Christopher Marlowe