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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Walter Dean Myers
Lois Lowry
Gary Paulson
Anne Frank
2. 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
The Catcher in the Rye
Mildred Taylor
Not Without Laughter
Crime and Punishment
3. 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
Little Women
Robert Frost
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Langston Hughes
4. 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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5. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
Helen Keller
SE Hinton
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Caroline Cooney
6. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
Sylvia Plath
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Avi
F. Scott Fitzgerald
7. 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
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frankenstein
Alice Walker
Jane Eyre
8. Wrote The Lion - the Witch - and the Wardrobe
Mark Twain
Alice In Wonderland
Sonnet 18
CS Lewis
9. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Daniel Defoe
Jerry Spinelli
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Charles Dickens
10. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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11. 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
Emily Bronte
The Bell Jar
1984
The Red Badge of Courage
12. Wrote The Outsiders
HG Wells
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Red Badge of Courage
S.E. Hinton
13. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
The Call of the Wild
Carl Hiaason
Washington Irving
Elie Wiesel
14. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Oscar Wilde
Jane Austen
Animal Farm
Sharon Creech
15. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Ruth Avi
Anne Bradstreet
Mildred Taylor
Fyodor Dostoevsky
16. 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
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Ruth Avi
TS Eliot
Mildred Taylor
17. 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.
Leo Tolstoy
The Aeneid
Anne Bradstreet
Crime and Punishment
18. 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
John Keats
Stephen Crane
Maya Angelou
Virginia Woolf
19. An impoverished young woman (Jane) struggles to maintain her autonomy in the face of oppression - prejudice - and love; Gothic novel - bildungsroman - social portest novel
Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre
Sylvia Plath
S.E. Hinton
20. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
JD Salinger
Mark Twain
Charles Dickens
Frankenstein
21. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Johann David Wyss
Mildred Taylor
Leo Tolstoy
Madeline L'Engle
22. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Christopher Marlowe
Emily Bronte
23. 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
Lewis Carroll
Ben Mikaelson
Elizabeth George Speare
The Call of the Wild
24. 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
Louisa May Alcott
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Nathaniel Hawthorne
25. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Helen Keller
Ruth Avi
Robert Cormier
26. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Ruth Avi
Nancy Farmer
Elie Wiesel
CS Lewis
27. 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
Aphra Behn
Farenheit 451
The Giver
Lord Byron
28. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
To Kill a Mockingbird
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sylvia Plath
The Picture of Dorian Gray
29. Wrote The Yearling
Jean Craighead George
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Jack London
30. A monomaniacal captain tries and fails to kill a monstrous white whale; adventure story - quest tale - allegory; protagonist: Ishmael - Ahab; antogonist: Ahab - great white sperm whale
Moby Dick
Toni Morrison
HG Wells
Washington Irving
31. Wrote The Hobbit
George Orwell
Anne Bradstreet
Nancy Farmer
JRR Tolkein
32. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
Mildred Taylor
Henry David Thoreau
Kate Dicamillo
Lois Lowry
33. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
David Copperfield
Gary Paulson
Toni Morrison
Walter Dean Myers
34. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Bell Jar
Elie Wiesel
35. 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
Amy Tan
The Pigman
The Great Gatsby
Mildred Taylor
36. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
The Aeneid
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ray Bradbury
Aurora Leigh
37. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
The Aeneid
Robert Cormier
Aphra Behn
Avi
38. Wrote The Awakening - The Storm; feminist author of the 20th century; born in St. Louis - Missouri
The Outsiders
'Self - Reliance'
Kate Chopin
Lord Byron
39. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Herman Melville
SE Hinton
Anna Karenina
Christopher Marlowe
40. 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
Holes
Animal Farm
Lord of the Flies
Elizabeth George Speare
41. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
Lord Byron
Geoffrey Chaucer
Charles Dickens
Robert Frost
42. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
George Orwell
Jack London
'In Reference to her Children'
43. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Maya Angelou
Kate Dicamillo
Ester Forbes
Ernest Hemingway
44. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
William Golding
Avi
Nancy Farmer
Karen Hesse
45. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
Holes
HG Wells
Virgil
Avi
46. Wrote Maniac Magee
George Orwell
Jerry Spinelli
Richard Adams
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
47. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
EB White
Ben Mikaelson
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Sandra Cisneros
48. 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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49. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Caroline Cooney
Ester Forbes
Anne Frank
Oscar Wilde
50. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
Animal Farm
Charlotte Bronte
William Butler Yeats
Alice Walker