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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote The Outsiders
SE Hinton
EB White
Alice Walker
Lois Lowry
2. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
The Catcher in the Rye
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Ruth Avi
Richard Adams
3. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Christopher Paul Curtis
Virgil
Watership Down
Robert Frost
4. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Louisa May Alcott
TS Eliot
Johann David Wyss
Harper Lee
5. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Ray Bradbury
'In Reference to her Children'
Daniel Defoe
Animal Farm
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
Ray Bradbury
David Copperfield
Alice Walker
Watership Down
7. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Lois Lowry
Robert Frost
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Nathaniel Hawthorne
8. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
Helen Keller
The Catcher in the Rye
JD Salinger
William Wordsworth
9. 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
Edith Wharton
Animal Farm
'Civil Disobedience'
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
10. Wrote Shiloh
Farenheit 451
The Joy Luck Club
Ernest Hemingway
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
11. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
The Bell Jar
Walt Whitman
Toni Morrison
Robinson Crusoe
12. 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
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Washington Irving
Beowulf
Sylvia Plath
13. Wrote The Pigman
Jack London
Virginia Woolf
Paul Zindel
Ester Forbes
14. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
Macbeth
Daniel Defoe
HG Wells
Anna Karenina
15. Wrote The Awakening - The Storm; feminist author of the 20th century; born in St. Louis - Missouri
Anna Karenina
Mildred Taylor
The Aeneid
Kate Chopin
16. Wrote Holes
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Walter Dean Myers
Louis Sacher
Oscar Wilde
17. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
Frankenstein
Geoffrey Chaucer
John Keats
Alice Walker
18. Wrote Roll of Thunder
Edgar Allan Poe
Alice Walker
Mildred Taylor
Alice In Wonderland
19. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
The Pigman
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mary Shelley
Sandra Cisneros
20. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Alice Walker
Mary Shelley
Lewis Carroll
21. 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
Karen Hesse
Jerry Spinelli
Leo Tolstoy
Countee Cullen
22. Wrote Out of the Dust
To Kill a Mockingbird
Karen Hesse
Gary Paulson
Oscar Wilde
23. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Animal Farm
Jane Austen
Anne Frank
Mary Downing Hahn
24. Wrote The Great Gatsby
Katherine Patterson
James Joyce
Anne Bradstreet
F. Scott Fitzgerald
25. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Johann David Wyss
Oscar Wilde
Alice In Wonderland
Edgar Allan Poe
26. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
The Outsiders
HG Wells
William Armstrong
Percy Bysshe Shelley
27. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
Caroline Cooney
William Butler Yeats
Macbeth
Christopher Marlowe
28. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty
Robert Frost
Lord of the Flies
Geoffrey Chaucer
Virgil
29. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
James Joyce
Lord of the Flies
The Aeneid
Sharon Creech
30. 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
Herman Melville
William Wordsworth
Maya Angelou
Robinson Crusoe
31. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
TS Eliot
Countee Cullen
32. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
Little Women
William Golding
Alice In Wonderland
Elizabeth George Speare
33. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
Johann David Wyss
The Red Badge of Courage
Aurora Leigh
Kate Dicamillo
34. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Jerry Spinelli
Alice Walker
Maya Angelou
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
35. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird; American author
Christopher Paul Curtis
Harper Lee
Lewis Carroll
Louisa May Alcott
36. 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
Christopher Paul Curtis
Johann David Wyss
The Catcher in the Rye
Robinson Crusoe
37. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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38. 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
Countee Cullen
Langston Hughes
Jerry Spinelli
Macbeth
39. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Mary Shelley
Charles Dickens
Lord of the Flies
Mary Downing Hahn
40. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
Willa Cather
Stephen Crane
Scott O'Dell
John Keats
41. 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
TS Eliot
Kate Dicamillo
Frederick Douglass
Watership Down
42. Wrote Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton
Henry David Thoreau
Paul Zindel
Mark Twain
43. 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
John Keats
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Animal Farm
Moby Dick
44. An impoverished young woman (Jane) struggles to maintain her autonomy in the face of oppression - prejudice - and love; Gothic novel - bildungsroman - social portest novel
Anne Bradstreet
Paul Zindel
Avi
Jane Eyre
45. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
The Aeneid
Patricia Maclachlan
Mildred Taylor
Fyodor Dostoevsky
46. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Jane Austen
Elizabeth George Speare
Maya Angelou
Lord Byron
47. Wrote Sounder
Lord of the Flies
Madeline L'Engle
William Armstrong
Wendy Towle
48. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Caroline Cooney
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Louisa May Alcott
Kate Chopin
49. 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
Louisa May Alcott
The Giver
Helen Keller
Their Eyes Were Watching God
50. Wrote The Lion - the Witch - and the Wardrobe
Alice Walker
Zora Neale Hurston
CS Lewis
Aurora Leigh