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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote Ethan Frome
William Shakespeare
Edith Wharton
'Self - Reliance'
Robert Frost
2. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Herman Melville
John Keats
'Civil Disobedience'
Walter Dean Myers
3. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Kate Chopin
Aphra Behn
Willa Cather
William Armstrong
4. Wrote Johnny Tremain
Ester Forbes
Nancy Farmer
The Red Badge of Courage
Ernest Hemingway
5. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
Ray Bradbury
JD Salinger
Paul Zindel
To Kill a Mockingbird
6. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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7. 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
Beloved
Caroline Cooney
Karen Hesse
Watership Down
8. Wrote Little Women; American novelist
John Keats
Ruth Avi
Lord of the Flies
Louisa May Alcott
9. Wrote Shiloh
Jerry Spinelli
The Red Badge of Courage
Richard Adams
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
10. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
Alice In Wonderland
HG Wells
EB White
1984
11. 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
Katherine Patterson
The Picture of Dorian Gray
F. Scott Fitzgerald
12. 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
Anna Karenina
Aphra Behn
Ernest Hemingway
Robert Frost
13. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Karen Hesse
Washington Irving
Leo Tolstoy
Holes
14. 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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15. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Kate Dicamillo
Harper Lee
Patricia Maclachlan
Jean Craighead George
16. 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
Animal Farm
Ernest Hemingway
Watership Down
Emily Bronte
17. 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
Not Without Laughter
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sandra Cisneros
18. Wrote Holes
Christopher Paul Curtis
Louis Sacher
William Wordsworth
Ernest Hemingway
19. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Cormier
Mark Twain
Emily Bronte
20. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist
Charles Dickens
Henry David Thoreau
Geoffrey Chaucer
CS Lewis
21. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Ray Bradbury
Wendy Towle
Caroline Cooney
Emily Dickinson
22. Wrote Night
Mary Downing Hahn
Anna Karenina
Elie Wiesel
F. Scott Fitzgerald
23. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird; American author
Jerry Spinelli
Ruth Avi
Daniel Defoe
Harper Lee
24. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Wendy Towle
S.E. Hinton
Daniel Defoe
Watership Down
25. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Harper Lee
Jack London
Countee Cullen
Mary Shelley
26. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
The Giver
Ben Mikaelson
Lois Lowry
Johann David Wyss
27. 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
Frederick Douglass
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Call of the Wild
Edgar Allan Poe
28. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Charles Dickens
Avi
William Golding
Percy Bysshe Shelley
29. Wrote Roll of Thunder
Lois Lowry
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Mildred Taylor
Walt Whitman
30. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Louisa May Alcott
Nancy Farmer
Edgar Allan Poe
31. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Willa Cather
David Copperfield
Caroline Cooney
32. 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
JRR Tolkein
William Armstrong
John Keats
Kate Dicamillo
33. 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
Holes
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Wordsworth
Scott O'Dell
34. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Robinson Crusoe
Jean Craighead George
Lois Lowry
Anne Frank
35. 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
Wendy Towle
The Great Gatsby
Paul Zindel
36. Wrote Sonnet 18 - Hamlet - and Macbeth; greatest playwright who ever lived - prolific poet - known for sonnets
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Not Without Laughter
William Shakespeare
Jack London
37. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Scott O'Dell
'Civil Disobedience'
Sharon Creech
38. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
Jack London
SE Hinton
Charlotte Bronte
Sylvia Plath
39. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
'Civil Disobedience'
Edith Wharton
Elizabeth George Speare
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
40. 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
Jean Craighead George
Sharon Creech
William Wordsworth
'Self - Reliance'
41. 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
Sonnet 18
The Outsiders
Beowulf
Anne Frank
42. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Amy Tan
Virgil
Alice Walker
David Copperfield
43. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
Frederick Douglass
Washington Irving
Not Without Laughter
Elie Wiesel
44. Wrote Sounder
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
William Armstrong
Elie Wiesel
Robert Cormier
45. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Alice In Wonderland
Caroline Cooney
Toni Morrison
The Call of the Wild
46. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Elizabeth George Speare
Mary Downing Hahn
James Joyce
Lois Lowry
47. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
Jerry Spinelli
Walter Dean Myers
'Civil Disobedience'
The Great Gatsby
48. Wrote The Outsiders
Watership Down
Maya Angelou
SE Hinton
Lord Byron
49. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
Jane Eyre
To Kill a Mockingbird
Ruth Avi
Caroline Cooney
50. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Patterson
'In Reference to her Children'
'Self - Reliance'
Toni Morrison