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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
Harper Lee
Geoffrey Chaucer
Walt Whitman
Ester Forbes
2. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
Helen Keller
William Armstrong
Edith Wharton
The Aeneid
3. 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
Louisa May Alcott
Mary Shelley
Kate Chopin
4. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Virgil
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wendy Towle
1984
5. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
Aurora Leigh
Lois Lowry
Virginia Woolf
George Orwell
6. 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.
Carl Hiaason
The Aeneid
CS Lewis
To Kill a Mockingbird
7. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Richard Adams
Aphra Behn
Sylvia Plath
JD Salinger
8. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Christopher Marlowe
Ray Bradbury
Little Women
Caroline Cooney
9. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
William Wordsworth
Caroline Cooney
Sandra Cisneros
The Bell Jar
10. Wrote Charlotte's Web
John Keats
Nathaniel Hawthorne
EB White
Mark Twain
11. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
To Kill a Mockingbird
Anna Karenina
Jane Eyre
Mary Shelley
12. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
Aurora Leigh
Crime and Punishment
Aphra Behn
William Golding
13. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
Animal Farm
1984
George Orwell
The Picture of Dorian Gray
14. Wrote The Chocolate War
Robert Cormier
Caroline Cooney
JRR Tolkein
Mary Downing Hahn
15. 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
To Kill a Mockingbird
Macbeth
John Keats
Edith Wharton
16. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Charlotte Bronte
Maya Angelou
Harper Lee
Alice In Wonderland
17. 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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18. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism
Henry David Thoreau
Frederick Douglass
Kate Dicamillo
Lord Byron
19. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird; American author
Harper Lee
Carl Hiaason
TS Eliot
Helen Keller
20. 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
The Giver
Lord Byron
Holes
Jean Craighead George
21. Wrote Roll of Thunder
Aphra Behn
Mary Downing Hahn
Walter Dean Myers
Mildred Taylor
22. Wrote Little Women; American novelist
Sylvia Plath
The Giver
Louisa May Alcott
Anne Frank
23. Wrote Night
Mary Shelley
Crime and Punishment
Elie Wiesel
Lewis Carroll
24. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
Holes
Zora Neale Hurston
The Aeneid
Frederick Douglass
25. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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26. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
Sandra Cisneros
Ernest Hemingway
Sylvia Plath
The Call of the Wild
27. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
James Joyce
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Virgil
Robinson Crusoe
28. 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
The Call of the Wild
Frankenstein
George Orwell
Aurora Leigh
29. 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
Geoffrey Chaucer
Beowulf
Ray Bradbury
David Copperfield
30. Wrote The Hobbit
Robert Frost
Jack London
JRR Tolkein
Little Women
31. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Helen Keller
Amy Tan
The Outsiders
Anne Bradstreet
32. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
Katherine Patterson
Avi
Not Without Laughter
Mildred Taylor
33. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
SE Hinton
Amy Tan
Mary Downing Hahn
Sylvia Plath
34. In an attempt to prove a theory - a student (Raskolnikov) murders two women - after which he suffers greatly from guilt and worry; psychological drama - setting in the 1860s
William Golding
Jack London
Crime and Punishment
Katherine Patterson
35. 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 Wordsworth
Oscar Wilde
Anne Bradstreet
Their Eyes Were Watching God
36. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
Sylvia Plath
Patricia Maclachlan
Lord Byron
Jean Craighead George
37. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Carl Hiaason
Langston Hughes
David Copperfield
Ruth Avi
38. Wrote Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
'Civil Disobedience'
Emily Bronte
To Kill a Mockingbird
39. Wrote Doctor Faustus
Edith Wharton
Carl Hiaason
William Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
40. 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
The Pigman
Robert Frost
The Joy Luck Club
Frankenstein
41. Wrote The Outsiders
Daniel Defoe
Scott O'Dell
Emily Bronte
S.E. Hinton
42. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Sonnet 18
Daniel Defoe
Sharon Creech
Little Women
43. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Aurora Leigh
Toni Morrison
Robert Frost
Herman Melville
44. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe
Leo Tolstoy
Beloved
Sonnet 18
Nathaniel Hawthorne
45. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
Edith Wharton
Emily Bronte
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Christopher Paul Curtis
46. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
JD Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
Oscar Wilde
Johann David Wyss
47. Wrote The Outsiders
Beowulf
'Civil Disobedience'
SE Hinton
Ralph Waldo Emerson
48. 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
Paul Zindel
Fyodor Dostoevsky
William Butler Yeats
Robinson Crusoe
49. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Henry David Thoreau
Lewis Carroll
Mary Shelley
Daniel Defoe
50. Wrote The Glory Field
Robert Cormier
Jean Craighead George
Amy Tan
Walter Dean Myers
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