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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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2. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
Robinson Crusoe
1984
JD Salinger
To Kill a Mockingbird
3. Wrote The Aeneid
William Golding
Emily Bronte
Jane Austen
Virgil
4. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
F. Scott Fitzgerald
CS Lewis
Beloved
William Butler Yeats
5. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
Macbeth
Sonnet 18
Carl Hiaason
Nathaniel Hawthorne
6. Wrote Hoot
William Golding
CS Lewis
Carl Hiaason
Mary Downing Hahn
7. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
Aphra Behn
HG Wells
Aurora Leigh
Ester Forbes
8. 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
The Bell Jar
Katherine Patterson
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
9. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
The Great Gatsby
Frederick Douglass
William Golding
JD Salinger
10. 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
1984
William Wordsworth
Stephen Crane
The Picture of Dorian Gray
11. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Anne Frank
The Giver
The Red Badge of Courage
Mildred Taylor
12. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Alice In Wonderland
David Copperfield
Elizabeth George Speare
Wendy Towle
13. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Amy Tan
Louis Sacher
Katherine Patterson
SE Hinton
14. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Alice Walker
Robert Frost
SE Hinton
Madeline L'Engle
15. 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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16. Wrote Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Mansfield Park - et al.
Jane Austen
Sharon Creech
Amy Tan
Aurora Leigh
17. Wrote Johnny Tremain
'In Reference to her Children'
Richard Adams
Ester Forbes
Sandra Cisneros
18. Wrote The Lion - the Witch - and the Wardrobe
CS Lewis
Holes
Mark Twain
Sonnet 18
19. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Sonnet 18
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Leo Tolstoy
1984
20. Wrote 'Wild Nights -- Wild Nights!;' 'I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died -' and 'Because I Could Not Stop For Death --;' 19th century poet; major themes: flowers/gardens - the master poems - morbidity - gospel poems - the undiscovered continent; irregula
Emily Dickinson
Crime and Punishment
Ben Mikaelson
Virgil
21. Wrote The Yearling
Caroline Cooney
EB White
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
'Civil Disobedience'
22. Wrote The Weary Blues - The Ways of White Folks - and Not Without Laughter; American poet - novelist - playwright - short story writer - and columnist; early innovator for literary art known as jazz poetry; best known for work during Harlem Renaissan
Avi
Langston Hughes
Walter Dean Myers
CS Lewis
23. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
Aphra Behn
S.E. Hinton
Beowulf
TS Eliot
24. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Kate Dicamillo
Ray Bradbury
Kate Chopin
25. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
The Great Gatsby
Edgar Allan Poe
Sharon Creech
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
26. 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
Emily Dickinson
Edgar Allan Poe
Macbeth
Charles Dickens
27. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Emily Bronte
Karen Hesse
Mildred Taylor
28. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
Frankenstein
Stephen Crane
Lewis Carroll
Louis Sacher
29. Wrote Mrs. Dalloway - Night and Day - The Voyage Out - and Jacob's Room; English novelist and essayist; one of the foremost modernist literary figures of 20th century
The Bell Jar
The Joy Luck Club
Jack London
Virginia Woolf
30. 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
Johann David Wyss
Toni Morrison
Walter Dean Myers
31. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Geoffrey Chaucer
Maya Angelou
Jerry Spinelli
Toni Morrison
32. Wrote Wuthering Heights
James Joyce
Jerry Spinelli
Emily Bronte
Willa Cather
33. 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
Maya Angelou
Herman Melville
Emily Bronte
Edgar Allan Poe
34. 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
Anne Frank
Louisa May Alcott
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Ernest Hemingway
35. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
Mildred Taylor
Patricia Maclachlan
Madeline L'Engle
Lord of the Flies
36. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
James Joyce
Walter Dean Myers
Toni Morrison
Fyodor Dostoevsky
37. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
S.E. Hinton
Daniel Defoe
Ernest Hemingway
David Copperfield
38. 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
Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment
Holes
The Bell Jar
39. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
Katherine Patterson
Jane Eyre
William Butler Yeats
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
40. A group of Chinese mothers and their American - born daughters struggle to communicate and understand each other; four families dipicted Woo - Jong - Hsu - and St. Clair
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Joy Luck Club
Mildred Taylor
Ernest Hemingway
41. Wrote Maniac Magee
Jerry Spinelli
Leo Tolstoy
Lord of the Flies
Nathaniel Hawthorne
42. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Leo Tolstoy
The Pigman
Caroline Cooney
Oscar Wilde
43. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker
Watership Down
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Wendy Towle
44. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
Robert Cormier
Animal Farm
Elizabeth George Speare
Not Without Laughter
45. 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
Washington Irving
Walter Dean Myers
John Keats
Percy Bysshe Shelley
46. 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
Robert Frost
Ester Forbes
The Outsiders
Crime and Punishment
47. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
EB White
Ben Mikaelson
Mary Downing Hahn
The Bell Jar
48. 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
Charlotte Bronte
Farenheit 451
Frankenstein
The Outsiders
49. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist
Henry David Thoreau
Ernest Hemingway
Toni Morrison
Johann David Wyss
50. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
Elie Wiesel
Helen Keller
Avi
Daniel Defoe