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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
Kate Dicamillo
The Bell Jar
Oscar Wilde
The Call of the Wild
2. Wrote The House on Mango Street
The Great Gatsby
Sandra Cisneros
David Copperfield
Anne Frank
3. Wrote Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
Jane Austen
Maya Angelou
JD Salinger
4. Wrote The Outsiders
Crime and Punishment
SE Hinton
William Butler Yeats
Elizabeth George Speare
5. Wrote Sonnet 18 - Hamlet - and Macbeth; greatest playwright who ever lived - prolific poet - known for sonnets
Frederick Douglass
Watership Down
The Aeneid
William Shakespeare
6. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
The Red Badge of Courage
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Catcher in the Rye
Macbeth
7. Wrote Maniac Magee
Mary Shelley
JD Salinger
Jerry Spinelli
Geoffrey Chaucer
8. Wrote The Outsiders
Anne Bradstreet
Ester Forbes
Alice Walker
S.E. Hinton
9. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
The Great Gatsby
William Golding
Leo Tolstoy
Percy Bysshe Shelley
10. 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
The Bell Jar
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
David Copperfield
Mary Downing Hahn
11. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
Kate Dicamillo
JD Salinger
Alice In Wonderland
John Keats
12. Wrote Holes
Zora Neale Hurston
Aphra Behn
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Louis Sacher
13. Wrote Wuthering Heights
Edith Wharton
Emily Bronte
Herman Melville
The Picture of Dorian Gray
14. Wrote Hoot
Charles Dickens
Carl Hiaason
Lord Byron
Amy Tan
15. Wrote Doctor Faustus
John Keats
Paul Zindel
Maya Angelou
Christopher Marlowe
16. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
Louis Sacher
Lord Byron
Little Women
Alice Walker
17. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
The Giver
Fyodor Dostoevsky
James Joyce
Charles Dickens
18. Wrote Hatchet
Robert Frost
Sharon Creech
Watership Down
Gary Paulson
19. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Amy Tan
Lois Lowry
Frederick Douglass
Caroline Cooney
20. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
George Orwell
F. Scott Fitzgerald
JRR Tolkein
Karen Hesse
21. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Daniel Defoe
Not Without Laughter
SE Hinton
Jane Austen
22. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
Willa Cather
Nancy Farmer
Avi
Louisa May Alcott
23. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
The Outsiders
Emily Dickinson
Moby Dick
The Bell Jar
24. 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
JD Salinger
The Picture of Dorian Gray
EB White
25. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
Caroline Cooney
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Edith Wharton
EB White
26. 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate;' Shakespearean couplet with ABAB CDCE EFEF GG rhyme scheme
Avi
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Herman Melville
Sonnet 18
27. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
HG Wells
S.E. Hinton
The Red Badge of Courage
'Self - Reliance'
28. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist
Lord Byron
Henry David Thoreau
JD Salinger
EB White
29. Wrote Charlotte's Web
Wendy Towle
F. Scott Fitzgerald
EB White
Robinson Crusoe
30. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Paul Zindel
The Giver
Mary Downing Hahn
Frederick Douglass
31. 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
Holes
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Crime and Punishment
Ernest Hemingway
32. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Walter Dean Myers
Amy Tan
Alice Walker
Anna Karenina
33. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
William Shakespeare
Virginia Woolf
Jean Craighead George
Oscar Wilde
34. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
Emily Bronte
The Bell Jar
Paul Zindel
Sylvia Plath
35. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Mary Downing Hahn
S.E. Hinton
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Herman Melville
36. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Alice Walker
Mary Shelley
37. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Great Gatsby
Toni Morrison
'Civil Disobedience'
38. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
Beowulf
Edith Wharton
Aurora Leigh
Carl Hiaason
39. 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
Anna Karenina
George Orwell
Helen Keller
Edgar Allan Poe
40. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Patterson
Ray Bradbury
Toni Morrison
Ernest Hemingway
41. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jean Craighead George
Harper Lee
William Shakespeare
42. 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
William Wordsworth
Edith Wharton
Watership Down
Fyodor Dostoevsky
43. Wrote Sounder
William Armstrong
Louis Sacher
Charlotte Bronte
Willa Cather
44. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
1984
Lord of the Flies
The Great Gatsby
The Giver
45. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Ruth Avi
Frankenstein
Lois Lowry
'Self - Reliance'
46. 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
Moby Dick
JRR Tolkein
Sylvia Plath
Emily Dickinson
47. Wrote Roll of Thunder
Mildred Taylor
Emily Bronte
Willa Cather
Walter Dean Myers
48. 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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49. 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
Avi
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Aurora Leigh
50. Wrote The Awakening - The Storm; feminist author of the 20th century; born in St. Louis - Missouri
Charles Dickens
Virgil
Elizabeth George Speare
Kate Chopin
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