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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 '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
Washington Irving
Herman Melville
Percy Bysshe Shelley
3. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Frederick Douglass
Emily Bronte
'In Reference to her Children'
Mary Downing Hahn
4. 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
Maya Angelou
Virginia Woolf
Ray Bradbury
William Wordsworth
5. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Aphra Behn
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Leo Tolstoy
Virgil
6. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
HG Wells
Christopher Paul Curtis
Emily Bronte
Anna Karenina
7. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
Little Women
HG Wells
James Joyce
Karen Hesse
8. 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.
Sharon Creech
Countee Cullen
Robert Cormier
The Aeneid
9. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Stephen Crane
Charles Dickens
Leo Tolstoy
Mary Downing Hahn
10. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
Elizabeth George Speare
Charlotte Bronte
Lois Lowry
Sylvia Plath
11. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
George Orwell
Sharon Creech
Herman Melville
The Pigman
12. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Richard Adams
Maya Angelou
Christopher Paul Curtis
TS Eliot
13. Wrote Jane Eyre
William Wordsworth
Washington Irving
Not Without Laughter
Charlotte Bronte
14. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
1984
Gary Paulson
Amy Tan
Jane Eyre
15. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
Christopher Paul Curtis
Geoffrey Chaucer
Anna Karenina
Charles Dickens
16. Wrote The Pigman
Harper Lee
Henry David Thoreau
Paul Zindel
Edith Wharton
17. Wrote Maniac Magee
Elie Wiesel
Frederick Douglass
Ernest Hemingway
Jerry Spinelli
18. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
'Self - Reliance'
Lewis Carroll
Leo Tolstoy
To Kill a Mockingbird
19. 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
Charlotte Bronte
Alice Walker
Beowulf
Not Without Laughter
20. Maintains the bird metaphor throughout the poem's ninety - six lines - describing the various 'flights' of five of her children and her concerns about those remaining in the nest
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21. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
Carl Hiaason
Walter Dean Myers
Katherine Patterson
David Copperfield
22. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
William Shakespeare
Ben Mikaelson
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mildred Taylor
23. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
The Call of the Wild
William Butler Yeats
Patricia Maclachlan
Percy Bysshe Shelley
24. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Toni Morrison
JRR Tolkein
Edgar Allan Poe
Geoffrey Chaucer
25. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
William Armstrong
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Mary Shelley
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
26. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Caroline Cooney
Leo Tolstoy
Daniel Defoe
27. 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
The Aeneid
Sonnet 18
Anne Bradstreet
Their Eyes Were Watching God
28. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Lewis Carroll
Avi
Oscar Wilde
Edith Wharton
29. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
TS Eliot
Not Without Laughter
George Orwell
F. Scott Fitzgerald
30. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Christopher Paul Curtis
Ben Mikaelson
William Shakespeare
Langston Hughes
31. Wrote The Lion - the Witch - and the Wardrobe
CS Lewis
Robert Cormier
The Joy Luck Club
Lord Byron
32. Wrote Hatchet
Maya Angelou
Gary Paulson
Willa Cather
Henry David Thoreau
33. Wrote The Awakening - The Storm; feminist author of the 20th century; born in St. Louis - Missouri
Kate Chopin
The Catcher in the Rye
Edith Wharton
Animal Farm
34. 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
George Orwell
SE Hinton
Animal Farm
Beowulf
35. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird; American author
Countee Cullen
Christopher Marlowe
George Orwell
Harper Lee
36. Wrote The Aeneid
Virgil
Beowulf
Lewis Carroll
Willa Cather
37. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Jane Austen
Mary Shelley
Willa Cather
Wendy Towle
38. Wrote Charlotte's Web
Gary Paulson
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
EB White
JD Salinger
39. 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
Paul Zindel
The Catcher in the Rye
Virginia Woolf
Elie Wiesel
40. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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41. Wrote The Outsiders
Sonnet 18
SE Hinton
The Pigman
The Catcher in the Rye
42. Wrote Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Mansfield Park - et al.
Lord of the Flies
Madeline L'Engle
Patricia Maclachlan
Jane Austen
43. 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
Mildred Taylor
Watership Down
Louisa May Alcott
The Bell Jar
44. 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
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Langston Hughes
The Red Badge of Courage
Mary Shelley
45. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Langston Hughes
The Red Badge of Courage
Washington Irving
Avi
46. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
Frankenstein
The Great Gatsby
Geoffrey Chaucer
Avi
47. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
The Red Badge of Courage
Mildred Taylor
Frederick Douglass
William Golding
48. Wrote Night
Elie Wiesel
The Bell Jar
Anne Frank
Countee Cullen
49. Wrote The Glory Field
Anne Bradstreet
Amy Tan
Walter Dean Myers
Beloved
50. 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
Frankenstein
Holes
Animal Farm
Elizabeth George Speare