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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. 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
HG Wells
The Catcher in the Rye
Mary Shelley
Avi
2. Wrote Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
The Pigman
Karen Hesse
The Call of the Wild
3. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Maya Angelou
Elizabeth George Speare
Beowulf
Ruth Avi
4. Wrote Maniac Magee
Jerry Spinelli
Little Women
Aurora Leigh
Alice Walker
5. 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
Washington Irving
The Joy Luck Club
William Wordsworth
Kate Dicamillo
6. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
The Call of the Wild
Little Women
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Jack London
7. 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
David Copperfield
The Pigman
Not Without Laughter
Nancy Farmer
8. Wrote Ethan Frome
1984
'Civil Disobedience'
Edith Wharton
Frederick Douglass
9. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
Christopher Paul Curtis
Patricia Maclachlan
William Butler Yeats
Frederick Douglass
10. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
The Great Gatsby
Emily Dickinson
Daniel Defoe
James Joyce
11. Wrote Red Badge of Courage; American novelist - short story writer - poet - journalist - raised in NY and NJ; style and technique: naturalism - realism - impressionism; themes: ideals v. realities - spiritual crisis - fears
Geoffrey Chaucer
Mildred Taylor
Henry David Thoreau
Stephen Crane
12. Wrote The Hobbit
Herman Melville
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
JRR Tolkein
Sonnet 18
13. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Madeline L'Engle
Amy Tan
Jane Eyre
14. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
Kate Chopin
The Pigman
Fyodor Dostoevsky
JD Salinger
15. Wrote Hatchet
Gary Paulson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jerry Spinelli
Robert Cormier
16. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Lord Byron
1984
Christopher Paul Curtis
Nathaniel Hawthorne
17. 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
Carl Hiaason
Avi
William Butler Yeats
Langston Hughes
18. 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
Zora Neale Hurston
Mildred Taylor
Frankenstein
Countee Cullen
19. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
Macbeth
Walter Dean Myers
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sylvia Plath
20. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
Helen Keller
Scott O'Dell
Anne Bradstreet
Crime and Punishment
21. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Harper Lee
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Johann David Wyss
Patricia Maclachlan
22. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
Jane Eyre
Little Women
HG Wells
The Pigman
23. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
JD Salinger
EB White
Elizabeth George Speare
Sonnet 18
24. 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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25. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Johann David Wyss
Ben Mikaelson
Amy Tan
Robinson Crusoe
26. Wrote Walk Two Moons
CS Lewis
Sharon Creech
Edith Wharton
Louisa May Alcott
27. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
Jean Craighead George
TS Eliot
Anne Frank
Daniel Defoe
28. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist
Farenheit 451
James Joyce
Henry David Thoreau
The Call of the Wild
29. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
Frederick Douglass
JRR Tolkein
Christopher Paul Curtis
William Golding
30. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wendy Towle
Katherine Patterson
Edith Wharton
31. 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
Paul Zindel
Christopher Paul Curtis
Edgar Allan Poe
William Butler Yeats
32. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
JD Salinger
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Anna Karenina
Mary Downing Hahn
33. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Elie Wiesel
Elizabeth George Speare
1984
Anne Frank
34. 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
Lord of the Flies
Caroline Cooney
Kate Dicamillo
The Call of the Wild
35. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
Virginia Woolf
Emily Bronte
Daniel Defoe
Walt Whitman
36. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
Oscar Wilde
Alice In Wonderland
Helen Keller
Moby Dick
37. 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
Charles Dickens
Robert Frost
Scott O'Dell
John Keats
38. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
'Self - Reliance'
Anne Bradstreet
Jack London
Sandra Cisneros
39. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
Mildred Taylor
Crime and Punishment
Patricia Maclachlan
The Picture of Dorian Gray
40. An impoverished young woman (Jane) struggles to maintain her autonomy in the face of oppression - prejudice - and love; Gothic novel - bildungsroman - social portest novel
Lewis Carroll
JD Salinger
Jane Eyre
Robert Frost
41. Wrote The Pigman
Ben Mikaelson
Paul Zindel
Farenheit 451
William Butler Yeats
42. Wrote Roll of Thunder
Mildred Taylor
William Butler Yeats
Sylvia Plath
Elizabeth George Speare
43. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Ruth Avi
Moby Dick
Henry David Thoreau
44. '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
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sharon Creech
Sonnet 18
Helen Keller
45. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
Emily Dickinson
The Red Badge of Courage
Zora Neale Hurston
William Wordsworth
46. 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
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Watership Down
Henry David Thoreau
Ester Forbes
47. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Aphra Behn
Harper Lee
David Copperfield
Walt Whitman
48. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Ruth Avi
JRR Tolkein
Not Without Laughter
Alice Walker
49. Wrote Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
Mary Downing Hahn
1984
William Golding
50. Wrote Shiloh
Robert Frost
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
William Butler Yeats
Louis Sacher