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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote 'The Road Not Taken;' American poet; highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech; won Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry four times
Wendy Towle
Charlotte Bronte
Edith Wharton
Robert Frost
2. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Robert Frost
Patricia Maclachlan
'Civil Disobedience'
Caroline Cooney
3. Wrote The Yearling
'Self - Reliance'
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Lord Byron
'In Reference to her Children'
4. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Katherine Patterson
Ben Mikaelson
Beloved
Alice Walker
5. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
Their Eyes Were Watching God
George Orwell
Jack London
Johann David Wyss
6. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
Jane Eyre
Patricia Maclachlan
Herman Melville
Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Amy Tan
Madeline L'Engle
Jean Craighead George
The Red Badge of Courage
8. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Christopher Paul Curtis
'Civil Disobedience'
Mildred Taylor
Langston Hughes
9. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Robert Cormier
Farenheit 451
Edith Wharton
Mark Twain
10. Wrote Little Women; American novelist
Louisa May Alcott
William Armstrong
Ernest Hemingway
Virginia Woolf
11. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
Richard Adams
Little Women
Frederick Douglass
William Golding
12. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Oscar Wilde
Christopher Marlowe
CS Lewis
Percy Bysshe Shelley
13. 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
John Keats
Oscar Wilde
Sylvia Plath
Watership Down
14. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird; American author
Harper Lee
Frederick Douglass
The Joy Luck Club
George Orwell
15. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty
Lord of the Flies
JRR Tolkein
Ester Forbes
Ernest Hemingway
16. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nancy Farmer
Elie Wiesel
The Great Gatsby
17. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Henry David Thoreau
Madeline L'Engle
Beowulf
18. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Wendy Towle
The Catcher in the Rye
David Copperfield
The Bell Jar
19. 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
Frankenstein
Sonnet 18
Leo Tolstoy
Harper Lee
20. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Ernest Hemingway
Avi
William Shakespeare
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
21. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
Ray Bradbury
Edgar Allan Poe
Christopher Paul Curtis
Charles Dickens
22. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
Frankenstein
Carl Hiaason
James Joyce
Washington Irving
23. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Oscar Wilde
S.E. Hinton
Jean Craighead George
Walter Dean Myers
24. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
Jack London
Mildred Taylor
JD Salinger
The Picture of Dorian Gray
25. Wrote The Awakening - The Storm; feminist author of the 20th century; born in St. Louis - Missouri
Nathaniel Hawthorne
HG Wells
Kate Chopin
Alice In Wonderland
26. 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
Anne Frank
Lord of the Flies
Animal Farm
Patricia Maclachlan
27. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
Jane Austen
The Aeneid
Zora Neale Hurston
CS Lewis
28. 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.
William Golding
The Aeneid
William Wordsworth
'In Reference to her Children'
29. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Mary Shelley
Mary Downing Hahn
Charles Dickens
30. 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
'In Reference to her Children'
Karen Hesse
Avi
David Copperfield
31. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Charles Dickens
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Outsiders
Ray Bradbury
32. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
Kate Chopin
Louisa May Alcott
James Joyce
Avi
33. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
Alice In Wonderland
Wendy Towle
Anne Frank
Paul Zindel
34. 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
Henry David Thoreau
S.E. Hinton
Leo Tolstoy
The Pigman
35. 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
'Self - Reliance'
William Golding
Virginia Woolf
Ester Forbes
36. Book written by George Orwell - announced an insane world of dehumanization through terror in which the individual was systematically obliterated by an all - power elite; key phrases: Big Brother - doublethink - Newspeak - the Ministry of Peace...Tru
Robert Cormier
Walter Dean Myers
Avi
1984
37. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Ester Forbes
Farenheit 451
William Shakespeare
Anne Frank
38. 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
Stephen Crane
Jane Austen
Gary Paulson
Washington Irving
39. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
TS Eliot
Kate Dicamillo
Jack London
The Red Badge of Courage
40. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Louis Sacher
Anna Karenina
Robert Frost
Mildred Taylor
41. Wrote Watership Down
Mildred Taylor
Amy Tan
William Wordsworth
Richard Adams
42. 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
Beowulf
Animal Farm
The Bell Jar
Their Eyes Were Watching God
43. Wrote Night
Beowulf
Elie Wiesel
Macbeth
Anna Karenina
44. A group of poor kids (greasers) hold their own against a group of rich kids (socials aka socs) - losing two of their own in the process; protagonist: Ponyboy Curtis; bildungsroman; setting 1960s
Aphra Behn
Amy Tan
The Outsiders
Scott O'Dell
45. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Their Eyes Were Watching God
HG Wells
Amy Tan
46. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
Mark Twain
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Moby Dick
Nathaniel Hawthorne
47. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
Anna Karenina
Christopher Marlowe
Percy Bysshe Shelley
To Kill a Mockingbird
48. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
Holes
Alice In Wonderland
The Catcher in the Rye
Aurora Leigh
49. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist
Anne Bradstreet
Carl Hiaason
Henry David Thoreau
1984
50. 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
The Call of the Wild
Aphra Behn
The Picture of Dorian Gray
HG Wells