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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
Ester Forbes
Kate Dicamillo
Christopher Marlowe
Patricia Maclachlan
2. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird; American author
Beowulf
Harper Lee
Stephen Crane
Madeline L'Engle
3. Wrote 'Any Human to Another -' 'Color -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl;' American Romantic poet; leading African - American poets of his time; associated with generation of poets of the Harlem Renaissance
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Countee Cullen
Zora Neale Hurston
SE Hinton
4. 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
Watership Down
Patricia Maclachlan
Charlotte Bronte
1984
5. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
Farenheit 451
Anna Karenina
Robinson Crusoe
George Orwell
6. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Langston Hughes
Geoffrey Chaucer
William Wordsworth
7. 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
Edith Wharton
JD Salinger
Beowulf
Lewis Carroll
8. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
William Golding
William Butler Yeats
Jerry Spinelli
Ruth Avi
9. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Jane Austen
Caroline Cooney
The Great Gatsby
Amy Tan
10. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Willa Cather
Beloved
The Bell Jar
11. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Civil Disobedience'
Madeline L'Engle
The Picture of Dorian Gray
12. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Maya Angelou
Jack London
Animal Farm
13. Wrote The House on Mango Street
Emily Bronte
Jane Austen
Sandra Cisneros
Aphra Behn
14. 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
Holes
Ester Forbes
Lewis Carroll
Countee Cullen
15. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty
William Golding
Louisa May Alcott
Nancy Farmer
Lord of the Flies
16. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
Elie Wiesel
Crime and Punishment
JD Salinger
Charles Dickens
17. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Mary Downing Hahn
The Outsiders
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Sharon Creech
18. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
The Red Badge of Courage
Harper Lee
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Crime and Punishment
19. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Sonnet 18
Daniel Defoe
John Keats
The Great Gatsby
20. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Holes
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Nancy Farmer
Alice Walker
21. 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
Oscar Wilde
Emily Dickinson
Macbeth
CS Lewis
22. 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
SE Hinton
Christopher Marlowe
Frankenstein
Jane Eyre
23. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism
Scott O'Dell
Lord Byron
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jerry Spinelli
24. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker
Countee Cullen
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ester Forbes
Emily Dickinson
25. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Beloved
Jean Craighead George
Walt Whitman
'In Reference to her Children'
26. Wrote Sonnet 18 - Hamlet - and Macbeth; greatest playwright who ever lived - prolific poet - known for sonnets
William Shakespeare
Richard Adams
The Bell Jar
William Butler Yeats
27. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
The Catcher in the Rye
The Pigman
Kate Dicamillo
Aurora Leigh
28. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Alice In Wonderland
Ruth Avi
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Christopher Marlowe
29. 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
F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Shakespeare
Sharon Creech
Not Without Laughter
30. 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
Willa Cather
The Call of the Wild
Sandra Cisneros
Ernest Hemingway
31. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Avi
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Edith Wharton
The Picture of Dorian Gray
32. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Lois Lowry
Patricia Maclachlan
Ester Forbes
Ray Bradbury
33. 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
TS Eliot
John Keats
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Ralph Waldo Emerson
34. Wrote The Aeneid
Beowulf
Virgil
Kate Chopin
Washington Irving
35. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
Gary Paulson
Sonnet 18
Toni Morrison
HG Wells
36. Wrote Hoot
Watership Down
Carl Hiaason
Christopher Marlowe
Gary Paulson
37. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ray Bradbury
Frankenstein
Elizabeth George Speare
38. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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39. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
F. Scott Fitzgerald
John Keats
Sylvia Plath
The Call of the Wild
40. Wrote Ethan Frome
JRR Tolkein
Zora Neale Hurston
Frederick Douglass
Edith Wharton
41. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Elizabeth George Speare
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Oscar Wilde
Sonnet 18
42. 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
Katherine Patterson
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Outsiders
Lewis Carroll
43. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
Watership Down
Edith Wharton
Anne Bradstreet
Not Without Laughter
44. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Robert Frost
Walter Dean Myers
Kate Chopin
Maya Angelou
45. 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
EB White
David Copperfield
The Aeneid
Maya Angelou
46. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
Robinson Crusoe
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Jerry Spinelli
Frederick Douglass
47. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Mildred Taylor
Lois Lowry
TS Eliot
Edith Wharton
48. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
Ester Forbes
Helen Keller
'Self - Reliance'
Carl Hiaason
49. 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
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Helen Keller
Louisa May Alcott
Farenheit 451
50. Wrote Hatchet
The Aeneid
Mary Downing Hahn
Gary Paulson
Edgar Allan Poe