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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Mansfield Park - et al.
Jack London
Jane Austen
Madeline L'Engle
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
2. Wrote The Pigman
Paul Zindel
Kate Chopin
The Picture of Dorian Gray
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
3. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism
JRR Tolkein
Lord Byron
Wendy Towle
TS Eliot
4. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Toni Morrison
Katherine Patterson
Willa Cather
Helen Keller
5. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
Helen Keller
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Zora Neale Hurston
6. 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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7. Wrote Watership Down
Watership Down
'Civil Disobedience'
Stephen Crane
Richard Adams
8. Wrote The Awakening - The Storm; feminist author of the 20th century; born in St. Louis - Missouri
Karen Hesse
Lois Lowry
Kate Chopin
Anne Frank
9. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Wendy Towle
The Pigman
Mark Twain
Caroline Cooney
10. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Holes
Caroline Cooney
Leo Tolstoy
Frederick Douglass
11. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lord of the Flies
Gary Paulson
Ester Forbes
12. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Sharon Creech
Mary Shelley
Patricia Maclachlan
The Aeneid
13. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
Frederick Douglass
John Keats
Anne Bradstreet
Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Alice In Wonderland
Lois Lowry
SE Hinton
S.E. Hinton
15. 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.
Crime and Punishment
Sandra Cisneros
The Aeneid
Jerry Spinelli
16. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
The Bell Jar
Frankenstein
Amy Tan
Jean Craighead George
17. Wrote Ethan Frome
William Wordsworth
Henry David Thoreau
The Catcher in the Rye
Edith Wharton
18. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
JD Salinger
Crime and Punishment
Christopher Paul Curtis
William Butler Yeats
19. A man is shipwrecked on an island - where he lives for more than 20 years - fending off cannibals and creating a pleasant life for himself
Robinson Crusoe
Stephen Crane
William Golding
The Great Gatsby
20. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Maya Angelou
Alice In Wonderland
Caroline Cooney
JD Salinger
21. Wrote Little Women; American novelist
Robert Frost
Louisa May Alcott
Scott O'Dell
Gary Paulson
22. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
Geoffrey Chaucer
Frankenstein
Charles Dickens
Jane Austen
23. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
Walt Whitman
Aurora Leigh
Oscar Wilde
S.E. Hinton
24. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
Sharon Creech
Karen Hesse
JRR Tolkein
25. 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
Robert Cormier
Charlotte Bronte
JD Salinger
Macbeth
26. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
Holes
Willa Cather
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Call of the Wild
27. Wrote Out of the Dust
Karen Hesse
CS Lewis
Charlotte Bronte
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
28. Wrote The Hobbit
JRR Tolkein
Edith Wharton
Holes
Harper Lee
29. It is set in a future society which is at first presented as a utopian society and gradually appears more and more dystopian; therefore - it could be considered anti - utopian; the novel follows a boy named Jonas through the twelfth year of his life;
The Great Gatsby
Virgil
The Giver
HG Wells
30. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Oscar Wilde
Sandra Cisneros
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Beloved
31. Wrote The Aeneid
John Keats
Lewis Carroll
Emily Dickinson
Virgil
32. Wrote Sounder
The Giver
Alice Walker
William Armstrong
Geoffrey Chaucer
33. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
Karen Hesse
Not Without Laughter
Robinson Crusoe
TS Eliot
34. Wrote Holes
Louis Sacher
Ben Mikaelson
Kate Dicamillo
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
35. 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
Mildred Taylor
The Bell Jar
1984
36. 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
Jerry Spinelli
Jean Craighead George
Gary Paulson
Frankenstein
37. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
Alice In Wonderland
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
HG Wells
JRR Tolkein
38. 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
Langston Hughes
Jane Eyre
Lord Byron
Helen Keller
39. Wrote The Chocolate War
TS Eliot
Robert Cormier
Beloved
Zora Neale Hurston
40. 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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41. 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
The Pigman
William Wordsworth
Geoffrey Chaucer
S.E. Hinton
42. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
Christopher Paul Curtis
Harper Lee
Countee Cullen
Nancy Farmer
43. Wrote The House on Mango Street
David Copperfield
Sandra Cisneros
Carl Hiaason
1984
44. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
The Red Badge of Courage
Helen Keller
James Joyce
Jane Eyre
45. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Willa Cather
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Avi
William Armstrong
46. Wrote Jane Eyre
Robert Frost
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
The Great Gatsby
Charlotte Bronte
47. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
Christopher Paul Curtis
Alice In Wonderland
Jack London
Sharon Creech
48. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
The Giver
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Aeneid
HG Wells
49. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
Walt Whitman
F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Wordsworth
Mark Twain
50. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Virginia Woolf
Macbeth
The Catcher in the Rye