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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote The Hobbit
Emily Dickinson
Moby Dick
JRR Tolkein
Sharon Creech
2. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
Ben Mikaelson
Amy Tan
John Keats
Nathaniel Hawthorne
3. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
The Great Gatsby
Harper Lee
Katherine Patterson
Lord of the Flies
4. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
S.E. Hinton
Christopher Marlowe
To Kill a Mockingbird
Their Eyes Were Watching God
5. Wrote The House on Mango Street
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Frederick Douglass
Sandra Cisneros
6. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Alice Walker
Zora Neale Hurston
Daniel Defoe
Mary Shelley
7. Wrote Charlotte's Web
Sylvia Plath
Robinson Crusoe
EB White
Emily Dickinson
8. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
The Pigman
The Call of the Wild
Frederick Douglass
Beloved
9. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
SE Hinton
William Golding
1984
Ruth Avi
10. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Amy Tan
'In Reference to her Children'
Kate Chopin
Mary Shelley
11. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
Elizabeth George Speare
Crime and Punishment
Madeline L'Engle
Mildred Taylor
12. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
Paul Zindel
Charles Dickens
Daniel Defoe
Kate Dicamillo
13. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Jean Craighead George
Ray Bradbury
Beowulf
Beloved
14. Wrote Watership Down
Henry David Thoreau
Richard Adams
Beowulf
Caroline Cooney
15. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
Watership Down
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Ernest Hemingway
Helen Keller
16. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Carl Hiaason
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
EB White
Emily Bronte
17. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
Crime and Punishment
Robert Frost
Walt Whitman
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
18. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Farenheit 451
Leo Tolstoy
Crime and Punishment
Edith Wharton
19. 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
Charles Dickens
Frederick Douglass
Mark Twain
Their Eyes Were Watching God
20. Wrote Ethan Frome
Robinson Crusoe
Edith Wharton
Jane Austen
William Golding
21. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
Caroline Cooney
Farenheit 451
William Butler Yeats
Ralph Waldo Emerson
22. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
Virginia Woolf
The Great Gatsby
Anne Frank
TS Eliot
23. 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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24. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Christopher Marlowe
Sharon Creech
Lord of the Flies
Katherine Patterson
25. 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
Louisa May Alcott
TS Eliot
Animal Farm
Karen Hesse
26. Wrote The Outsiders
Charles Dickens
SE Hinton
William Golding
Paul Zindel
27. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
Emily Bronte
Alice In Wonderland
William Golding
Katherine Patterson
28. Wrote Shiloh
Beloved
Sonnet 18
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
SE Hinton
29. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Wendy Towle
Macbeth
Kate Chopin
Stephen Crane
30. 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
Mary Downing Hahn
Lois Lowry
Avi
Watership Down
31. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe
Ruth Avi
Beloved
Animal Farm
The Aeneid
32. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Mary Shelley
Jane Austen
Christopher Marlowe
Willa Cather
33. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Moby Dick
William Wordsworth
Christopher Marlowe
34. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Sharon Creech
Scott O'Dell
Anne Frank
SE Hinton
35. '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
Helen Keller
Sonnet 18
Not Without Laughter
Kate Dicamillo
36. 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 Giver
Madeline L'Engle
Jane Austen
Daniel Defoe
37. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
Henry David Thoreau
HG Wells
Avi
Oscar Wilde
38. 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
Mary Downing Hahn
Not Without Laughter
Jane Austen
The Joy Luck Club
39. Wrote Johnny Tremain
The Aeneid
Ester Forbes
William Butler Yeats
Daniel Defoe
40. Wrote Sonnet 18 - Hamlet - and Macbeth; greatest playwright who ever lived - prolific poet - known for sonnets
William Shakespeare
Karen Hesse
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nathaniel Hawthorne
41. 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
Ernest Hemingway
William Armstrong
Patricia Maclachlan
42. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Johann David Wyss
Crime and Punishment
Sandra Cisneros
Sonnet 18
43. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Sharon Creech
Emily Bronte
Geoffrey Chaucer
Aphra Behn
44. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Not Without Laughter
Anna Karenina
Ernest Hemingway
Frankenstein
45. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Mary Downing Hahn
Alice In Wonderland
The Giver
The Outsiders
46. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Little Women
Harper Lee
Ben Mikaelson
47. Wrote Doctor Faustus
Mary Shelley
Christopher Marlowe
Farenheit 451
William Golding
48. Wrote Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Mansfield Park - et al.
Jane Austen
Scott O'Dell
Louisa May Alcott
Mary Downing Hahn
49. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Langston Hughes
Mark Twain
Kate Dicamillo
Robert Frost
50. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Frankenstein
Oscar Wilde
The Red Badge of Courage
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
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