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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. 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
JD Salinger
William Butler Yeats
Stephen Crane
CS Lewis
2. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
The Pigman
The Outsiders
TS Eliot
Katherine Patterson
3. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Jerry Spinelli
John Keats
Ruth Avi
Jane Austen
4. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
Ester Forbes
Emily Dickinson
Anne Bradstreet
Scott O'Dell
5. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lord Byron
Mark Twain
Willa Cather
6. Wrote Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
John Keats
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Red Badge of Courage
7. Wrote The Outsiders
Edgar Allan Poe
James Joyce
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
S.E. Hinton
8. 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
Virgil
Robinson Crusoe
Mary Shelley
9. 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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10. 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
The Red Badge of Courage
Sharon Creech
Macbeth
Alice In Wonderland
11. Wrote The Great Gatsby
Louisa May Alcott
Beowulf
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lord Byron
12. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Zora Neale Hurston
Lois Lowry
William Butler Yeats
Animal Farm
13. Wrote The Yearling
Sharon Creech
Not Without Laughter
Anna Karenina
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
14. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
William Golding
Ernest Hemingway
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Zora Neale Hurston
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.
Anne Frank
The Aeneid
William Butler Yeats
Robinson Crusoe
16. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
Anna Karenina
Nancy Farmer
The Great Gatsby
Patricia Maclachlan
17. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
Elizabeth George Speare
JRR Tolkein
The Call of the Wild
Ruth Avi
18. Wrote The Glory Field
Walter Dean Myers
Christopher Marlowe
Willa Cather
William Armstrong
19. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Leo Tolstoy
Anne Frank
Beloved
Maya Angelou
20. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
Maya Angelou
Patricia Maclachlan
Lewis Carroll
Christopher Marlowe
21. Wrote Watership Down
TS Eliot
HG Wells
Richard Adams
Percy Bysshe Shelley
22. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
Edgar Allan Poe
The Great Gatsby
Mark Twain
The Bell Jar
23. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
The Bell Jar
Robinson Crusoe
Ray Bradbury
JRR Tolkein
24. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Anna Karenina
Robinson Crusoe
James Joyce
Jean Craighead George
25. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Anne Frank
1984
Harper Lee
Macbeth
26. 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
Avi
The Catcher in the Rye
Elie Wiesel
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
27. Wrote The Aeneid
William Butler Yeats
Virgil
Lord Byron
John Keats
28. 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
Lois Lowry
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Call of the Wild
29. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
The Bell Jar
1984
James Joyce
Mary Downing Hahn
30. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
Watership Down
The Pigman
Geoffrey Chaucer
Toni Morrison
31. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
Zora Neale Hurston
Elie Wiesel
EB White
Sharon Creech
32. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
Willa Cather
Lewis Carroll
Christopher Paul Curtis
Mary Shelley
33. Wrote Out of the Dust
Sharon Creech
Herman Melville
Karen Hesse
Willa Cather
34. Wrote Wuthering Heights
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Madeline L'Engle
Emily Bronte
Not Without Laughter
35. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
Oscar Wilde
Langston Hughes
Frederick Douglass
Aurora Leigh
36. '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
Geoffrey Chaucer
Anne Frank
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Sonnet 18
37. Wrote The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros
Madeline L'Engle
To Kill a Mockingbird
Robert Cormier
38. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
Elie Wiesel
TS Eliot
Mildred Taylor
Their Eyes Were Watching God
39. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
Kate Dicamillo
The Great Gatsby
John Keats
To Kill a Mockingbird
40. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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41. In an attempt to prove a theory - a student (Raskolnikov) murders two women - after which he suffers greatly from guilt and worry; psychological drama - setting in the 1860s
Leo Tolstoy
Emily Dickinson
Karen Hesse
Crime and Punishment
42. 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
Elie Wiesel
Frankenstein
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Oscar Wilde
43. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Anna Karenina
John Keats
Maya Angelou
Sylvia Plath
44. Wrote Ethan Frome
Sharon Creech
Edith Wharton
Elizabeth George Speare
Frederick Douglass
45. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Animal Farm
Geoffrey Chaucer
Avi
Helen Keller
46. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Ben Mikaelson
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Animal Farm
Mary Downing Hahn
47. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
Mildred Taylor
Aurora Leigh
'In Reference to her Children'
Lord Byron
48. 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
To Kill a Mockingbird
Louis Sacher
The Joy Luck Club
Watership Down
49. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1984
Elie Wiesel
The Giver
50. Wrote The Chocolate War
James Joyce
Robert Cormier
Caroline Cooney
To Kill a Mockingbird