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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
The Joy Luck Club
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Geoffrey Chaucer
James Joyce
2. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Amy Tan
Animal Farm
Anna Karenina
Sandra Cisneros
3. Wrote The Outsiders
JD Salinger
Walter Dean Myers
Amy Tan
S.E. Hinton
4. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Carl Hiaason
Herman Melville
Walter Dean Myers
Wendy Towle
5. Wrote A Wrinkle in Time - A Swiftly Tilting Planet - A Wind in the Door - The Small Rain - 24 Days before Christmas
6. Wrote Wuthering Heights
Paul Zindel
Katherine Patterson
Emily Bronte
William Golding
7. Wrote The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Not Without Laughter
Robinson Crusoe
Beowulf
8. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Zora Neale Hurston
Ray Bradbury
Avi
Virgil
9. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Ruth Avi
The Joy Luck Club
William Wordsworth
Johann David Wyss
10. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
Frederick Douglass
Zora Neale Hurston
1984
Maya Angelou
11. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
12. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Oscar Wilde
Richard Adams
Lord Byron
Henry David Thoreau
13. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Mildred Taylor
Toni Morrison
Macbeth
Mary Shelley
14. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
Jack London
Madeline L'Engle
Emily Bronte
Little Women
15. 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
JD Salinger
TS Eliot
David Copperfield
Avi
16. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Lois Lowry
'Civil Disobedience'
Anne Frank
Wendy Towle
17. Wrote The Awakening - The Storm; feminist author of the 20th century; born in St. Louis - Missouri
Geoffrey Chaucer
Daniel Defoe
Kate Chopin
Herman Melville
18. Wrote The Hobbit
Moby Dick
JRR Tolkein
Jerry Spinelli
James Joyce
19. 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
Elizabeth George Speare
Lois Lowry
The Picture of Dorian Gray
20. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
HG Wells
Mark Twain
Sharon Creech
Toni Morrison
21. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Nancy Farmer
Jean Craighead George
Anne Frank
Kate Dicamillo
22. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
To Kill a Mockingbird
Mary Downing Hahn
CS Lewis
23. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Jean Craighead George
Johann David Wyss
Christopher Paul Curtis
24. Wrote Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton
Zora Neale Hurston
The Great Gatsby
Percy Bysshe Shelley
25. Wrote A Farewell to Arms - The Old Man and the Sea - and The Sun Also Rises; American writer and journalist; veteran of WWI - belongs to literary movement called 'The Lost Generation'
Kate Chopin
Emily Bronte
Ernest Hemingway
Mildred Taylor
26. Wrote Watership Down
The Bell Jar
Robert Frost
David Copperfield
Richard Adams
27. Wrote Sounder
Jack London
JRR Tolkein
The Red Badge of Courage
William Armstrong
28. A monomaniacal captain tries and fails to kill a monstrous white whale; adventure story - quest tale - allegory; protagonist: Ishmael - Ahab; antogonist: Ahab - great white sperm whale
Charles Dickens
Lewis Carroll
The Call of the Wild
Moby Dick
29. Wrote Hatchet
Gary Paulson
Beloved
Kate Chopin
Their Eyes Were Watching God
30. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
Sharon Creech
William Butler Yeats
The Joy Luck Club
Elizabeth George Speare
31. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist
Harper Lee
Henry David Thoreau
Mildred Taylor
Jack London
32. Wrote Sonnet 18 - Hamlet - and Macbeth; greatest playwright who ever lived - prolific poet - known for sonnets
Robinson Crusoe
William Shakespeare
Herman Melville
Anna Karenina
33. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
Sylvia Plath
Mary Downing Hahn
The Bell Jar
Ruth Avi
34. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Louis Sacher
Robert Cormier
Daniel Defoe
Anne Frank
35. 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
Virgil
Leo Tolstoy
Jack London
Crime and Punishment
36. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker
Robert Frost
Ralph Waldo Emerson
'Civil Disobedience'
Scott O'Dell
37. Wrote The Chocolate War
Robert Cormier
Walt Whitman
Gary Paulson
Christopher Marlowe
38. 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
The Joy Luck Club
The Red Badge of Courage
Jean Craighead George
Lord of the Flies
39. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
JD Salinger
John Keats
Virgil
Nancy Farmer
40. Wrote Maniac Magee
Louisa May Alcott
Christopher Paul Curtis
Jerry Spinelli
JRR Tolkein
41. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
Ernest Hemingway
Anne Bradstreet
Kate Dicamillo
'In Reference to her Children'
42. 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
Amy Tan
Their Eyes Were Watching God
1984
Jack London
43. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Washington Irving
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville
44. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
Charlotte Bronte
Countee Cullen
Henry David Thoreau
HG Wells
45. 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
Elie Wiesel
Christopher Paul Curtis
Robinson Crusoe
Oscar Wilde
46. 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
CS Lewis
Macbeth
Beowulf
Little Women
47. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Walt Whitman
Mary Downing Hahn
Virgil
Carl Hiaason
48. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Leo Tolstoy
Richard Adams
Oscar Wilde
Sylvia Plath
49. Wrote Little Women; American novelist
Leo Tolstoy
Jerry Spinelli
Louisa May Alcott
Emily Dickinson
50. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Avi
The Catcher in the Rye
The Picture of Dorian Gray