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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote The Hobbit
Richard Adams
Sylvia Plath
Stephen Crane
JRR Tolkein
2. Wrote Charlotte's Web
EB White
Nancy Farmer
Robinson Crusoe
Sylvia Plath
3. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
Not Without Laughter
Macbeth
Countee Cullen
Elizabeth George Speare
4. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
Louis Sacher
Charlotte Bronte
Sylvia Plath
Ernest Hemingway
5. 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
Edgar Allan Poe
Christopher Paul Curtis
Richard Adams
6. Wrote The Yearling
Christopher Paul Curtis
George Orwell
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
CS Lewis
7. Wrote The Pigman
Mildred Taylor
The Giver
Emily Bronte
Paul Zindel
8. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
Robinson Crusoe
William Shakespeare
George Orwell
TS Eliot
9. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
Washington Irving
Stephen Crane
The Aeneid
10. 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
John Keats
Mary Downing Hahn
The Catcher in the Rye
Charlotte Bronte
11. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Emily Dickinson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
SE Hinton
Ray Bradbury
12. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
Geoffrey Chaucer
Amy Tan
Lewis Carroll
Beloved
13. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Johann David Wyss
The Great Gatsby
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lois Lowry
14. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
Ben Mikaelson
William Butler Yeats
Moby Dick
James Joyce
15. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
Holes
Macbeth
Beowulf
The Red Badge of Courage
16. Wrote Little Women; American novelist
Percy Bysshe Shelley
William Golding
SE Hinton
Louisa May Alcott
17. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Toni Morrison
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jean Craighead George
Farenheit 451
18. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
Ray Bradbury
JRR Tolkein
To Kill a Mockingbird
Richard Adams
19. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
HG Wells
Robinson Crusoe
Anne Bradstreet
Christopher Marlowe
20. Wrote Doctor Faustus
Henry David Thoreau
Frankenstein
Christopher Marlowe
The Outsiders
21. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Robert Cormier
Herman Melville
'Self - Reliance'
Helen Keller
22. Wrote Holes
Christopher Paul Curtis
Zora Neale Hurston
Louis Sacher
Patricia Maclachlan
23. 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
Countee Cullen
Edith Wharton
The Call of the Wild
Jane Eyre
24. Wrote Hoot
Scott O'Dell
Herman Melville
Jane Eyre
Carl Hiaason
25. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
Walter Dean Myers
John Keats
Emily Bronte
The Great Gatsby
26. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Amy Tan
Toni Morrison
The Call of the Wild
Anne Bradstreet
27. An impoverished young woman (Jane) struggles to maintain her autonomy in the face of oppression - prejudice - and love; Gothic novel - bildungsroman - social portest novel
Ernest Hemingway
Jane Eyre
James Joyce
HG Wells
28. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Alice Walker
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
The Picture of Dorian Gray
29. 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
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Mark Twain
Elie Wiesel
30. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
Helen Keller
Langston Hughes
Little Women
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
31. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Mark Twain
Mary Shelley
Lord of the Flies
The Pigman
32. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
Edith Wharton
TS Eliot
Christopher Marlowe
HG Wells
33. 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
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mary Shelley
Katherine Patterson
Frankenstein
34. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
Scott O'Dell
William Butler Yeats
James Joyce
Jack London
35. 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
Beloved
Wendy Towle
Ben Mikaelson
Watership Down
36. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Mary Downing Hahn
Christopher Paul Curtis
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emily Bronte
37. 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
Christopher Marlowe
The Catcher in the Rye
Caroline Cooney
Helen Keller
38. 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;
Wendy Towle
Sonnet 18
'Civil Disobedience'
The Giver
39. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
Frederick Douglass
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Avi
Robinson Crusoe
40. 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.
Jerry Spinelli
The Bell Jar
Beowulf
The Aeneid
41. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Sandra Cisneros
Anna Karenina
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Pigman
42. Wrote The Outsiders
Emily Dickinson
'Civil Disobedience'
SE Hinton
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
43. 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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44. 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
Edgar Allan Poe
The Call of the Wild
Jean Craighead George
Watership Down
45. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Elie Wiesel
Sharon Creech
Daniel Defoe
'In Reference to her Children'
46. Wrote Out of the Dust
Daniel Defoe
John Keats
Karen Hesse
Gary Paulson
47. Wrote 'The Road Not Taken;' American poet; highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech; won Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry four times
Zora Neale Hurston
Washington Irving
Helen Keller
Robert Frost
48. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist
Leo Tolstoy
Henry David Thoreau
Herman Melville
The Joy Luck Club
49. Wrote Hatchet
1984
Emily Bronte
Edith Wharton
Gary Paulson
50. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
Jack London
Helen Keller
Patricia Maclachlan
Anne Bradstreet