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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
Stephen Crane
William Wordsworth
David Copperfield
The Catcher in the Rye
2. Wrote Wuthering Heights
Macbeth
Emily Bronte
HG Wells
Robert Frost
3. Wrote Holes
Louis Sacher
To Kill a Mockingbird
1984
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
4. Four March sisters (Amy - Jo - Beth - Meg) in 19th century New England struggle with poverty - juggle their duties - and their desire to find love
EB White
Daniel Defoe
Little Women
Lewis Carroll
5. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anne Frank
Virgil
Anna Karenina
6. Wrote Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Ester Forbes
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Toni Morrison
7. Wrote 'Civil Disobedience;' American author - poet - naturalist - tax resister - development critic - surveyor - historian - philosopher - and leading transcendentalist
Alice Walker
Ben Mikaelson
Robinson Crusoe
Henry David Thoreau
8. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
Zora Neale Hurston
Louis Sacher
Anne Bradstreet
Christopher Marlowe
9. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Anne Bradstreet
Ray Bradbury
Walt Whitman
Fyodor Dostoevsky
10. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
To Kill a Mockingbird
Macbeth
Sandra Cisneros
11. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Helen Keller
John Keats
Richard Adams
12. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
Walt Whitman
Herman Melville
Fyodor Dostoevsky
William Golding
13. Wrote The Pigman
Beowulf
EB White
Paul Zindel
Herman Melville
14. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
The Catcher in the Rye
Crime and Punishment
Jerry Spinelli
George Orwell
15. 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;
Jane Eyre
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Lois Lowry
The Giver
16. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
SE Hinton
James Joyce
Anne Frank
The Joy Luck Club
17. Wrote Mrs. Dalloway - Night and Day - The Voyage Out - and Jacob's Room; English novelist and essayist; one of the foremost modernist literary figures of 20th century
Washington Irving
Virginia Woolf
JD Salinger
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
18. Wrote Maniac Magee
Jerry Spinelli
Christopher Marlowe
James Joyce
Countee Cullen
19. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe
Jane Eyre
Langston Hughes
Beloved
Anne Frank
20. 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
Walt Whitman
Countee Cullen
William Wordsworth
Ruth Avi
21. Wrote The Glory Field
Walter Dean Myers
Ray Bradbury
Emily Bronte
Christopher Marlowe
22. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Wendy Towle
Langston Hughes
'Self - Reliance'
1984
23. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Kate Dicamillo
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Stephen Crane
Oscar Wilde
24. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Jean Craighead George
William Shakespeare
Walter Dean Myers
William Golding
25. Wrote Night
Elie Wiesel
Amy Tan
Animal Farm
Ralph Waldo Emerson
26. Wrote The Yearling
Carl Hiaason
Maya Angelou
Kate Chopin
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
27. Wrote Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Mansfield Park - et al.
Beloved
Jane Austen
William Shakespeare
The Great Gatsby
28. Wrote Hoot
Carl Hiaason
JD Salinger
Louisa May Alcott
Ernest Hemingway
29. Wrote Doctor Faustus
Harper Lee
Christopher Marlowe
Aphra Behn
Percy Bysshe Shelley
30. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Patterson
Countee Cullen
Toni Morrison
Lois Lowry
31. 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
Watership Down
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Louis Sacher
Leo Tolstoy
32. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Moby Dick
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Elizabeth George Speare
Ray Bradbury
33. 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
The Call of the Wild
Stephen Crane
Washington Irving
Lord Byron
34. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
Patricia Maclachlan
Kate Dicamillo
Leo Tolstoy
The Joy Luck Club
35. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Mark Twain
David Copperfield
Leo Tolstoy
EB White
36. Wrote Roll of Thunder
Mary Shelley
Mildred Taylor
JD Salinger
Louis Sacher
37. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Anna Karenina
Emily Bronte
Jerry Spinelli
Christopher Paul Curtis
38. '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
Jack London
William Armstrong
Sonnet 18
Alice In Wonderland
39. Wrote Sonnet 18 - Hamlet - and Macbeth; greatest playwright who ever lived - prolific poet - known for sonnets
William Shakespeare
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Robinson Crusoe
40. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Joy Luck Club
Jack London
Charles Dickens
41. 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
Gary Paulson
John Keats
TS Eliot
Kate Dicamillo
42. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
The Giver
Mary Downing Hahn
William Wordsworth
Anna Karenina
43. An impoverished young woman (Jane) struggles to maintain her autonomy in the face of oppression - prejudice - and love; Gothic novel - bildungsroman - social portest novel
Jane Eyre
EB White
Richard Adams
Mildred Taylor
44. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
Charles Dickens
To Kill a Mockingbird
Ruth Avi
Richard Adams
45. 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
The Catcher in the Rye
Animal Farm
Edith Wharton
Elie Wiesel
46. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Anna Karenina
Robert Cormier
Amy Tan
Richard Adams
47. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
Caroline Cooney
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Karen Hesse
Countee Cullen
48. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
Wendy Towle
Mildred Taylor
Frederick Douglass
Jerry Spinelli
49. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
Mary Shelley
Kate Dicamillo
Holes
EB White
50. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
The Great Gatsby
Robert Cormier
JRR Tolkein
Anne Bradstreet