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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Maya Angelou
Ester Forbes
Lois Lowry
Moby Dick
2. 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
Maya Angelou
Lois Lowry
Stephen Crane
Mark Twain
3. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Wendy Towle
Virginia Woolf
JD Salinger
Emily Bronte
4. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Christopher Marlowe
Alice Walker
William Shakespeare
Johann David Wyss
5. Wrote 'Wild Nights -- Wild Nights!;' 'I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died -' and 'Because I Could Not Stop For Death --;' 19th century poet; major themes: flowers/gardens - the master poems - morbidity - gospel poems - the undiscovered continent; irregula
Emily Dickinson
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Joy Luck Club
Willa Cather
6. Wrote Roll of Thunder
Mildred Taylor
Jane Eyre
Wendy Towle
Macbeth
7. Wrote The Aeneid
Robert Frost
Paul Zindel
Virgil
Moby Dick
8. Wrote Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton
The Aeneid
Willa Cather
Aurora Leigh
9. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Ernest Hemingway
Oscar Wilde
10. Wrote Hoot
Walt Whitman
CS Lewis
Ray Bradbury
Carl Hiaason
11. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Virginia Woolf
Christopher Paul Curtis
The Great Gatsby
Robert Cormier
12. Wrote The Hobbit
Little Women
JRR Tolkein
Lewis Carroll
Sandra Cisneros
13. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
HG Wells
Washington Irving
Farenheit 451
Caroline Cooney
14. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Jean Craighead George
To Kill a Mockingbird
William Golding
TS Eliot
15. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
TS Eliot
Daniel Defoe
Stephen Crane
Anna Karenina
16. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
The Joy Luck Club
Kate Dicamillo
Ben Mikaelson
Ruth Avi
17. Wrote Johnny Tremain
Nancy Farmer
Charlotte Bronte
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ester Forbes
18. Told in chapters alternating from Lorraine's and John's point of view - opens with an 'Oath -' signed by both John and Lorraine - two high school sophomores - in which they swear to tell only the facts - in this 'memorial epic' about their experience
Stephen Crane
Beloved
TS Eliot
The Pigman
19. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
Katherine Patterson
Edith Wharton
Mildred Taylor
Lois Lowry
20. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
Jane Austen
George Orwell
JD Salinger
Robert Cormier
21. 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.
The Aeneid
Harper Lee
Kate Dicamillo
Herman Melville
22. 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
Jerry Spinelli
John Keats
James Joyce
Stephen Crane
23. 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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24. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Scott O'Dell
Gary Paulson
Avi
Kate Dicamillo
25. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Sylvia Plath
John Keats
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Watership Down
26. 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
Caroline Cooney
David Copperfield
'Civil Disobedience'
Not Without Laughter
27. Wrote Wuthering Heights
JRR Tolkein
Nancy Farmer
Emily Bronte
Jean Craighead George
28. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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29. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
Patricia Maclachlan
Maya Angelou
The Aeneid
Lord Byron
30. Wrote Little Women; American novelist
Anna Karenina
Fyodor Dostoevsky
John Keats
Louisa May Alcott
31. An impoverished young woman (Jane) struggles to maintain her autonomy in the face of oppression - prejudice - and love; Gothic novel - bildungsroman - social portest novel
Oscar Wilde
Jane Eyre
Mildred Taylor
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
32. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Frankenstein
Herman Melville
Robert Frost
F. Scott Fitzgerald
33. 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
The Aeneid
Louis Sacher
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Catcher in the Rye
34. Wrote Charlotte's Web
Mildred Taylor
Emily Dickinson
Christopher Paul Curtis
EB White
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
Jack London
Crime and Punishment
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Aphra Behn
36. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
Richard Adams
Caroline Cooney
Emily Bronte
George Orwell
37. Wrote The Eye - the Ear - and the Arm
Madeline L'Engle
Nancy Farmer
William Butler Yeats
Richard Adams
38. Book written by George Orwell - announced an insane world of dehumanization through terror in which the individual was systematically obliterated by an all - power elite; key phrases: Big Brother - doublethink - Newspeak - the Ministry of Peace...Tru
1984
Moby Dick
Edgar Allan Poe
Willa Cather
39. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
William Butler Yeats
'Self - Reliance'
Mark Twain
Daniel Defoe
40. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave
JRR Tolkein
Frederick Douglass
Alice In Wonderland
Helen Keller
41. Wrote The House on Mango Street
Nancy Farmer
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Beowulf
Sandra Cisneros
42. 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
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Animal Farm
Beowulf
Virgil
43. Wrote The Outsiders
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Christopher Marlowe
SE Hinton
Jane Austen
44. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Mary Downing Hahn
CS Lewis
Beowulf
Jerry Spinelli
45. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Katherine Patterson
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Helen Keller
Alice Walker
46. '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
Langston Hughes
Nathaniel Hawthorne
'In Reference to her Children'
Sonnet 18
47. Wrote Doctor Faustus
Jane Eyre
Christopher Marlowe
Amy Tan
The Aeneid
48. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Carl Hiaason
EB White
Anne Frank
David Copperfield
49. Wrote Maniac Magee
Jerry Spinelli
The Great Gatsby
Ernest Hemingway
Avi
50. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe
The Catcher in the Rye
Charles Dickens
Beloved
Sandra Cisneros
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