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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. 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
Caroline Cooney
Charlotte Bronte
Lord Byron
2. Wrote The Canterbury Tales
JRR Tolkein
'Self - Reliance'
Louisa May Alcott
Geoffrey Chaucer
3. Wrote Ethan Frome
William Wordsworth
Edith Wharton
Robert Frost
Nathaniel Hawthorne
4. 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
Robert Frost
Virgil
Mildred Taylor
The Red Badge of Courage
5. Wrote Hoot
John Keats
Aurora Leigh
Carl Hiaason
To Kill a Mockingbird
6. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Jerry Spinelli
The Outsiders
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mark Twain
7. Wrote Roll of Thunder
Katherine Patterson
Mildred Taylor
Harper Lee
Karen Hesse
8. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
SE Hinton
Fyodor Dostoevsky
To Kill a Mockingbird
Not Without Laughter
9. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
The Outsiders
Zora Neale Hurston
David Copperfield
Farenheit 451
10. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
The Catcher in the Rye
Ernest Hemingway
Herman Melville
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
11. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
William Armstrong
S.E. Hinton
Ray Bradbury
Oscar Wilde
12. 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
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Edith Wharton
William Golding
Carl Hiaason
13. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Herman Melville
Countee Cullen
Johann David Wyss
Maya Angelou
14. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
HG Wells
Little Women
Ben Mikaelson
Ruth Avi
15. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Macbeth
Animal Farm
Helen Keller
Leo Tolstoy
16. 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
Oscar Wilde
David Copperfield
Zora Neale Hurston
Katherine Patterson
17. Wrote Night
Not Without Laughter
Elie Wiesel
Aurora Leigh
Willa Cather
18. Wrote Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Mansfield Park - et al.
Jerry Spinelli
Robinson Crusoe
Jane Austen
Langston Hughes
19. Wrote Julie of the Wolves
Edith Wharton
Jean Craighead George
Amy Tan
Maya Angelou
20. 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
Anna Karenina
Frederick Douglass
Holes
Ben Mikaelson
21. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Little Women
Gary Paulson
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
22. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
Anne Bradstreet
Watership Down
The Call of the Wild
James Joyce
23. Wrote The Outsiders
Gary Paulson
Washington Irving
SE Hinton
Fyodor Dostoevsky
24. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Aphra Behn
Kate Dicamillo
Washington Irving
Farenheit 451
25. Wrote Jane Eyre
The Red Badge of Courage
Charlotte Bronte
Zora Neale Hurston
Anne Bradstreet
26. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
Mary Downing Hahn
The Red Badge of Courage
Walt Whitman
Moby Dick
27. NOT anti - society or anti - community; presupposes that the mind is initially the subject to an unhappy conformity; calls on individuals to value their own thoughts - opinions - experiences above those presented to them by other individuals - societ
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28. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Daniel Defoe
Charles Dickens
S.E. Hinton
Ester Forbes
29. Wrote The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Outsiders
Christopher Marlowe
Emily Dickinson
30. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel
Virginia Woolf
Richard Adams
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Jack London
31. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
1984
Walter Dean Myers
William Wordsworth
Oscar Wilde
32. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
William Armstrong
George Orwell
Robinson Crusoe
Emily Dickinson
33. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
Virgil
Henry David Thoreau
Zora Neale Hurston
Aurora Leigh
34. Wrote The Yearling
Leo Tolstoy
Lois Lowry
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Watership Down
35. 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
Daniel Defoe
Edith Wharton
Watership Down
36. 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
Ruth Avi
Farenheit 451
Caroline Cooney
Watership Down
37. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang
Jack London
Jane Austen
Crime and Punishment
Ralph Waldo Emerson
38. Wrote Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe
Alice In Wonderland
Mark Twain
Emily Dickinson
39. 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
John Keats
Anna Karenina
Emily Dickinson
Madeline L'Engle
40. Wrote Hatchet
Gary Paulson
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Alice In Wonderland
Elizabeth George Speare
41. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Richard Adams
Jane Austen
Lewis Carroll
42. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
Anne Bradstreet
James Joyce
'Self - Reliance'
Beowulf
43. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
Beowulf
Not Without Laughter
The Great Gatsby
Jack London
44. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Ben Mikaelson
Walter Dean Myers
William Armstrong
Wendy Towle
45. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Sharon Creech
'In Reference to her Children'
Lewis Carroll
Robert Cormier
46. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
John Keats
Kate Chopin
William Butler Yeats
Wendy Towle
47. Wrote Holes
Emily Bronte
Helen Keller
Kate Dicamillo
Louis Sacher
48. Wrote Sonnet 18 - Hamlet - and Macbeth; greatest playwright who ever lived - prolific poet - known for sonnets
Holes
William Shakespeare
CS Lewis
Ruth Avi
49. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
Johann David Wyss
Watership Down
The Pigman
Helen Keller
50. 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
Henry David Thoreau
The Outsiders
Geoffrey Chaucer
Virginia Woolf