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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote Wuthering Heights
Ruth Avi
Emily Bronte
Robert Frost
Patricia Maclachlan
2. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
Aurora Leigh
The Great Gatsby
Alice Walker
Emily Dickinson
3. Wrote The House on Mango Street
Sylvia Plath
Elie Wiesel
Sandra Cisneros
Amy Tan
4. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
Aurora Leigh
Emily Dickinson
Avi
David Copperfield
5. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird; American author
Jerry Spinelli
The Outsiders
Harper Lee
Crime and Punishment
6. Wrote Maniac Magee
Mildred Taylor
Washington Irving
Jerry Spinelli
Leo Tolstoy
7. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Daniel Defoe
Animal Farm
Macbeth
Maya Angelou
8. Wrote The Outsiders
Lord of the Flies
David Copperfield
Ralph Waldo Emerson
S.E. Hinton
9. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Avi
Moby Dick
Lois Lowry
The Call of the Wild
10. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Toni Morrison
To Kill a Mockingbird
Holes
JD Salinger
11. Wrote Roll of Thunder
William Wordsworth
Madeline L'Engle
Mildred Taylor
Animal Farm
12. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
Charlotte Bronte
Carl Hiaason
Katherine Patterson
F. Scott Fitzgerald
13. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
Beowulf
The Red Badge of Courage
Harper Lee
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
14. 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
Countee Cullen
Jane Eyre
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Frankenstein
15. Wrote The Lion - the Witch - and the Wardrobe
Elizabeth George Speare
TS Eliot
CS Lewis
Virgil
16. 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
Richard Adams
The Catcher in the Rye
To Kill a Mockingbird
F. Scott Fitzgerald
17. Wrote Shiloh
Leo Tolstoy
George Orwell
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
The Joy Luck Club
18. Wrote Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Mary Downing Hahn
Karen Hesse
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Farenheit 451
19. '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
Ernest Hemingway
'Civil Disobedience'
Sonnet 18
Zora Neale Hurston
20. An impoverished young woman (Jane) struggles to maintain her autonomy in the face of oppression - prejudice - and love; Gothic novel - bildungsroman - social portest novel
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Lord of the Flies
Jane Eyre
Johann David Wyss
21. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism
Charles Dickens
Caroline Cooney
Virginia Woolf
Lord Byron
22. A black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism - sexism - and lack of power
Wendy Towle
Karen Hesse
Leo Tolstoy
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
23. Wrote Watership Down
Watership Down
Lord of the Flies
Richard Adams
Ray Bradbury
24. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
Anne Bradstreet
Lord Byron
Christopher Marlowe
Ester Forbes
25. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
Kate Dicamillo
HG Wells
Maya Angelou
Little Women
26. Wrote Night
Elie Wiesel
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Edith Wharton
Lewis Carroll
27. 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
'Civil Disobedience'
Robinson Crusoe
Jane Austen
28. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
Macbeth
Moby Dick
George Orwell
Crime and Punishment
29. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lewis Carroll
James Joyce
Ruth Avi
30. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
Walt Whitman
Anne Frank
The Joy Luck Club
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
31. 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
The Outsiders
Zora Neale Hurston
Robert Frost
George Orwell
32. 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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33. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Katherine Patterson
F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Armstrong
Ruth Avi
34. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
Alice Walker
The Bell Jar
Mary Downing Hahn
Lord of the Flies
35. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Mary Shelley
Patricia Maclachlan
Mildred Taylor
William Wordsworth
36. 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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37. Wrote Holes
Countee Cullen
Leo Tolstoy
Louis Sacher
TS Eliot
38. Wrote Charlotte's Web
EB White
Karen Hesse
Lord of the Flies
Robinson Crusoe
39. 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
Zora Neale Hurston
Countee Cullen
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
William Golding
40. 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
The Picture of Dorian Gray
JRR Tolkein
Nancy Farmer
Holes
41. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Zora Neale Hurston
Farenheit 451
Herman Melville
The Picture of Dorian Gray
42. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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43. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
Aurora Leigh
Charles Dickens
Little Women
Lois Lowry
44. Wrote The Weary Blues - The Ways of White Folks - and Not Without Laughter; American poet - novelist - playwright - short story writer - and columnist; early innovator for literary art known as jazz poetry; best known for work during Harlem Renaissan
Ester Forbes
Langston Hughes
Farenheit 451
William Armstrong
45. 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'
Walter Dean Myers
Ernest Hemingway
The Aeneid
Christopher Paul Curtis
46. Wrote Johnny Tremain
Ester Forbes
Zora Neale Hurston
Wendy Towle
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
47. A great warrior - goes to Denmark on a successful mission to kill Grendel; he returns home to Geatland - where he becomes king and slays a dragon before dying; poem; alliterative verse - elegy - small scale heroic epic; author unknown; setting around
Beowulf
John Keats
The Giver
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
48. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Anna Karenina
Helen Keller
Aurora Leigh
Zora Neale Hurston
49. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Alice Walker
Nancy Farmer
Herman Melville
Kate Dicamillo
50. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
Crime and Punishment
JD Salinger
Herman Melville
Edgar Allan Poe