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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. 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
Johann David Wyss
Kate Dicamillo
Farenheit 451
The Pigman
2. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
Animal Farm
Macbeth
Frankenstein
Helen Keller
3. 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
SE Hinton
Louisa May Alcott
HG Wells
4. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker
Crime and Punishment
Alice In Wonderland
William Shakespeare
Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Leo Tolstoy
Christopher Paul Curtis
Virgil
Ray Bradbury
6. 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
7. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Robert Cormier
Mark Twain
Sonnet 18
Herman Melville
8. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Daniel Defoe
Willa Cather
1984
9. Wrote Doctor Faustus
Washington Irving
Christopher Marlowe
Paul Zindel
Holes
10. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)
Christopher Paul Curtis
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Aurora Leigh
Stephen Crane
11. Wrote The Yearling
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Elizabeth George Speare
'Civil Disobedience'
TS Eliot
12. 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
Washington Irving
Jane Eyre
John Keats
Alice In Wonderland
13. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
JD Salinger
Mary Shelley
Washington Irving
Robert Cormier
14. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Willa Cather
CS Lewis
Ruth Avi
Daniel Defoe
15. Wrote Wuthering Heights
Countee Cullen
Virginia Woolf
Nancy Farmer
Emily Bronte
16. Wrote The Outsiders
Jane Eyre
S.E. Hinton
HG Wells
'In Reference to her Children'
17. Wrote A Wrinkle in Time - A Swiftly Tilting Planet - A Wind in the Door - The Small Rain - 24 Days before Christmas
18. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
Washington Irving
William Golding
To Kill a Mockingbird
'In Reference to her Children'
19. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Toni Morrison
Maya Angelou
Jack London
Robinson Crusoe
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
Holes
Countee Cullen
JD Salinger
Charlotte Bronte
21. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
Walt Whitman
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Virgil
Crime and Punishment
22. 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
Jack London
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Frankenstein
EB White
23. Wrote Out of the Dust
Karen Hesse
Walt Whitman
Stephen Crane
Emily Dickinson
24. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Leo Tolstoy
The Aeneid
Jean Craighead George
Ray Bradbury
25. 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
Jack London
Christopher Paul Curtis
Beowulf
Madeline L'Engle
26. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Washington Irving
Walt Whitman
The Great Gatsby
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
27. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
Washington Irving
David Copperfield
Nancy Farmer
Holes
28. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
Frankenstein
Richard Adams
'Civil Disobedience'
The Bell Jar
29. '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
S.E. Hinton
Patricia Maclachlan
Madeline L'Engle
Sonnet 18
30. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
Mildred Taylor
Herman Melville
Farenheit 451
Anne Bradstreet
31. Wrote Charlotte's Web
EB White
Harper Lee
Mildred Taylor
Edith Wharton
32. Wrote Sonnet 18 - Hamlet - and Macbeth; greatest playwright who ever lived - prolific poet - known for sonnets
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Sandra Cisneros
William Shakespeare
'Self - Reliance'
33. Wrote Ethan Frome
Caroline Cooney
Edith Wharton
The Call of the Wild
Sandra Cisneros
34. 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
Mary Shelley
The Bell Jar
TS Eliot
Countee Cullen
35. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor
Sandra Cisneros
Wendy Towle
Carl Hiaason
Herman Melville
36. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
Wendy Towle
Mark Twain
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Mary Shelley
37. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
Elizabeth George Speare
Paul Zindel
Oscar Wilde
To Kill a Mockingbird
38. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Zora Neale Hurston
William Shakespeare
Edgar Allan Poe
Mark Twain
39. Wrote Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
1984
Virginia Woolf
Percy Bysshe Shelley
40. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves
Anne Frank
The Great Gatsby
Karen Hesse
Mary Shelley
41. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
The Joy Luck Club
William Golding
Herman Melville
Anna Karenina
42. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism
Little Women
Lord Byron
Willa Cather
Countee Cullen
43. Wrote Maniac Magee
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Butler Yeats
Jerry Spinelli
Mark Twain
44. 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
Virginia Woolf
Walt Whitman
Sandra Cisneros
Aurora Leigh
45. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe
Maya Angelou
Beloved
The Bell Jar
James Joyce
46. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
The Red Badge of Courage
HG Wells
Nathaniel Hawthorne
JD Salinger
47. Wrote The Awakening - The Storm; feminist author of the 20th century; born in St. Louis - Missouri
Kate Chopin
Jane Austen
Lewis Carroll
Nathaniel Hawthorne
48. Wrote The Outsiders
Ruth Avi
Louisa May Alcott
SE Hinton
Washington Irving
49. Wrote Holes
The Call of the Wild
Macbeth
Louis Sacher
Jerry Spinelli
50. 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
Amy Tan
Not Without Laughter
Daniel Defoe
Virgil