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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Robert Frost
Emily Dickinson
Christopher Paul Curtis
Jack London
2. Wrote Sonnet 18 - Hamlet - and Macbeth; greatest playwright who ever lived - prolific poet - known for sonnets
Kate Dicamillo
Macbeth
William Shakespeare
William Golding
3. 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
Jerry Spinelli
SE Hinton
Ruth Avi
4. Wrote Out of the Dust
Ben Mikaelson
Karen Hesse
Macbeth
George Orwell
5. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
CS Lewis
Zora Neale Hurston
Willa Cather
Langston Hughes
6. Wrote The Chocolate War
David Copperfield
Robert Cormier
Lord of the Flies
F. Scott Fitzgerald
7. 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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8. Wrote Hatchet
Lord of the Flies
George Orwell
Gary Paulson
William Shakespeare
9. Wrote Hoot
To Kill a Mockingbird
Carl Hiaason
Countee Cullen
Lord Byron
10. 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
Walt Whitman
Virginia Woolf
Maya Angelou
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
11. Wrote The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds - The Time Machine
Holes
HG Wells
Washington Irving
Watership Down
12. Wrote The Lion - the Witch - and the Wardrobe
The Bell Jar
CS Lewis
William Armstrong
Farenheit 451
13. Wrote Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Kate Chopin
David Copperfield
Holes
14. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
Emily Bronte
Ernest Hemingway
Ben Mikaelson
Virginia Woolf
15. A girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures; children's novel; fantasy
Alice In Wonderland
George Orwell
S.E. Hinton
Moby Dick
16. Wrote Johnny Tremain
Ester Forbes
'In Reference to her Children'
Crime and Punishment
Moby Dick
17. Wrote Ethan Frome
Patricia Maclachlan
Edith Wharton
Louisa May Alcott
Zora Neale Hurston
18. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty
William Armstrong
Lord of the Flies
JD Salinger
Lord Byron
19. 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
Johann David Wyss
Mildred Taylor
Anna Karenina
Their Eyes Were Watching God
20. Wrote The Glory Field
Little Women
Mark Twain
Walter Dean Myers
Lord Byron
21. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Anna Karenina
John Keats
Jerry Spinelli
The Bell Jar
22. Wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Jane Eyre
Johann David Wyss
The Outsiders
EB White
23. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
Herman Melville
1984
Elizabeth George Speare
Helen Keller
24. 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
David Copperfield
William Wordsworth
Mark Twain
Frederick Douglass
25. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Ray Bradbury
Not Without Laughter
Macbeth
Jane Eyre
26. Wrote The Great Gatsby
SE Hinton
Robinson Crusoe
Christopher Marlowe
F. Scott Fitzgerald
27. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
Mildred Taylor
Watership Down
Madeline L'Engle
Mary Downing Hahn
28. A man is shipwrecked on an island - where he lives for more than 20 years - fending off cannibals and creating a pleasant life for himself
Christopher Marlowe
Robinson Crusoe
Walter Dean Myers
Sandra Cisneros
29. 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
Gary Paulson
The Call of the Wild
EB White
30. Wrote The Yearling
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Emily Bronte
To Kill a Mockingbird
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
31. A group of Chinese mothers and their American - born daughters struggle to communicate and understand each other; four families dipicted Woo - Jong - Hsu - and St. Clair
Stephen Crane
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
The Joy Luck Club
Elie Wiesel
32. 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
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Macbeth
Sylvia Plath
33. 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
Countee Cullen
Robert Frost
The Great Gatsby
Alice Walker
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
Walt Whitman
Zora Neale Hurston
Karen Hesse
Countee Cullen
35. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
Oscar Wilde
Virginia Woolf
William Butler Yeats
'In Reference to her Children'
36. Wrote Jane Eyre
William Shakespeare
Harper Lee
Charlotte Bronte
'In Reference to her Children'
37. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Ernest Hemingway
Ruth Avi
Walt Whitman
Herman Melville
38. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Jack London
Jerry Spinelli
Amy Tan
CS Lewis
39. Wrote Maniac Magee
Countee Cullen
Jerry Spinelli
David Copperfield
Zora Neale Hurston
40. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
John Keats
Madeline L'Engle
William Shakespeare
Kate Dicamillo
41. A monomaniacal captain tries and fails to kill a monstrous white whale; adventure story - quest tale - allegory; protagonist: Ishmael - Ahab; antogonist: Ahab - great white sperm whale
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Oscar Wilde
Moby Dick
Lois Lowry
42. Wrote Sounder
The Bell Jar
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Alice In Wonderland
William Armstrong
43. 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
Emily Dickinson
Louisa May Alcott
Animal Farm
Robert Frost
44. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe
Amy Tan
William Armstrong
Helen Keller
Beloved
45. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian
Emily Bronte
Amy Tan
Washington Irving
Kate Dicamillo
46. 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
Zora Neale Hurston
David Copperfield
Robinson Crusoe
Little Women
47. 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
Not Without Laughter
Edgar Allan Poe
Holes
Langston Hughes
48. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird; American author
Harper Lee
Edith Wharton
EB White
Caroline Cooney
49. 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
Daniel Defoe
Moby Dick
Lord Byron
Watership Down
50. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia
Lord of the Flies
Edgar Allan Poe
Mary Shelley
Katherine Patterson