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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry
William Golding
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
William Armstrong
Mildred Taylor
2. Wrote 'Prometheus Unbound -' 'Ode to the West Wind -' and 'To A Skylark'
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Aurora Leigh
Robert Frost
Percy Bysshe Shelley
3. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet
Mildred Taylor
William Butler Yeats
Countee Cullen
David Copperfield
4. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality
To Kill a Mockingbird
William Butler Yeats
Stephen Crane
Herman Melville
5. Wrote Out of the Dust
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Christopher Paul Curtis
Caroline Cooney
Karen Hesse
6. 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
Lewis Carroll
Beowulf
Jane Austen
Alice In Wonderland
7. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe
William Golding
Crime and Punishment
CS Lewis
Beloved
8. 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
Nancy Farmer
'In Reference to her Children'
Frankenstein
Amy Tan
9. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988
Anna Karenina
Lewis Carroll
William Shakespeare
Toni Morrison
10. Wrote Little Women; American novelist
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Edgar Allan Poe
Charlotte Bronte
Louisa May Alcott
11. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
Patricia Maclachlan
Robinson Crusoe
Lord of the Flies
JD Salinger
12. 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
The Joy Luck Club
JRR Tolkein
Langston Hughes
Little Women
13. Wrote Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
Gary Paulson
14. 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
Christopher Paul Curtis
Countee Cullen
Wendy Towle
The Giver
15. Wrote The Chocolate War
Robert Cormier
Little Women
Wendy Towle
HG Wells
16. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
Avi
Elizabeth George Speare
Jean Craighead George
Elie Wiesel
17. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
Mary Shelley
The Giver
Walt Whitman
Countee Cullen
18. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
S.E. Hinton
Herman Melville
Geoffrey Chaucer
CS Lewis
19. Wrote Hatchet
Virginia Woolf
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Mildred Taylor
Gary Paulson
20. 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
Mary Shelley
Macbeth
Crime and Punishment
Percy Bysshe Shelley
21. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
Daniel Defoe
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Jean Craighead George
John Keats
22. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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23. Wrote Fahrenheit 451 - Dandelion Wine
Sandra Cisneros
Anne Frank
Ray Bradbury
Anna Karenina
24. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Amy Tan
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Robert Cormier
The Picture of Dorian Gray
25. Wrote The Aeneid
Madeline L'Engle
Virgil
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Karen Hesse
26. Wrote The Awakening - The Storm; feminist author of the 20th century; born in St. Louis - Missouri
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mildred Taylor
Paul Zindel
Kate Chopin
27. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Toni Morrison
1984
Leo Tolstoy
28. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America
Anne Bradstreet
Harper Lee
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Frederick Douglass
29. Wrote Sonnet 18 - Hamlet - and Macbeth; greatest playwright who ever lived - prolific poet - known for sonnets
Aphra Behn
Edith Wharton
William Shakespeare
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
30. 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
Nancy Farmer
William Wordsworth
The Great Gatsby
Stephen Crane
31. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers
Patricia Maclachlan
The Call of the Wild
Aphra Behn
Walter Dean Myers
32. Wrote The Hobbit
Virginia Woolf
Moby Dick
JRR Tolkein
Macbeth
33. 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
Lord of the Flies
Holes
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Their Eyes Were Watching God
34. '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
Walt Whitman
Langston Hughes
Sharon Creech
Sonnet 18
35. Wrote The Pigman
Moby Dick
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Paul Zindel
Patricia Maclachlan
36. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
Ernest Hemingway
Mildred Taylor
Zora Neale Hurston
Mary Shelley
37. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression
Sylvia Plath
Moby Dick
Geoffrey Chaucer
Paul Zindel
38. 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'
Willa Cather
Ernest Hemingway
1984
Henry David Thoreau
39. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War
The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
Charles Dickens
The Giver
40. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
Gary Paulson
Zora Neale Hurston
Helen Keller
George Orwell
41. Wrote Johnny Tremain
Ester Forbes
'In Reference to her Children'
Maya Angelou
Charlotte Bronte
42. Wrote The Fall of the House of Usher - The Murders in the Rue Morgue - and The Raven; wrote poems: 'To Science -' 'The City and the Sea -' and 'Silence;' American writer - poet - editor and literary critic; part of American Romantic Movement
Edgar Allan Poe
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Outsiders
Virginia Woolf
43. Wrote Maniac Magee
Richard Adams
Nancy Farmer
Jerry Spinelli
William Wordsworth
44. Wrote Roll of Thunder
Mildred Taylor
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Maya Angelou
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
45. Wrote Sounder
Ruth Avi
Langston Hughes
William Armstrong
HG Wells
46. Wrote Lord of the Flies - To the Ends of the Earth; British novelist - poet
William Shakespeare
Kate Chopin
Harper Lee
William Golding
47. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Helen Keller
Nancy Farmer
Lord of the Flies
Daniel Defoe
48. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Christopher Marlowe
Louis Sacher
Nancy Farmer
Sharon Creech
49. 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
Langston Hughes
Louisa May Alcott
JD Salinger
Stephen Crane
50. After having an affair with a handsome military man - a woman kills herself; russion - 1970s - psychological novel
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Jane Austen
Anna Karenina