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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. An impoverished young woman (Jane) struggles to maintain her autonomy in the face of oppression - prejudice - and love; Gothic novel - bildungsroman - social portest novel
Harper Lee
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Jane Eyre
2. Wrote The Voice on the Radio
John Keats
Maya Angelou
Helen Keller
Caroline Cooney
3. 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
Animal Farm
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Elizabeth George Speare
4. Wrote Because of Winn - Dixie
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Anna Karenina
Louisa May Alcott
Kate Dicamillo
5. An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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6. Wrote Sonnet 18 - Hamlet - and Macbeth; greatest playwright who ever lived - prolific poet - known for sonnets
William Shakespeare
'In Reference to her Children'
S.E. Hinton
Kate Dicamillo
7. Wrote Watership Down
Toni Morrison
Richard Adams
Beloved
Beowulf
8. Wrote Night
Mildred Taylor
Elie Wiesel
Lord Byron
William Butler Yeats
9. Wrote David Copperfield - Great Expectations; English novelist during Victorian era
HG Wells
Aurora Leigh
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Charles Dickens
10. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
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11. 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
'Civil Disobedience'
Madeline L'Engle
Carl Hiaason
Langston Hughes
12. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer
1984
Robert Frost
Herman Melville
Mary Shelley
13. Wrote The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton
Moby Dick
'In Reference to her Children'
JRR Tolkein
14. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance
Zora Neale Hurston
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
William Shakespeare
William Golding
15. Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men;' British WWI poet - playwright - and literary critic
Willa Cather
Ray Bradbury
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
TS Eliot
16. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher
Willa Cather
Lewis Carroll
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Louis Sacher
17. 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
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Caroline Cooney
Watership Down
Elizabeth George Speare
18. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA
Virginia Woolf
William Shakespeare
Helen Keller
Beloved
19. 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
Jane Austen
Willa Cather
Holes
Not Without Laughter
20. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Paul Curtis
Sonnet 18
21. Wrote The Chocolate War
Robert Cormier
SE Hinton
Mildred Taylor
William Wordsworth
22. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars
Lois Lowry
George Orwell
Ray Bradbury
Kate Chopin
23. Wrote Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Mansfield Park - et al.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Jane Austen
Jane Eyre
Katherine Patterson
24. '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
Sonnet 18
Harper Lee
Elie Wiesel
Toni Morrison
25. Wrote Maniac Magee
Kate Chopin
Jerry Spinelli
JD Salinger
Karen Hesse
26. Wrote The Aeneid
Virgil
The Outsiders
Louis Sacher
Stephen Crane
27. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Mark Twain
Zora Neale Hurston
Aurora Leigh
Leo Tolstoy
28. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Kate Chopin
Emily Dickinson
Charles Dickens
Ruth Avi
29. Wrote Jane Eyre
Patricia Maclachlan
Jean Craighead George
Langston Hughes
Charlotte Bronte
30. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
Walter Dean Myers
Little Women
The Bell Jar
31. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye
JD Salinger
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Sylvia Plath
Helen Keller
32. Wrote Walk Two Moons
Elizabeth George Speare
Farenheit 451
Sharon Creech
Ruth Avi
33. Wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
Amy Tan
Patricia Maclachlan
Washington Irving
Sharon Creech
34. 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
Stephen Crane
James Joyce
George Orwell
35. Wrote The Outsiders
Frederick Douglass
Sharon Creech
SE Hinton
Jean Craighead George
36. Wrote Out of the Dust
Madeline L'Engle
Kate Chopin
Robert Cormier
Karen Hesse
37. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Robert Frost
Oscar Wilde
Amy Tan
38. Wrote The Hobbit
S.E. Hinton
JRR Tolkein
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Elie Wiesel
39. Wrote Crispin - Nothing But The Truth
Avi
Jane Austen
Richard Adams
Jerry Spinelli
40. Wrote The Pigman
Christopher Paul Curtis
Paul Zindel
Nancy Farmer
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
41. Wrote Touching Spirit Bear
Robert Cormier
Charlotte Bronte
Christopher Marlowe
Ben Mikaelson
42. 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
Ester Forbes
Walt Whitman
Sharon Creech
Their Eyes Were Watching God
43. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author
Moby Dick
Maya Angelou
William Butler Yeats
James Joyce
44. Wrote Alice In Wonderland
Ernest Hemingway
Charles Dickens
Lewis Carroll
Jean Craighead George
45. Wrote 'Aurora Leigh -' poet of the Victorian era
The Bell Jar
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Walter Dean Myers
Ben Mikaelson
46. 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
Jane Austen
Walt Whitman
Carl Hiaason
The Pigman
47. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird; American author
Harper Lee
The Outsiders
Henry David Thoreau
Ruth Avi
48. 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
The Joy Luck Club
JD Salinger
Kate Chopin
Frankenstein
49. Wrote Roll of Thunder
Kate Chopin
The Giver
EB White
Mildred Taylor
50. Wrote The Lion - the Witch - and the Wardrobe
CS Lewis
Holes
Not Without Laughter
JRR Tolkein