Praxis II: Middle School English Language Arts (5047) – Flashcards
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Louisa May Alcott
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American novelist whose major works (1860) include: "Little Women," "Little Men," "Flower Fables," "Moods." Used pen name A. M. Barnard
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Maya Angelou
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" I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," "Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now" (1993) and "Even the Stars Look Lonesome (1997)"
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Ray Bradbury
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20th century autodidact writer famous for " Fahrenheit 451," "The Martian Chronicles," (Sci Fi/Horror), " The Illustrated Man,"
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Sandra Cisneros
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American writer best known for "The House on Mango Street," "Have You Seen Marie?"
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Stephen Crane
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American realist author. Early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism...best known works , "Red Badge of Courage," "The Open Boat," "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets," "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky."
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Daniel Defoe
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English trader/writer. "Robinson Crusoe,"
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Emily Dickinson
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American poet, known for slant rhyme, poems focused manly on death and immortality. Many of her poems were heavily edited and were featured in "The Repubican."
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Frederick Douglass
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African-American antislavery orator
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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American essayist/poet known for "Nature," "Self Reliance.." Lead the Transcendentalist movement in the mid 19th Century. Focused on individuality and freedom.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"The Great Gatsby," "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "This Side of Paradise," The Beautiful and Damned." Famous American writer
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Anne Frank
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"Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl" retells the story of Frank and her family in hiding or 2 years during the Nazi invasion in the Netherlands.
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Mary Shelley
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"Frankenstein"/ English writer
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Robert Frost
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American Poet, "The Road Not Taken," "Birches," "Mending wall."
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S. E. Hinton
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American writer most widely known for writing young adult books, "The Outsiders," "That Was Then, This is Now."
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Zora Neale Hurston
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American folklorist, anthropologist, and author best known for "Their Eyes Were Watching God."
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John Keats
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English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. "Ode to a Nightingale"
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Hellen Keller
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American deafblind author ,"The Story of My Life"
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Harper Lee
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American novelist widely known for writing "To Kill a Mockingbird."
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Madeleine L'Engle
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American writer best known for young-adult fiction "A Wrinkle in Time" and its sequels: "A Wind in the Door," "A Swiftly Tilting Planet," "Many Waters," and "An Acceptable Time." Showcased her passion for modern science.
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C.S. Lewis
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Novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, and Christian apologist. Best known for "The Chronicles of Narnia," "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe." "The Great Divorce."
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Jack London
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American Author and activist. Major works include: "The Call of the Wild," "White Fang," "The Iron Heel" (Dystopian novel)
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Lois Lowry
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Famous American children's book writer. "Number the Stars," "The Giver," "Gossamer."
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Herman Melville
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American novelist.Major works "Moby Dick," "Bartelby, the Scrivener."
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George Orwell
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(Eric Arthur Blair) English novelist. "Nineteen- Eighty Four," "Animal Farm."
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Edgar Allan Poe
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American Author, poet- part of the American Romantic Movement. "The Raven," "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Purloined Letter," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Pit and the Pendulum"
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J.D. Salinger
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American writer. "Catcher and the Rye"
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William Shakespeare
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English poet, actor, writer. "Romeo and Juliet," "Macbeth," "The Tempest," "A Mid Summer Nights Dream," "King Lear," "Othello"
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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One of the major English Romantic poets, finest lyric poets. "The Necessity of Atheism," "A Defense of Poetry."
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Gary Soto
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American author and poet, Chicano, "Baseball in April," "Too many Tamales," "A Fire in my Hands."
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Amy Tan
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American writer who focuses on mother-daughter relationships, most famously "The Joy Luck Club"
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J.R.R. Tolkien
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English writer most known for writing "The Hobbit," "The Lord of the Rings," and "The Silmarillion."
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Mark Twain
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American Author and humorist. "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."
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Alice Walker
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American author and humorist. "The Color Purple"
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H.G. Wells
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English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, and social commentary, and even textbooks and rules for war games. "The Time Machine," "The War of the Worlds," "The Island of Doctor Moreau."
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Walt Whitman
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American poet & essayist. "Leaves of Grass," "Memoranda during the War."
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Harlem Renaissance
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1920's- Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen
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British Romantics
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John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron
