Grammardog Guide to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland


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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this classic. All sentences are from the novel. The language is full of fun and familiar characters like the White Rabbit, Mad Hatter and Cheshire Cat. Figurative language includes lots of hyperbole (All persons more than a mile high to leave the court!) and simile combined with rhyme (Up above the world you fly, like a tea tray in the sky). Sophisticated allusions pertain to mathematics, time, law and order and toys and games.




Grammardog Guide to Much Ado About Nothing


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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this Shakespearean comedy. All sentences are from the play. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("What, my dear Lady Disdain! Are you yet living?" "For man is a giddy thing." "I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me." "When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married." "There was a star danced and under that was I born." "What's the matter that you have such a February face. . .'").




Grammardog Guide to Civil Disobedience


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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this influential essay. All sentences are from the essay. Familiar quotes include, "That government is best which governs least." Figurative language compares voting to a game of checkers and government to a machine. Allusions cover mythology, religion and history (Orpheus, Christ, Luther, Caesar, Copernicus, Washington, Franklin).




Grammardog Guide to White Fang


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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language and allusions are characteristic of Naturalism: "On the sled in a box lay a third man whose toil was over -- a man whom the Wild had conquered and beaten down until he would never move nor struggle again." "So there was no damming up the tide of life that was rising within him." "The night yawned about him." "some strange freak of Chance," "ruled over by Chance, merciless, planless, endless," "Fortune seemed to favor him."




Grammardog Guide to Oliver Twist


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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes: "The smallest of all possible kettles was singing a small song." "I have made a coffin of my heart and sealed it up." "There is no chord in your heart that I can touch." "Providence must sleep." Sensory imagery includes: "the key grated in the lock," "garden flowers perfumed the air," "his eyes were bloodshot," "a slice of bread and butter," "a passionate kiss upon her chaste nose."




Grammardog Guide to The Awakening


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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this landmark feminist classic. All sentences are from the novel. Quizzes use language that describes the romantic settings of the Louisiana Gulf coast and New Orleans. Naturalism is reflected in figurative language and lush descriptions of "hot breath of the Southern night," "the voice of the sea is seductive," and "the touch of the sea is sensuous." Allusions blend Creole folklore, classical myths, Catholicism and classical music. Feminism is poetically expressed ("The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings").




Grammardog Guide to Moby Dick


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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes: "a whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard," "silent islands of men and women," "The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jeweled velvets," "He lived in the world as the last of the Grisly Bears lived in settled Missouri," "the chick that's in him pecks the shell," "in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti."




Grammardog Guide to Lord Jim


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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language features onomatopoeia ("tap tap," "crunch crunch," "swish swish," "bang," "thump"), and language characteristic of Naturalism ("There was not the thickness of a sheet of paper between the right and wrong of this affair." "The chilly Antarctic can keep a secret." ". . . sniffing the intoxicating breath of that wasted opportunity").




Grammardog Guide to King Lear


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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this Shakespearean tragedy. All sentences are from the play. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("nothing will come of nothing," "This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen," "Blow winds, and crack your cheeks," "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child," "I am a man more sinned against than sinning," "Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say," "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools," "The art of our necessities is strange and can make vile things precious").




Grammardog Guide to Julius Caesar


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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this Shakespearean tragedy. All sentences are from the play. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("Beware the Ides of March," "Et tu, Brute?" "Friends, Romans, countrymen lend me your ears," "let slip the dogs of war," "I am constant as the northern star," "It was Greek to me," "Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look," "If you have tears, prepare to shed them now," "This was the most unkindest cut of all," "the fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves that we are underlings").