Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 48,46 MB
Release : 2008-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 1608570398
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this classic novel. All sentences are from the novel. The coming of age story is rich in sensory imagery ("wind howling," "broiled mutton and beer," "a clammy hand," "fragrance of lemon peel and sugar," "eager black eyes"). Allusions pertain to religion, literature and Greek mythology (Lazarus, Noah, Job, Cain, Samson, Hamlet, Macbeth, Robinson Crusoe, Titans, Bacchanalia, Phoebus).
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 27,24 MB
Release : 2003-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 1608570428
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this classic novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language is abundant ("a haystack of buttered toast," "the closet whispered, the fireplace sighed," "a post office of a mouth," "so very blank and high was the dead wall of her face"). Allusions are drawn from mythology (Hercules, myrmidons, Telemachus, Cupid, Argus), religion (Noah's ark, Cain, Lord's Prayer) and literature (Hamlet, Coriolanus, Richard III, Anthony's oration in Julius Caesar, Timon of Athens).
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 26,60 MB
Release : 2006-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 1608570673
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. . .'").
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 38,43 MB
Release : 2008-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 1608570002
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this psychological novella. All sentences are from the novella. Figurative language echoes the theme of American versus European standards of social behavior ("that mysterious land of dollars" versus "fine spun gallantry"). The friction between cultures and social classes is developed through religious allusions and references to illness and disease (Calvinism, Christian martyrs, malaria, dyspepsia, headache).
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 40,97 MB
Release : 2006-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 1608570479
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").
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 17,89 MB
Release : 2008-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 1608570894
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language describes a harsh winter in Massachusetts ("the storms of February had pitched their white tents about the devoted village," "Far off above us a square of light trembled through the screen of snow"). Allusions to constellations express the theme of hopes and dreams of life beyond the remote village (Orion, Pleiades, the Dipper, Sirius).
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 33,32 MB
Release : 2003-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 1608570584
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language and allusions are characteristic of Romanticism: "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same, and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning or frost from fire." "It had got dusk, and the moon looked over the high wall of the court." "He's a bird of bad omen." Allusions: ghost, witches, imps, fairies, vampires, goblin.
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 48,70 MB
Release : 2007-09-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 1608570819
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this satiric novel. All sentences are from the novel. Sentences satirize government, laws and moral virtues (Reward and punishment are "the two hinges upon which all government turns." "Ingratitude is among them a capital crime." "It is the maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again." "The question to be debated was whether the yahoos should be exterminated from the face of the earth.").
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 20,97 MB
Release : 2005-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 1608570622
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").
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 38,15 MB
Release : 2003-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 1608570142
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this mystery thriller at sea. All sentences are from the short story. Figurative language creates a dark tone, suspicion and suspense (The ship was a "slumbering volcano." The slaves sat "sphinx-like" while chanting low like "bag-pipers playing a funeral march."). Allusions support the theme of mystery and secrecy ("Gordian knots," "Guy-Fawkes," "freemason" "and dark satyr in a mask").
