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Grammardog Guide to Hamlet

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 29,34 MB

Release : 2005-04

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570614

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this Shakespearean tragedy. All sentences are from the play. Figurative language includes "the primrose path of dalliance," "Purpose is but the slave of memory," and "when sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions." Literary analysis passages feature Hamlet's "to be or not to be" soliloquy. Allusions include mythology (Olympus, Jove, Cyclops, Hercules), folklore (witchcraft, mermaid, fairy) and religion (Cain, Adam, Saint Patrick).



Grammardog Guide to Conrad Short Stories

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 41,32 MB

Release : 2005-10

Category : Education

ISBN : 160857038X

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The Lagoon, Youth, Amy Foster, The Secret Sharer, An Outpost of Progress.Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for these short stories. All sentences are from the stories. In tales set in Asia, Africa, and Great Britain, Conrad excels at poetic devices including alliteration ("sleep on the soft sand in the shade"), assonance ("breeder of sheep and deals"), consonance ("green satin ribbon"), repetition ("had been in trouble, or was in trouble, or expected to be in trouble") and rhyme ("a bright light traveling in the night"). Allusions mix superstition with religion and Greek mythology (magicians, witchcraft, Allah, Lord's Prayer, Erebus and Nemesis).



Grammardog Guide to Treasure Island

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 23,2 MB

Release : 2004-09

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570576

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Sensory imagery includes: "a strong smell of tobacco and tar" "a jingle of broken glass" "the windows had neat red curtains" "the swish of the sea" "we had eaten our pork" "wiping the sweat from his brow." Alliteration includes: "The supervisor stood up straight and stiff and told his story" "daylight dwindled and disappeared" "He was the flower of the flock, was Flint." Allusions include: Noah, Davy Jones, Jolly Roger.



Grammardog Guide to Richard III

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 29,74 MB

Release : 2006-04

Category : Education

ISBN : 160857069X

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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 ("Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York." "Conscience is but a word that cowards use devised at first to keep the strong in awe." "Was ever woman in this humour woo'd?" "An honest tale speeds best being plainly told." "Why grow the branches when the root is gone?" "I had a Harry, till a Richard killed him." "Who builds his hope in air of your good looks lives like a drunken sailor on a mast." "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!").



Grammardog Guide to London Short Stories

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 54 pages

File Size : 37,43 MB

Release : 2006-09

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570258

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All Gold Canyon, The Mexican, The Story of Jees Uck, The White Silence, To Build a Fire.Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for these short stories. All sentences are from the stories. London's literary style and themes are examples of Naturalism. Figurative language includes: "the trembling lips of nature," "The White Silence seemed to sneer," "the stars that leaped and danced," "light laughed and life invited," "the leaves, wise with experience," "the stream once more drowsed and whispered," "for generations destiny had had this one end in view."



Grammardog Guide to Twain Short Stories

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 43,77 MB

Release : 2005-10

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570339

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The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, Luck, Is He Living Or Is He Dead?, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, The Mysterious Stranger. Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for these short stories. All sentences are from the stories. Figurative language includes: "the next minute you'd see that frog whirling in the air like a doughnut" "he traveled like a duke" "a tornado of applause" "as solid as a gob of mud" "from the top of the precipice frowned a vast castle" "man is a museum of diseases" "I have examined his billion of possible careers." Allusions include: Frankenstein, Caesar, Napoleon, Socrates, Daniel Webster, Andrew Jackson.



Grammardog Guide to The Sea Wolf

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 56 pages

File Size : 23,28 MB

Release : 2009-01-15

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1608571807

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes: "A steamboat emerged trailing fog wreaths on either side like seaweed on the snout of Leviathan." "He accepted destiny, marched hand in hand with it." "Life . . . was a cipher in the arithmetic of commerce." Sensory imagery includes: "the mournful tolling of a bell," "sour-smelling garments," "two rows of tobacco-discolored teeth," "fresh-baked bread," "her hair was brushing my face."



Grammardog Guide to Chopin Short Stories

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 35,52 MB

Release : 2006

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570177

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At Cheniere Caminada, Athenaise, Desiree's Baby, The Story of an Hour, Wiser Than a God.Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this short story collection. All sentences are from the stories. Language describes the culture and setting of the Louisiana Gulf Coast in the late 1800s where women characters begin to question traditional roles (Is "marriage a trap" or can it be "what story books promise?"). Figurative language reflects the conflict between religion, the expectations of the Southern culture and personal choice (Faust, Eve, Holy Ghost, Satan, Judgment Day, Terpsichore and goddess of Victory).



Grammardog Guide to O. Henry Short Stories

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 36,83 MB

Release : 2005-05

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570274

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The Gift of the Magi, The Skylight Room, The Cop and the Anthem, The Ransom of Red Chief, Hearts and Hands.Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for these short stories. All sentences are from the stories. Figurative language includes: "sea of asphalt," "shook him until his freckles rattled," "skyrocket of a kid," "butterfly days," "like a welter-weight cinnamon bear." Alliteration includes: "Mr. Hoover who was forty-five, fat, flush and foolish," "life is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles, and sniffles predominating."



Grammardog Guide to Henry IV, Part I

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 26,67 MB

Release : 2007-09

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570797

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this Shakespearean play classified as a history. All sentences are from the play. Figurative language is as colorful as the character Falstaff ("as hot as molten lead," "It rained down fortune," "pluck drowned honor by the locks"). Allusions include mythology, religion and folklore (Phoebus, Diana, Hercules, Mars, Saint Nicholas, Adam, Merlin, Maid Marian, fairy, griffin, dragon).