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Grammardog Guide to Much Ado About Nothing

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 24,64 MB

Release : 2006-08

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570673

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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 The Rocking-Horse Winner

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 39,94 MB

Release : 2008-12

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570029

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this short story. All sentences are from the story. Figurative language includes: "She married for love, and the love turned to dust." "She felt the center of her heart go hard." "Bassett was serious as a church" "The house whispers." Alliteration includes: "His mother had sudden strange seizures." "There must be more money!" "Then suddenly she switched on the light and saw her son."



Grammardog Guide to Hard Times

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 34 pages

File Size : 31,16 MB

Release : 2006-03

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570436

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes "the midnight of his mind," "grinding at the mill of knowledge," and "like a sad sea." Allusions pertain to mythology (Centaur, Cupid, Venus, Furies), religion (Adam, Good Samaritan, serpent in the garden, Judas Iscariot), folklore (fairies, genies, dragon) and literature (Shakespeare, Goldsmith, Robinson Crusoe, "Alas poor Yorick!").



Grammardog Guide to The Picture of Dorian Gray

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 31,74 MB

Release : 2006-12

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570096

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes: "She is a peacock in everything but beauty." "He becomes an echo of someone else's music." "Time is jealous of you." "like a third-rate wedding cake." Allusions to mythology, religion and literature include: Juliet, Tartuffe, Caliban, Dante, Adonis, Artemis, Athena, Sphinxes, Narcissus, Eve, Roman Catholic, "Lead us not into temptation," "seven deadly sins."



Grammardog Guide to Bartleby the Scrivener

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 40,30 MB

Release : 2003-08

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570134

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this story set in the early days of Wall Street. All sentences are from the short story. Figurative language describes Bartleby as "a bit of wreckage in the mid-Atlantic" and "a millstone" to his boss. Allusions mention tycoon John Jacob Astor and geographical locations such as Broadway, Jersey City and Hoboken.



Grammardog Guide to The Turn of the Screw

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 56 pages

File Size : 45,76 MB

Release : 2009-02-15

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1608571858

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this short story. All sentences are from the story. Figurative language includes: "long slumbering hospitality seemed to be easily awakened," "the sharp dry twigs caught and held her and scratched her like talons," "The old pine must have loved his new dependent." "the great world for the first time puts out a hand to her," "the murmur of the pine's green branches is in her ears," "there was the huge tree asleep yet in the paling moonlight."



Grammardog Guide to Self-Reliance

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 57 pages

File Size : 17,92 MB

Release : 2007-06

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570827

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this essay. All sentences are from the essay. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("To be great is to be misunderstood." "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist." "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself." "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds . . ." "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; imitation is suicide." "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.").



Grammardog Guide to Heart of Darkness

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 38,14 MB

Release : 2003-08

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570444

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this classic novella. All sentences are from the novella. Figurative language contrasts civilization with the power of prehistoric nature ("the forest stepped leisurely across the water," "the woods looked with their air of hidden knowledge"). Allusions recall civilizing forces in history (Sir Francis Drake, Romans, Knights, Buddha).



Grammardog Guide to O. Henry Short Stories

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 24,68 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 Through the Looking-Glass

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 56 pages

File Size : 50,52 MB

Release : 2009-02

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1608571815

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Quizzes include famous quotes ("Beware the Jabberwock, my son!" "The time has come," the Walrus said, "to talk of many things . . . of cabbages and kings." "'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe." "Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." "Life, what is it but a dream?").