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Grammardog Guide to Rip Van Winkle

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 28,56 MB

Release : 2007-06

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570789

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this short story. All sentences are from the story. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use." "But what courage can withstand the ever-during and all-besetting terrors of a woman's tongue?") Figurative language includes: "like a colt at his mother's heels," "the yoke of matrimony," "the muttering of one of those transient thunder showers."



Grammardog Guide to Richard III

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 50,29 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 Benito Cereno

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 38,58 MB

Release : 2003-08

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570142

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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").



Grammardog Guide to Heny V

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 45,25 MB

Release : 2006-05

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570746

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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. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more." "The game's afoot." "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers . . ." ". . . giddy Fortune's furious fickle wheel . . ." "O for a Muse of fire . . ."). Allusions include famous fictional and historical generals (Arthur, Agamemnon, Caesar, Pompey, Alexander).



Grammardog Guide to The Awakening

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 10,91 MB

Release : 2003-08

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570126

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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

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 31,33 MB

Release : 2003-08

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570266

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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 Oliver Twist

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 26,40 MB

Release : 2006-07

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570509

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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 Poe Short Stories

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 37,76 MB

Release : 2005-05

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570282

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The Fall of the House of Usher, The Masque of the Red Death, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado. Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for these short stories. All sentences are from the stories. Figurative language includes: "eye-like windows," "buzz," "hum," "hissed," "he, he, he," "like a thief in the night." Sensory imagery includes: "I placed my hand upon his shoulder." "The windows were long, narrow and pointed." "a light step on an adjoining staircase," "the odors of all flowers," "the voice of the clock," "very smooth, slimy and cold," "a low moaning cry," "a succession of loud and shrill screams."



Grammardog Guide to The Scarlet Letter

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 26,53 MB

Release : 2003-08

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570312

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this classic American novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language exemplifies Romanticism (leaves "whisper," pine trees "moan," ". . . the sunshine does not love you."). Allusions characteristic of Romanticism include "magic circle," "magician's wand," "elfish spirit," "nymph-child," "fairies," "witches," "Eden" and "Pentecost."



Grammardog Guide to The Innocents Abroad

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 24,17 MB

Release : 2006-10

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570223

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this humorous travel book. All sentences are from the book. Figurative language describes the tourist experience ("great guns frown out upon sea and town," "a snowstorm of waving handkerchiefs," "The street called Straight is straighter than a corkscrew, but not as straight as a rainbow."). Allusions include mythology, religion, literature, history and folklore (Columbus, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Romulus, Aladdin, Shylock, Othello, Agamemnon, St. Mark, Eve, Garden of Eden).