Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 49,10 MB
Release : 2006-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 1608570231
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this famous short story. All sentences are from the story. Alliteration includes ("Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow," "women's hearts were wooed and won," "ready for either a fight or a frolic," "suitable for such a steed"). Allusions include references to mythology, religion, chivalry and folklore (Sabbath, psalm, ghosts, goblins, omens, magic, castle keep, knight-errant, Hercules, Achilles, Mercury).
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 33,31 MB
Release : 2007-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 1608570843
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this essay. All sentences are from the essay. Quizzes feature famous quotes: "Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in." "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." "When a man dies he kicks the dust." "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer." "I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life." "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately." "In the long run men hit only what they aim at." "Simplify, simplify." "It is never too late to give up prejudices." "Our life is frittered away by detail."
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 18,50 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 1608570118
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this dystopic tale. All sentences are from the novel. Quizzes use short sentences characteristic of the futuristic genre. Figurative language contrasts nature with the sterile world of dystopia ("blue as morning," "puddle of light," "the trees have swallowed the ruins"). Allusions reflect the conflict between government and technology and mythology and archetypal symbols that stir the emotions.
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 44,95 MB
Release : 2005-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 1608570614
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).
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 47,38 MB
Release : 2007-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 1608570800
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language features outstanding examples of personification ("his eyes playing hide and seek with mine," "fear had me by the throat," "sleep at length stole from me the consciousness of sorrow"). Onomatopoeia includes "tee-hee" and "ahem." Allusions focus on history, folklore and religion (Rob Roy, Charlemagne, Charles the Second, Protestant, Solomon, Catholics, warlock, witches, fairies).
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 17,79 MB
Release : 2008-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 1608570088
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this epic poem. All sentences are from the poem. Elements of Romanticism include the personification of nature ("sea fogs pitched their tents," "the great sun looked with an eye of love," "the restless heart of the ocean," "the whispering rain") and allusions to religion, folklore superstitions and mythology (Mary, Jacob Abraham, Elijah, Eden, four leaved clover, horseshoes, mystic mistletoe, Titan, Olympus, Dryad).
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 26,22 MB
Release : 2005-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 1608570681
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this Shakespearean tragedy. All sentences are from the play. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("O, beware my lord of jealousy. It is the green-ey'd monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on." "Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit and lost without deserving." "How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?" "But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at." "I kissed thee ere I killed thee." "Then must you speak of one that loved not wisely but too well." "She was false as water." "Give me ocular proof." "And when I love thee not, chaos is come again." "We cannot all be masters.").
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 16,94 MB
Release : 2007-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 1608570835
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this essay. All sentences are from the essay. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("We aim above the mark to hit the mark." "Nature cannot be surprised in undress." "Great causes are never tried on their merits." "How inconceivably remote is man." "I can no longer live without elegance." Allusions are drawn from history, religion and mythology: Versailles, Gabriel, Luther, Eden, angels of darkness, Apollo, Diana, Pan, Proteus, Oedipus.
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 37,61 MB
Release : 2005-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 1608570649
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this Shakespearean tragedy. All sentences are from the play. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("Fair is foul and foul is fair." "Double, double toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble." "Something wicked this way comes." "But screw your courage to the sticking place and we'll not fail." "Is this a dagger I see before me?" "False face must hide what the false heart doth know." "Out, damned spot." "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.").
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 48,40 MB
Release : 2007-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 1608570754
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this memoir. All sentences are from the book. Figurative language includes: "slavery would not always hold me within its foul embrace," "the bitterest dregs of slavery," "the tomb of slavery," "the arms of slavery." Allusions are drawn from history, religion and literature: Napoleon, Patrick Henry, Spartans, Job, Ham, Methodist, Whittier, "Lady of the Lake."
