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Grammardog Guide to The Picture of Dorian Gray

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 39,83 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 The Scarlet Letter

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 14,65 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 Rocking-Horse Winner

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 37,76 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 Bartleby the Scrivener

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 20,12 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 Jude the Obscure

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 23,77 MB

Release : 2008-04

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570037

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language is characteristic of Naturalism ("the oars smacking with a loud kiss on the face of the stream," "Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?"). Allusions include references to mythology, religion, literature, Naturalism and fatalism, and folklore and superstition (Iliad, Venus Apollo, Robinson Crusoe, Voltaire, fate, Eve, Nemesis, fairy, sprite, Apostle's Creed).



Grammardog Guide to The Awakening

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 28,32 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 Through the Looking-Glass

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 56 pages

File Size : 19,75 MB

Release : 2009-01-15

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 160857184X

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this short story. All sentences are from the story. Figurative language includes: "Death is a dignitary," "the brooding mists," "like the voice of Niagara," "the cannon had taken a hand in the game." Alliteration includes: "By nightfall he was fatigued, footsore, famishing." "The sounds increased in strength and sharpness."



Grammardog Guide to Life on the Mississippi

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 33,53 MB

Release : 2006-11

Category : Education

ISBN : 160857024X

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this travel book. All sentences are from the book. Figurative language describes the voyage up the Mississippi ("gray beards of Spanish moss," "water's mulatto complexion," "the desert of water," "dense forest that guards the two banks," "angry ridge of water," "a boat hates shoal water"). Allusions include many references to literature (Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Dante, Don Quixote, Frankenstein, Richard III, Othello).



Grammardog Guide to Emma

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 38,80 MB

Release : 2007-11

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570851

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes metaphors about class, manners and courtship ("a cloak of politeness," "broad wreath of gallantry," "Young ladies are delicate plants"). Sentences dispense advice on marriage ("A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked," "One cannot love a reserved person," "You must be the best judge of your own happiness").



Grammardog Guide to Hamlet

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 14,47 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).