Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 18,10 MB
Release : 2003-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 1608570312
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."
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 40,56 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 1608570886
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes: ". . . the wide bleak moor was a wide expanse of black ocean . . ." ". . . the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain . . ." "The bulbs in the secret garden must have been much astonished." Sensory imagery includes: "Her hair was yellow and her face was yellow." "She . . . rubbed the end of her nose with the back of her hand . . ." "soft rustling flight of wings," "the fresh scent of the damp earth," "Mary drank some tea and ate a little toast and some marmalade."
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 22,2 MB
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1608571807
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."
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 48,54 MB
Release : 2006-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 1608570606
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this hilarious Shakespearean farce. All sentences are from the play. Wordplay, puns and jokes are plentiful ("Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine." "Thou drone, thou snail, thou slug, thou sot."). Allusions in this comedy are as mixed up as the plot about two sets of twins separated at birth (the fates, Circe, sorcerers, Father Time, fairy land, goblins, witches, mermaids, Adam, Noah and the prodigal son).
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 18,39 MB
Release : 2004-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 1608570169
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this adventure story. All sentences are from the novel. The main character is a dog which makes for interesting sentences that describe human behavior and the snowy Yukon wilderness from a dog's point of view. Allusions reflect the conflict in the story between civilized dog versus uncivilized dog and laws of civilization versus primordial instinct and lawlessness.
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 13,25 MB
Release : 2005-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 1608570290
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes: "the forest of legs," "Hunger is pride's master," "busy as ants," "He felt much as a man might who had danced blithely out to enjoy a rainbow and got struck by lightning." Alliteration includes: "The high hedge hid him," "He bathed his bleeding feet in the brook," "After hours of persistent pursuit and persecution, the little prince was at last deserted . . ."
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 29,81 MB
Release : 2008-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 160857007X
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this short story. All sentences are from the story. Figurative language includes: "life was at best an uncertain game," "the accordion rose and fell in fitful spasms and long-drawn gasps." Sensory imagery includes: "dry, cold, bracing air," "a giggle," "a kiss," "freckled face," "stroked his mustaches," "blue eyes," "whiskey," "the reedy notes of the accordion," "long embrace," "voices," "footsteps."
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 39,59 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 : 37,49 MB
Release : 2006-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 1608570096
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."
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 39,21 MB
Release : 2009-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1608571823
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes: "She herself had seen nothing, not the shadow of a shadow" "the inner chamber of my dread" "the grey dawn admonished us to separate" "We lived in a cloud of music and affection and success and private theatricals" "The place, with its grey sky and withered garlands, its bared spaces and scattered dead leaves, was like a theater after the performance - all strewn with crumpled playbills."
