Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 14,76 MB
Release : 2009-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1608571815
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?").
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 36,34 MB
Release : 2008-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 1608570045
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language establishes the mood of Gothic Romantic gloom (". . . the opaque puddle of obscurity . . ." "Poverty, treading closely at her heels for a lifetime . . . " ". . . the smile was sunshine under a thundercloud." "The vapor of the broiled fish arose like incense from the shrine of a barbarian." "The shadow creeps and creeps and is always looking over the shoulder of sunshine.").
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 36,58 MB
Release : 2005-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 1608570207
The Minister's Black Veil, Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, Young Goodman Brown, Rappaccini's Daughter, Feathertop: A Moralized Legend.Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for these short stories. All sentences are from the stories. Elements of Romanticism and Gothic imagery dominate figurative language ("the old forest whispering," "as if Nature were laughing," "the Earth, too, had on her black veil") and allusions to folklore and religion (witch's benediction, incantations, book of magic, Fountain of Youth, Sabbath, scriptures, sermon, Eden).
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 29,79 MB
Release : 2007-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 1608570762
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes "harness of routine," "the swamp of awkwardness," "the long valley of her life," "the cobweb of pre-matrimonial acquaintanceship," "feelings had gathered to an avalanche," "Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand").
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 30,94 MB
Release : 2005-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 1608570185
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this satiric novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language shows off Twain's skill at metaphor ("I was mere dirt," a nation of worms," "wide seas of memory," "he was but an extinct volcano"). Allusions include famous literary and historical adventures (Robinson Crusoe, Ivanhoe, Chaucer, Columbus, Northwest Passage).
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 22,73 MB
Release : 2006-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 160857069X
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!").
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 25,4 MB
Release : 2006-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 1608570363
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this classic. All sentences are from the novel. The language is full of fun and familiar characters like the White Rabbit, Mad Hatter and Cheshire Cat. Figurative language includes lots of hyperbole (All persons more than a mile high to leave the court!) and simile combined with rhyme (Up above the world you fly, like a tea tray in the sky). Sophisticated allusions pertain to mathematics, time, law and order and toys and games.
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 21,31 MB
Release : 2003-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 1608570126
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").
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 29,4 MB
Release : 2006-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 1608570347
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes: "evil rolls off Eva's mind like dew off a cabbage leaf - not a drop sinks in" "he's a regular hearse for blackness and sobriety" "to mend the broken threads of life and weave it again into a tissue of brightness." Onomatopoeia includes: plump! kerchunk! kerplash! c'wallop! chunk! bump! bump! bump! creechy crawchy. Allusions include: Shakespeare, Aladdin, Byron, Don Quixote.
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 21,73 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.
