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Grammardog Guide to Up From Slavery

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 23,92 MB

Release : 2007-11

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570053

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this autobiography. All sentences are from the autobiography. Quizzes include famous quotes: "In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress." " . . . a man cannot learn the exercise of self-government by ceasing to vote any more than a boy can learn to swim by keeping out of the water." "I think that the according of the full exercise of political rights is going to be a matter of natural, slow growth, not an overnight gourd-vine affair."



Grammardog Guide to Hamlet

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 37,97 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).



Grammardog Guide to Nature

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 23,49 MB

Release : 2007-07

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570835

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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.



Grammardog Guide to The Prince and the Pauper

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 39,16 MB

Release : 2005-09

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570290

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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 . . ."



Grammardog Guide to The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 46,55 MB

Release : 2006-10

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570231

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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).



Grammardog Guide to the Taming of the Shrew

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 13,24 MB

Release : 2006-05

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570711

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this Shakespearean comedy. All sentences are from the play. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("If I be waspish, best beware my sting." "Where is the life that late I led?" "We will have rings and things and fine array." "There's small choice in rotten apples." "He that runs fastest gets the ring." "Being mad herself, she's madly mated." "First, kiss me Kate."). Onomatopoeia includes: "smack," "slish," "slash."



Grammardog Guide to The Call of the Wild

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 54 pages

File Size : 48,42 MB

Release : 2004-02

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570169

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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.



Grammardog Guide to Walden

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 42,18 MB

Release : 2007-08

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570843

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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."



Grammardog Guide to Jane Eyre

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 27,81 MB

Release : 2003-08

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570460

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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 Romanticism ("her soul sat on her lips," "Till morning dawned I tossed on a buoyant but unquiet sea where billows of trouble rolled under surges of joy."). Allusions include references to history, mythology, religion, literature and folklore (Medusa, Guy Fawkes, Sphynx, Macbeth, Paul and Silas, elves, Ariel, Apollo, Eve, mermaid, Eden).



Grammardog Guide to Heny V

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 12,42 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).