Grammardog Guide to As You Like It


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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this Shakespearean comedy. All sentences are from the play. Some sentences are familiar quotes ("All the world's a stage" and "motley fool"). Figurative language centers on love, marriage and courtship. Advice to lovers abounds ("A man falls in love in April and weds in December"). Allusions are as mixed-up as the plot ("Robin Hood, Cleopatra, Judas, Pythagoras, Diana and Hercules").




Grammardog Guide to Little Women


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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes: "Fortune suddenly smiled on Jo," "Jo rashly took a plunge into the frothy sea of sensational literature," "like a fly in the web of a very strict spider." Allusions include references to mythology, religion, literature and folklore (Orpheus, Hercules, Cyclops, Pilgrim's Progress, Cinderella, Keats, Dickens, Shakespeare, elves, evil spell, lucky star, ghost, fairy, Ten Commandments, Madonna and child, Eve, Noah's ark).




Grammardog Guide to Uncle Tom's Cabin


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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.




Grammardog Guide to Wuthering Heights


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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language and allusions are characteristic of Romanticism: "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same, and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning or frost from fire." "It had got dusk, and the moon looked over the high wall of the court." "He's a bird of bad omen." Allusions: ghost, witches, imps, fairies, vampires, goblin.




Grammardog Guide to Jude the Obscure


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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 Twelfth Night


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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 ("Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them." "If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it." "Better a witty fool than a foolish wit." "I have unclasped to thee the book even of my secret soul." "She sat like Patience on a monument, smiling at grief.").




Grammardog Guide to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland


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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.




Grammardog Guide to Through the Looking-Glass


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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?").




Grammardog Guide to O. Henry Short Stories


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The Gift of the Magi, The Skylight Room, The Cop and the Anthem, The Ransom of Red Chief, Hearts and Hands.Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for these short stories. All sentences are from the stories. Figurative language includes: "sea of asphalt," "shook him until his freckles rattled," "skyrocket of a kid," "butterfly days," "like a welter-weight cinnamon bear." Alliteration includes: "Mr. Hoover who was forty-five, fat, flush and foolish," "life is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles, and sniffles predominating."




Grammardog Guide to The Turn of the Screw


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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."