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Grammardog Guide to Pride and Prejudice

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 44,38 MB

Release : 2004-07

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570517

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes: "Pride has often been his best friend." "Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her." "Anybody might have heard us ten miles off." "But no such recollection befriended her." "A thousand things may arise in six months." Alliteration includes: "directed all his anger against another," "Bingley had never met with pleasanter people or prettier girls in his life."



Grammardog Guide to Hamlet

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 19,77 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 Heny V

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 21,77 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).



Grammardog Guide to Emma

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 47,54 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 Treasure Island

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 44,74 MB

Release : 2004-09

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570576

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Sensory imagery includes: "a strong smell of tobacco and tar" "a jingle of broken glass" "the windows had neat red curtains" "the swish of the sea" "we had eaten our pork" "wiping the sweat from his brow." Alliteration includes: "The supervisor stood up straight and stiff and told his story" "daylight dwindled and disappeared" "He was the flower of the flock, was Flint." Allusions include: Noah, Davy Jones, Jolly Roger.



Grammardog Guide to Benito Cereno

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 24,80 MB

Release : 2003-08

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570142

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this mystery thriller at sea. All sentences are from the short story. Figurative language creates a dark tone, suspicion and suspense (The ship was a "slumbering volcano." The slaves sat "sphinx-like" while chanting low like "bag-pipers playing a funeral march."). Allusions support the theme of mystery and secrecy ("Gordian knots," "Guy-Fawkes," "freemason" "and dark satyr in a mask").



Grammardog Guide to Self-Reliance

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 57 pages

File Size : 11,9 MB

Release : 2007-06

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570827

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this essay. All sentences are from the essay. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("To be great is to be misunderstood." "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist." "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself." "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds . . ." "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; imitation is suicide." "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.").



Grammardog Guide to Ethan Frome

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 44,35 MB

Release : 2008-06

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570894

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language describes a harsh winter in Massachusetts ("the storms of February had pitched their white tents about the devoted village," "Far off above us a square of light trembled through the screen of snow"). Allusions to constellations express the theme of hopes and dreams of life beyond the remote village (Orion, Pleiades, the Dipper, Sirius).



Grammardog Guide to Billy Budd

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 16,10 MB

Release : 2003-08

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570150

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this sea tale. All sentences are from the novella. Figurative language compares the innocent Billy Budd to birds (goldfinch, migratory bird) and "a young horse fresh from the farm." Biblical allusions support the theme of difficult moral decisions (Adam, the serpent and the apple of knowledge, Abraham and Isaac, Jonah, Saul and David, and Joseph).



Grammardog Guide to Jane Eyre

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 11,4 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).