Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 28,15 MB
Release : 2008-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 1608570010
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this poem. All sentences are from the poem. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("I stop somewhere waiting for you." "I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake." "I sound my barbaric YAWP over the roofs of the world." "All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses and to die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier.").
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 20,61 MB
Release : 2006-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 1608570738
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.").
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 20,10 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 : 56 pages
File Size : 37,24 MB
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1608571831
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this early horror novel. All sentences are from the novel. Sensory imagery establishes the iconic components of a vampire tale ("rattling chains," "sharp white teeth," "a deathly sickly odor," "garlic smell," "red light," "hinges creaked," "sulphurous fume," "howl of wolves").
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 20,48 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 : 56 pages
File Size : 20,18 MB
Release : 2005-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 1608570193
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, The Open Boat, The Veteran, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, The Blue Hotel.Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for these short stories. All sentences are from the stories. Crane's skill as a poet shines in these tales of the Old West, American Civil War, and 19th century New York City. Poetic devices include assonance ("vast flats of green grass"), consonance ("struck him in the back of the neck"), alliteration ("he bent to bail out the boat"), rhyme ("free sea," "seen the sheen") and repetition ("There was no offer of fight - no offer of fight").
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 48,95 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 : 55 pages
File Size : 25,50 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 1608570177
At Cheniere Caminada, Athenaise, Desiree's Baby, The Story of an Hour, Wiser Than a God.Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this short story collection. All sentences are from the stories. Language describes the culture and setting of the Louisiana Gulf Coast in the late 1800s where women characters begin to question traditional roles (Is "marriage a trap" or can it be "what story books promise?"). Figurative language reflects the conflict between religion, the expectations of the Southern culture and personal choice (Faust, Eve, Holy Ghost, Satan, Judgment Day, Terpsichore and goddess of Victory).
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 29,92 MB
Release : 2004-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 1608570517
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."
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 40,58 MB
Release : 2003-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 1608570134
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this story set in the early days of Wall Street. All sentences are from the short story. Figurative language describes Bartleby as "a bit of wreckage in the mid-Atlantic" and "a millstone" to his boss. Allusions mention tycoon John Jacob Astor and geographical locations such as Broadway, Jersey City and Hoboken.
