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Grammardog Guide to The Hound of the Baskervilles

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 18,87 MB

Release : 2004-06

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570452

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this iconic crime novel. All sentences are from the novel. Sensory imagery is used to create tone and suspense ("I heard a key turn somewhere in a lock . . ." ". . . the cold night wind beat in upon our faces." ". . . the dull moaning of the autumn wind and the rustle of falling leaves." "I heard the creak of a door and the crisp sound of boots upon gravel." "Rank reeds and lush, slimy water plants sent an odour of decay . . ." ". . . a dread cry echoed over the moor.").



Grammardog Guide to Much Ado About Nothing

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 44,50 MB

Release : 2006-08

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570673

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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 ("What, my dear Lady Disdain! Are you yet living?" "For man is a giddy thing." "I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me." "When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married." "There was a star danced and under that was I born." "What's the matter that you have such a February face. . .'").



Grammardog Guide to White Fang

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 40,13 MB

Release : 2004-04

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570355

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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 Naturalism: "On the sled in a box lay a third man whose toil was over -- a man whom the Wild had conquered and beaten down until he would never move nor struggle again." "So there was no damming up the tide of life that was rising within him." "The night yawned about him." "some strange freak of Chance," "ruled over by Chance, merciless, planless, endless," "Fortune seemed to favor him."



Grammardog Guide to Oliver Twist

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 37,24 MB

Release : 2006-07

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570509

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes: "The smallest of all possible kettles was singing a small song." "I have made a coffin of my heart and sealed it up." "There is no chord in your heart that I can touch." "Providence must sleep." Sensory imagery includes: "the key grated in the lock," "garden flowers perfumed the air," "his eyes were bloodshot," "a slice of bread and butter," "a passionate kiss upon her chaste nose."



Grammardog Guide to The Awakening

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 45,56 MB

Release : 2003-08

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570126

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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").



Grammardog Guide to Moby Dick

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 25,7 MB

Release : 2003-08

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570266

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes: "a whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard," "silent islands of men and women," "The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jeweled velvets," "He lived in the world as the last of the Grisly Bears lived in settled Missouri," "the chick that's in him pecks the shell," "in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti."



Grammardog Guide to Lord Jim

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 16,20 MB

Release : 2006-07

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570479

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language features onomatopoeia ("tap tap," "crunch crunch," "swish swish," "bang," "thump"), and language characteristic of Naturalism ("There was not the thickness of a sheet of paper between the right and wrong of this affair." "The chilly Antarctic can keep a secret." ". . . sniffing the intoxicating breath of that wasted opportunity").



Grammardog Guide to King Lear

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 16,9 MB

Release : 2005-03

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570630

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this Shakespearean tragedy. All sentences are from the play. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("nothing will come of nothing," "This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen," "Blow winds, and crack your cheeks," "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child," "I am a man more sinned against than sinning," "Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say," "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools," "The art of our necessities is strange and can make vile things precious").



Grammardog Guide to Julius Caesar

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 55 pages

File Size : 41,58 MB

Release : 2005-03

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570622

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this Shakespearean tragedy. All sentences are from the play. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("Beware the Ides of March," "Et tu, Brute?" "Friends, Romans, countrymen lend me your ears," "let slip the dogs of war," "I am constant as the northern star," "It was Greek to me," "Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look," "If you have tears, prepare to shed them now," "This was the most unkindest cut of all," "the fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves that we are underlings").



Grammardog Guide to Silas Marner

Author : Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher : Grammardog LLC

Page : 57 pages

File Size : 15,66 MB

Release : 2006-06

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608570541

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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 Realism ("The coins he earned afterwards seemed as irrelevant as stones brought to complete a house suddenly buried by an earthquake." "He seemed to weave like the spider from pure impulse without reflection." "The thoughts were stranger to him now like old friendships impossible to revive." "The gold had asked that he should sit weaving longer and longer, deafened and blinded more and more to all things except the monotony of his loom . . .").