Download or read book Grammardog Guide to Hard Times written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes "the midnight of his mind," "grinding at the mill of knowledge," and "like a sad sea." Allusions pertain to mythology (Centaur, Cupid, Venus, Furies), religion (Adam, Good Samaritan, serpent in the garden, Judas Iscariot), folklore (fairies, genies, dragon) and literature (Shakespeare, Goldsmith, Robinson Crusoe, "Alas poor Yorick!").

Download or read book Grammardog Guide to Little Women written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2007 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).

Download or read book Grammardog Guide to As You Like It written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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").

Download or read book Grammardog Guide to The Comedy of Errors written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this hilarious Shakespearean farce. All sentences are from the play. Wordplay, puns and jokes are plentiful ("Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine." "Thou drone, thou snail, thou slug, thou sot."). Allusions in this comedy are as mixed up as the plot about two sets of twins separated at birth (the fates, Circe, sorcerers, Father Time, fairy land, goblins, witches, mermaids, Adam, Noah and the prodigal son).

Download or read book Grammardog Guide to the Merchant of Venice written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this Shakespearean comedy. All sentences are from the play. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("Hath not a Jew eyes?" "If you prick us do we not bleed?" "If you tickle us do we not laugh?" "The quality of mercy is not strain'd. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath." "a pound of flesh").

Download or read book Grammardog Guide to The Call of the Wild written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2004-02 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Grammardog Guide to Twelfth Night written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.").

Download or read book Grammardog Guide to The Hound of the Baskervilles written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.").

Download or read book Grammardog Guide to Chopin Short Stories written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2006 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).

Download or read book Grammardog Guide to Jane Eyre written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).

Download or read book Grammardog Guide to Billy Budd written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).

Download or read book Grammardog Guide to Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this memoir. All sentences are from the book. Figurative language includes: "slavery would not always hold me within its foul embrace," "the bitterest dregs of slavery," "the tomb of slavery," "the arms of slavery." Allusions are drawn from history, religion and literature: Napoleon, Patrick Henry, Spartans, Job, Ham, Methodist, Whittier, "Lady of the Lake."

Download or read book Grammardog Guide to Rikki Tikki Tavi written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this adventure story. All sentences are from the short story. The simple story uses all the elements of figurative language, poetic devices, sensory imagery and allusions. Quizzes feature the personification of Evil and Death and allusions to war, survival, and civilization. Onomatopoeia includes "Ding-dong-tock! cheep, and whack."

Download or read book Grammardog Guide to The Sea Wolf written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2009-01-15 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes: "A steamboat emerged trailing fog wreaths on either side like seaweed on the snout of Leviathan." "He accepted destiny, marched hand in hand with it." "Life . . . was a cipher in the arithmetic of commerce." Sensory imagery includes: "the mournful tolling of a bell," "sour-smelling garments," "two rows of tobacco-discolored teeth," "fresh-baked bread," "her hair was brushing my face."

Download or read book Grammardog Guide to A Christmas Carol written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this English classic. All sentences are from the novel. Quizzes are chock full of familiar quotes ("Dead as a door-nail, as good as gold, light as a feather"). Excellent alliteration ("No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him), and a fun mix of allusions that include ghosts, goblins, Hamlet, Cain and Abel, Ali Baba and Robinson Crusoe.

Download or read book Grammardog Guide to Treasure Island written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Grammardog Guide to Through the Looking Glass written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?").