Download or read book Grammardog Guide to The Rocking Horse Winner written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this short story. All sentences are from the story. Figurative language includes: "She married for love, and the love turned to dust." "She felt the center of her heart go hard." "Bassett was serious as a church" "The house whispers." Alliteration includes: "His mother had sudden strange seizures." "There must be more money!" "Then suddenly she switched on the light and saw her son."
Download or read book Grammardog Guide to Huckleberry Finn 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 classic American novel. All sentences are from the novel. Language in this coming of age story features rhyme ("rumbling, grumbling, tumbling down the sky") and onomatopoeia (Lightning is "hwhack!" Thunder is "bum! bum! bumble-umble-umbum-bum-bum-bum!" A horse's gallop is "Plunkety-plunk, plunkety-plunk"). A quiz on humor terms identifies sentences containing hyperbole, colloquialism and malapropism.
Download or read book Grammardog Guide to The Importance of Being Earnest written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this satiric farce. All sentences are from the play. Wordplay, puns and wit are plentiful ("she is a monster without being a myth," "all good looks are a snare," "the shallow mask of manners," "If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life," "London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have of their own free choice remained thirty-five for years."). Allusions and symbols satirize Victorian attitudes on gender equality, moral virtue, social class, religion and marriage.
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 Julius Caesar written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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").
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 Lord Jim written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2006-07 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 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").
Download or read book Grammardog Guide to The Awakening 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 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").
Download or read book Grammardog Guide to King Lear written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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").
Download or read book Grammardog Guide to Gulliver s Travels written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2007-09-15 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this satiric novel. All sentences are from the novel. Sentences satirize government, laws and moral virtues (Reward and punishment are "the two hinges upon which all government turns." "Ingratitude is among them a capital crime." "It is the maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again." "The question to be debated was whether the yahoos should be exterminated from the face of the earth.").
Download or read book Grammardog Guide to White Fang written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2004-04 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 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."
Download or read book Grammardog Guide to Civil Disobedience written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this influential essay. All sentences are from the essay. Familiar quotes include, "That government is best which governs least." Figurative language compares voting to a game of checkers and government to a machine. Allusions cover mythology, religion and history (Orpheus, Christ, Luther, Caesar, Copernicus, Washington, Franklin).
Download or read book Grammardog Guide to Heny V written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).
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 Benito Cereno 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 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").
Download or read book Grammardog Guide to Moby Dick 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 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."
Download or read book Grammardog Guide to Wuthering Heights 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 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.
