Download or read book Grammardog Guide to The Mayor of Casterbridge written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2005-11 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 examples of Naturalism ("his lie had been the last desperate throw of a gamester," "you are the door through which wrong has come to me," "Time, the magician, had wrought much here"). Allusions include history, mythology, religion, literature and Naturalism (Hadrian, Constantine, Calpurnia, Faust, Romeo, Robinson Crusoe, Ovid, Aphrodite, Achilles, Jacob, Cain, Saul, sheer luck, malignant star, the hands of Time).
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 Jude the Obscure written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2008-04 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 is characteristic of Naturalism ("the oars smacking with a loud kiss on the face of the stream," "Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?"). Allusions include references to mythology, religion, literature, Naturalism and fatalism, and folklore and superstition (Iliad, Venus Apollo, Robinson Crusoe, Voltaire, fate, Eve, Nemesis, fairy, sprite, Apostle's Creed).
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 2009-01-15 with total page 56 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: "Death is a dignitary," "the brooding mists," "like the voice of Niagara," "the cannon had taken a hand in the game." Alliteration includes: "By nightfall he was fatigued, footsore, famishing." "The sounds increased in strength and sharpness."
Download or read book Grammardog Guide to Life on the Mississippi written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this travel book. All sentences are from the book. Figurative language describes the voyage up the Mississippi ("gray beards of Spanish moss," "water's mulatto complexion," "the desert of water," "dense forest that guards the two banks," "angry ridge of water," "a boat hates shoal water"). Allusions include many references to literature (Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Dante, Don Quixote, Frankenstein, Richard III, Othello).
Download or read book Grammardog Guide to Emma written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2007-11 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 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").
Download or read book Grammardog Guide to Hamlet 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 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).
Download or read book Grammardog Guide to Walden written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this essay. All sentences are from the essay. Quizzes feature famous quotes: "Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in." "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." "When a man dies he kicks the dust." "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer." "I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life." "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately." "In the long run men hit only what they aim at." "Simplify, simplify." "It is never too late to give up prejudices." "Our life is frittered away by detail."
Download or read book Grammardog Guide to Evangeline written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this epic poem. All sentences are from the poem. Elements of Romanticism include the personification of nature ("sea fogs pitched their tents," "the great sun looked with an eye of love," "the restless heart of the ocean," "the whispering rain") and allusions to religion, folklore superstitions and mythology (Mary, Jacob Abraham, Elijah, Eden, four leaved clover, horseshoes, mystic mistletoe, Titan, Olympus, Dryad).
Download or read book Grammardog Guide to Middlemarch written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2007-04 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 includes "harness of routine," "the swamp of awkwardness," "the long valley of her life," "the cobweb of pre-matrimonial acquaintanceship," "feelings had gathered to an avalanche," "Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand").
Download or read book Grammardog Guide to Macbeth written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2005-02 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 ("Fair is foul and foul is fair." "Double, double toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble." "Something wicked this way comes." "But screw your courage to the sticking place and we'll not fail." "Is this a dagger I see before me?" "False face must hide what the false heart doth know." "Out, damned spot." "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.").
Download or read book Grammardog Guide to Nature written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this essay. All sentences are from the essay. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("We aim above the mark to hit the mark." "Nature cannot be surprised in undress." "Great causes are never tried on their merits." "How inconceivably remote is man." "I can no longer live without elegance." Allusions are drawn from history, religion and mythology: Versailles, Gabriel, Luther, Eden, angels of darkness, Apollo, Diana, Pan, Proteus, Oedipus.
Download or read book Grammardog Guide to Othello written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2005-06 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 ("O, beware my lord of jealousy. It is the green-ey'd monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on." "Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit and lost without deserving." "How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?" "But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at." "I kissed thee ere I killed thee." "Then must you speak of one that loved not wisely but too well." "She was false as water." "Give me ocular proof." "And when I love thee not, chaos is come again." "We cannot all be masters.").
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.
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 David Copperfield written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this classic novel. All sentences are from the novel. The coming of age story is rich in sensory imagery ("wind howling," "broiled mutton and beer," "a clammy hand," "fragrance of lemon peel and sugar," "eager black eyes"). Allusions pertain to religion, literature and Greek mythology (Lazarus, Noah, Job, Cain, Samson, Hamlet, Macbeth, Robinson Crusoe, Titans, Bacchanalia, Phoebus).
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).
