Download or read book Grammardog Guide to the Rime of the Ancient Mariner written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this iconic poem. All sentences are from the poem. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink." "as idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean" "Alone, alone, all, all alone, alone on a wide, wide sea; and never a saint took pity on my soul in agony." "And a thousand, thousand slimy things lived on and so did I." "Instead of the cross, the Albatross about my neck was hung." "He prayeth well who loveth well both man and bird and beast.").
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 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 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 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 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 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 Frankenstein 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 Gothic novel. All sentences are from the novel. Elements of Romanticism include descriptions of the power of nature to revive the human spirit, the nobility of the common man, the joy of country life, and the conflict between science and the supernatural realm. Religious and literary allusions include Adam, Eve, Satan, Homer, Shakespeare, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," "Paradise Lost," King Arthur and Dante.
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 The Tempest 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 comedy. All sentences are from the play. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("O, brave new world that has such people in it." "What's past is prologue." "We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep." "Full fathom five thy father lies." "Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows." "Good wombs have borne bad sons.").
Download or read book Grammardog Guide to Ethan Frome written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2008-06 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 describes a harsh winter in Massachusetts ("the storms of February had pitched their white tents about the devoted village," "Far off above us a square of light trembled through the screen of snow"). Allusions to constellations express the theme of hopes and dreams of life beyond the remote village (Orion, Pleiades, the Dipper, Sirius).
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 Silas Marner written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 57 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 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 . . .").
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 Oliver Twist 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 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."
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).
