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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 The Outcasts of Poker Flat written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2008-05 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: "life was at best an uncertain game," "the accordion rose and fell in fitful spasms and long-drawn gasps." Sensory imagery includes: "dry, cold, bracing air," "a giggle," "a kiss," "freckled face," "stroked his mustaches," "blue eyes," "whiskey," "the reedy notes of the accordion," "long embrace," "voices," "footsteps."
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 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 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 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 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 Great Expectations written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 54 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. Figurative language is abundant ("a haystack of buttered toast," "the closet whispered, the fireplace sighed," "a post office of a mouth," "so very blank and high was the dead wall of her face"). Allusions are drawn from mythology (Hercules, myrmidons, Telemachus, Cupid, Argus), religion (Noah's ark, Cain, Lord's Prayer) and literature (Hamlet, Coriolanus, Richard III, Anthony's oration in Julius Caesar, Timon of Athens).
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 The Turn of the Screw written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2009-02-15 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: "long slumbering hospitality seemed to be easily awakened," "the sharp dry twigs caught and held her and scratched her like talons," "The old pine must have loved his new dependent." "the great world for the first time puts out a hand to her," "the murmur of the pine's green branches is in her ears," "there was the huge tree asleep yet in the paling moonlight."
