Download or read book Grammardog Guide to Up From Slavery 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 autobiography. All sentences are from the autobiography. Quizzes include famous quotes: "In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress." " . . . a man cannot learn the exercise of self-government by ceasing to vote any more than a boy can learn to swim by keeping out of the water." "I think that the according of the full exercise of political rights is going to be a matter of natural, slow growth, not an overnight gourd-vine affair."

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 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 Kidnapped written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2007-10 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 outstanding examples of personification ("his eyes playing hide and seek with mine," "fear had me by the throat," "sleep at length stole from me the consciousness of sorrow"). Onomatopoeia includes "tee-hee" and "ahem." Allusions focus on history, folklore and religion (Rob Roy, Charlemagne, Charles the Second, Protestant, Solomon, Catholics, warlock, witches, fairies).

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 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?").

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 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 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 Anthem written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2004 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this dystopic tale. All sentences are from the novel. Quizzes use short sentences characteristic of the futuristic genre. Figurative language contrasts nature with the sterile world of dystopia ("blue as morning," "puddle of light," "the trees have swallowed the ruins"). Allusions reflect the conflict between government and technology and mythology and archetypal symbols that stir the emotions.

Download or read book Grammardog Guide to Twain Short Stories written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, Luck, Is He Living Or Is He Dead?, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, The Mysterious Stranger. Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for these short stories. All sentences are from the stories. Figurative language includes: "the next minute you'd see that frog whirling in the air like a doughnut" "he traveled like a duke" "a tornado of applause" "as solid as a gob of mud" "from the top of the precipice frowned a vast castle" "man is a museum of diseases" "I have examined his billion of possible careers." Allusions include: Frankenstein, Caesar, Napoleon, Socrates, Daniel Webster, Andrew Jackson.

Download or read book Grammardog Guide to The Prince and the Pauper written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2005-09 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. Figurative language includes: "the forest of legs," "Hunger is pride's master," "busy as ants," "He felt much as a man might who had danced blithely out to enjoy a rainbow and got struck by lightning." Alliteration includes: "The high hedge hid him," "He bathed his bleeding feet in the brook," "After hours of persistent pursuit and persecution, the little prince was at last deserted . . ."

Download or read book Grammardog Guide to The Legend of Sleepy Hollow written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this famous short story. All sentences are from the story. Alliteration includes ("Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow," "women's hearts were wooed and won," "ready for either a fight or a frolic," "suitable for such a steed"). Allusions include references to mythology, religion, chivalry and folklore (Sabbath, psalm, ghosts, goblins, omens, magic, castle keep, knight-errant, Hercules, Achilles, Mercury).

Download or read book Grammardog Guide to the Taming of the Shrew 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 comedy. All sentences are from the play. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("If I be waspish, best beware my sting." "Where is the life that late I led?" "We will have rings and things and fine array." "There's small choice in rotten apples." "He that runs fastest gets the ring." "Being mad herself, she's madly mated." "First, kiss me Kate."). Onomatopoeia includes: "smack," "slish," "slash."

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 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 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).