Grammardog Guide to A Connecticut Yankee

Grammardog Guide to A Connecticut Yankee PDF Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
ISBN: 1608570185
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 55

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Book Description
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this satiric novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language shows off Twain's skill at metaphor ("I was mere dirt," a nation of worms," "wide seas of memory," "he was but an extinct volcano"). Allusions include famous literary and historical adventures (Robinson Crusoe, Ivanhoe, Chaucer, Columbus, Northwest Passage).

Grammardog Guide to A Connecticut Yankee

Grammardog Guide to A Connecticut Yankee PDF Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
ISBN: 1608570185
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 55

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Book Description
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this satiric novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language shows off Twain's skill at metaphor ("I was mere dirt," a nation of worms," "wide seas of memory," "he was but an extinct volcano"). Allusions include famous literary and historical adventures (Robinson Crusoe, Ivanhoe, Chaucer, Columbus, Northwest Passage).

Grammardog Guide to Much Ado About Nothing

Grammardog Guide to Much Ado About Nothing PDF Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
ISBN: 1608570673
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 55

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this Shakespearean comedy. All sentences are from the play. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("What, my dear Lady Disdain! Are you yet living?" "For man is a giddy thing." "I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me." "When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married." "There was a star danced and under that was I born." "What's the matter that you have such a February face. . .'").

Grammardog Guide to The Turn of the Screw

Grammardog Guide to The Turn of the Screw PDF Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
ISBN: 1608571858
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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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."

Grammardog Guide to The Rocking-Horse Winner

Grammardog Guide to The Rocking-Horse Winner PDF Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
ISBN: 1608570029
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 55

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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."

Grammardog Guide to Rikki Tikki Tavi

Grammardog Guide to Rikki Tikki Tavi PDF Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
ISBN: 1608570770
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 55

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this adventure story. All sentences are from the short story. The simple story uses all the elements of figurative language, poetic devices, sensory imagery and allusions. Quizzes feature the personification of Evil and Death and allusions to war, survival, and civilization. Onomatopoeia includes "Ding-dong-tock! cheep, and whack."

Grammardog Guide to The House of the Seven Gables

Grammardog Guide to The House of the Seven Gables PDF Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
ISBN: 1608570045
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 55

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language establishes the mood of Gothic Romantic gloom (". . . the opaque puddle of obscurity . . ." "Poverty, treading closely at her heels for a lifetime . . . " ". . . the smile was sunshine under a thundercloud." "The vapor of the broiled fish arose like incense from the shrine of a barbarian." "The shadow creeps and creeps and is always looking over the shoulder of sunshine.").

Grammardog Guide to Heny V

Grammardog Guide to Heny V PDF Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
ISBN: 1608570746
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 55

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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).

Grammardog Guide to Bartleby the Scrivener

Grammardog Guide to Bartleby the Scrivener PDF Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
ISBN: 1608570134
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 55

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this story set in the early days of Wall Street. All sentences are from the short story. Figurative language describes Bartleby as "a bit of wreckage in the mid-Atlantic" and "a millstone" to his boss. Allusions mention tycoon John Jacob Astor and geographical locations such as Broadway, Jersey City and Hoboken.

Grammardog Guide to A Midsummer Night's Dream

Grammardog Guide to A Midsummer Night's Dream PDF Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
ISBN: 1608570665
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 53

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Book Description
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this Shakespearean comedy. All sentences are from the play. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("Lord, what fools these mortals be!" "If we shadows have offended, think but this and all is mended . . ." "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."). Alliteration includes this tongue-twister: "Whereat, with blade, with bloody blameful blade, he bravely broached his boiling bloody beast."

Grammardog Guide to Hard Times

Grammardog Guide to Hard Times PDF Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
ISBN: 1608570436
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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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!").