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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Book Description
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 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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Book Description
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 Emma

Grammardog Guide to Emma PDF Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
ISBN: 1608570851
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 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").

Grammardog Guide to Walden

Grammardog Guide to Walden PDF Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
ISBN: 1608570843
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 55

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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."

Grammardog Guide to Anthem

Grammardog Guide to Anthem PDF Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
ISBN: 1608570118
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 55

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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.

Grammardog Guide to Hamlet

Grammardog Guide to Hamlet PDF Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
ISBN: 1608570614
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 55

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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).

Grammardog Guide to Kidnapped

Grammardog Guide to Kidnapped PDF Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
ISBN: 1608570800
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 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).

Grammardog Guide to Evangeline

Grammardog Guide to Evangeline PDF Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
ISBN: 1608570088
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 55

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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).

Grammardog Guide to Othello

Grammardog Guide to Othello PDF Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
ISBN: 1608570681
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 55

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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.").

Grammardog Guide to Nature

Grammardog Guide to Nature PDF Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
ISBN: 1608570835
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 55

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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.

Grammardog Guide to Macbeth

Grammardog Guide to Macbeth PDF Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
ISBN: 1608570649
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 55

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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.").