Grammardog Guide to Billy Budd
Grammardog Guide to Billy Budd

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2003-08

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570150

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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).

Grammardog Guide to Oliver Twist
Grammardog Guide to Oliver Twist

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2006-07

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570509

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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."

Grammardog Guide to Benito Cereno
Grammardog Guide to Benito Cereno

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2003-08

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570142

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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").

Grammardog Guide to Julius Caesar
Grammardog Guide to Julius Caesar

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2005-03

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570622

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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 ("Beware the Ides of March," "Et tu, Brute?" "Friends, Romans, countrymen lend me your ears," "let slip the dogs of war," "I am constant as the northern star," "It was Greek to me," "Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look," "If you have tears, prepare to shed them now," "This was the most unkindest cut of all," "the fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves that we are underlings").

Grammardog Guide to The Sea Wolf
Grammardog Guide to The Sea Wolf

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2009-01-15

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 1608571807

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes: "A steamboat emerged trailing fog wreaths on either side like seaweed on the snout of Leviathan." "He accepted destiny, marched hand in hand with it." "Life . . . was a cipher in the arithmetic of commerce." Sensory imagery includes: "the mournful tolling of a bell," "sour-smelling garments," "two rows of tobacco-discolored teeth," "fresh-baked bread," "her hair was brushing my face."

Grammardog Guide to Chopin Short Stories
Grammardog Guide to Chopin Short Stories

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570177

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At Cheniere Caminada, Athenaise, Desiree's Baby, The Story of an Hour, Wiser Than a God.Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this short story collection. All sentences are from the stories. Language describes the culture and setting of the Louisiana Gulf Coast in the late 1800s where women characters begin to question traditional roles (Is "marriage a trap" or can it be "what story books promise?"). Figurative language reflects the conflict between religion, the expectations of the Southern culture and personal choice (Faust, Eve, Holy Ghost, Satan, Judgment Day, Terpsichore and goddess of Victory).

Grammardog Guide to Heart of Darkness
Grammardog Guide to Heart of Darkness

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2003-08

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570444

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this classic novella. All sentences are from the novella. Figurative language contrasts civilization with the power of prehistoric nature ("the forest stepped leisurely across the water," "the woods looked with their air of hidden knowledge"). Allusions recall civilizing forces in history (Sir Francis Drake, Romans, Knights, Buddha).

Grammardog Guide to Rikki Tikki Tavi
Grammardog Guide to Rikki Tikki Tavi

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2007-05

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570770

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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 Innocents Abroad
Grammardog Guide to The Innocents Abroad

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2006-10

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570223

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this humorous travel book. All sentences are from the book. Figurative language describes the tourist experience ("great guns frown out upon sea and town," "a snowstorm of waving handkerchiefs," "The street called Straight is straighter than a corkscrew, but not as straight as a rainbow."). Allusions include mythology, religion, literature, history and folklore (Columbus, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Romulus, Aladdin, Shylock, Othello, Agamemnon, St. Mark, Eve, Garden of Eden).

Grammardog Guide to Sherlock Holmes Stories
Grammardog Guide to Sherlock Holmes Stories

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2005-11

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570533

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The Red-headed League, The Adventure of the Speckled Band, The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb, The Crooked Man, The Final Problem. Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for these short stories. All sentences are from the stories. Figurative language includes: "The bare sight of me was like a bullet through his guilty heart." "The roadway was blocked with the immense stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward . . ." ". . . we saw a gigantic column of smoke which . . . hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape." Onomatopoeia includes: "clinked," "clang," "hiss," "whishing," "clank," and "swish."