Grammardog Guide to Evangeline
Grammardog Guide to Evangeline

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2008-08

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570088

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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 Much Ado About Nothing
Grammardog Guide to Much Ado About Nothing

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2006-08

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570673

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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 Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Grammardog Guide to Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2004-08

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1608570568

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes: "When sorrow ceases to be speculative, sleep sees her opportunity." "The pair were in truth but the ashes of their former fires." "Having been lying down in her clothes, she was warm as a sunned cat." "He looked at the fire of logs, with its one flame pirouetting on the top in a dying dance." "The university as a step to anything but ordination seemed . . . a preface without a volume."

Grammardog Guide to Through the Looking-Glass
Grammardog Guide to Through the Looking-Glass

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2009-02

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 1608571815

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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?").

Grammardog Guide to The Turn of the Screw
Grammardog Guide to The Turn of the Screw

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2009-02-15

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 1608571858

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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 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 As You Like It
Grammardog Guide to As You Like It

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2005-04

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570592

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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").