Grammardog Guide to The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Grammardog Guide to The Outcasts of Poker Flat

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2008-05

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 160857007X

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this short story. All sentences are from the story. Figurative language includes: "life was at best an uncertain game," "the accordion rose and fell in fitful spasms and long-drawn gasps." Sensory imagery includes: "dry, cold, bracing air," "a giggle," "a kiss," "freckled face," "stroked his mustaches," "blue eyes," "whiskey," "the reedy notes of the accordion," "long embrace," "voices," "footsteps."

Grammardog Guide to The Hound of the Baskervilles
Grammardog Guide to The Hound of the Baskervilles

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2004-06

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570452

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this iconic crime novel. All sentences are from the novel. Sensory imagery is used to create tone and suspense ("I heard a key turn somewhere in a lock . . ." ". . . the cold night wind beat in upon our faces." ". . . the dull moaning of the autumn wind and the rustle of falling leaves." "I heard the creak of a door and the crisp sound of boots upon gravel." "Rank reeds and lush, slimy water plants sent an odour of decay . . ." ". . . a dread cry echoed over the moor.").

Grammardog Guide to The Scarlet Letter
Grammardog Guide to The Scarlet Letter

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2003-08

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570312

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this classic American novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language exemplifies Romanticism (leaves "whisper," pine trees "moan," ". . . the sunshine does not love you."). Allusions characteristic of Romanticism include "magic circle," "magician's wand," "elfish spirit," "nymph-child," "fairies," "witches," "Eden" and "Pentecost."

Grammardog Guide to Jude the Obscure
Grammardog Guide to Jude the Obscure

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2008-04

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570037

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language is characteristic of Naturalism ("the oars smacking with a loud kiss on the face of the stream," "Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?"). Allusions include references to mythology, religion, literature, Naturalism and fatalism, and folklore and superstition (Iliad, Venus Apollo, Robinson Crusoe, Voltaire, fate, Eve, Nemesis, fairy, sprite, Apostle's Creed).

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 Life on the Mississippi
Grammardog Guide to Life on the Mississippi

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2006-11

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 160857024X

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this travel book. All sentences are from the book. Figurative language describes the voyage up the Mississippi ("gray beards of Spanish moss," "water's mulatto complexion," "the desert of water," "dense forest that guards the two banks," "angry ridge of water," "a boat hates shoal water"). Allusions include many references to literature (Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Dante, Don Quixote, Frankenstein, Richard III, Othello).

Grammardog Guide to Anthem
Grammardog Guide to Anthem

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570118

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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 Emma
Grammardog Guide to Emma

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2007-11

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570851

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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 The Picture of Dorian Gray
Grammardog Guide to The Picture of Dorian Gray

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2006-12

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570096

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes: "She is a peacock in everything but beauty." "He becomes an echo of someone else's music." "Time is jealous of you." "like a third-rate wedding cake." Allusions to mythology, religion and literature include: Juliet, Tartuffe, Caliban, Dante, Adonis, Artemis, Athena, Sphinxes, Narcissus, Eve, Roman Catholic, "Lead us not into temptation," "seven deadly sins."

Grammardog Guide to Macbeth
Grammardog Guide to Macbeth

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2005-02

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570649

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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.").