Grammardog Guide to Wuthering Heights
Grammardog Guide to Wuthering Heights

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2003-08

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570584

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language and allusions are characteristic of Romanticism: "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same, and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning or frost from fire." "It had got dusk, and the moon looked over the high wall of the court." "He's a bird of bad omen." Allusions: ghost, witches, imps, fairies, vampires, goblin.

Grammardog Guide to A Connecticut Yankee
Grammardog Guide to A Connecticut Yankee

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2005-09

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570185

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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 Christmas Carol
Grammardog Guide to A Christmas Carol

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2004-05

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570371

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this English classic. All sentences are from the novel. Quizzes are chock full of familiar quotes ("Dead as a door-nail, as good as gold, light as a feather"). Excellent alliteration ("No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him), and a fun mix of allusions that include ghosts, goblins, Hamlet, Cain and Abel, Ali Baba and Robinson Crusoe.

Grammardog Guide to Up From Slavery
Grammardog Guide to Up From Slavery

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2007-11

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570053

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this autobiography. All sentences are from the autobiography. Quizzes include famous quotes: "In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress." " . . . a man cannot learn the exercise of self-government by ceasing to vote any more than a boy can learn to swim by keeping out of the water." "I think that the according of the full exercise of political rights is going to be a matter of natural, slow growth, not an overnight gourd-vine affair."

Grammardog Guide to Uncle Tom's Cabin
Grammardog Guide to Uncle Tom's Cabin

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2006-11

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570347

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes: "evil rolls off Eva's mind like dew off a cabbage leaf - not a drop sinks in" "he's a regular hearse for blackness and sobriety" "to mend the broken threads of life and weave it again into a tissue of brightness." Onomatopoeia includes: plump! kerchunk! kerplash! c'wallop! chunk! bump! bump! bump! creechy crawchy. Allusions include: Shakespeare, Aladdin, Byron, Don Quixote.

Grammardog Guide to Bartleby the Scrivener
Grammardog Guide to Bartleby the Scrivener

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2003-08

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570134

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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 London Short Stories
Grammardog Guide to London Short Stories

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2006-09

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 1608570258

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All Gold Canyon, The Mexican, The Story of Jees Uck, The White Silence, To Build a Fire.Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for these short stories. All sentences are from the stories. London's literary style and themes are examples of Naturalism. Figurative language includes: "the trembling lips of nature," "The White Silence seemed to sneer," "the stars that leaped and danced," "light laughed and life invited," "the leaves, wise with experience," "the stream once more drowsed and whispered," "for generations destiny had had this one end in view."

Grammardog Guide to Rip Van Winkle
Grammardog Guide to Rip Van Winkle

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2007-06

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570789

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this short story. All sentences are from the story. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use." "But what courage can withstand the ever-during and all-besetting terrors of a woman's tongue?") Figurative language includes: "like a colt at his mother's heels," "the yoke of matrimony," "the muttering of one of those transient thunder showers."

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 Sense and Sensibilities
Grammardog Guide to Sense and Sensibilities

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2007-02

Total Pages: 57

ISBN-13: 1608570525

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes: "as dull as two cats" "Hope had already entered . . ." ". . . every word was . . . a dagger in my heart," "a thousand disappointments and delays." Sensory imagery includes: "His footsteps were heard along the gravel path." "She took them all most affectionately by the hand." "Her eyes were red and swollen." ". . . he was forever forming parties to eat cold ham and chicken . . ."