The Grammardog Guide to the Three Strangers
The Grammardog Guide to the Three Strangers

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2009-08

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 1608571866

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this short story. All sentences are from the story. Figurative language includes: "The garden path stretched downward from his feet, gleaming like the track of a snail." "Beyond all this winked a few bleared lamplights . . ." "the snare set by Nature." Sensory imagery includes: "the latch clicked," "he wore a suit of cinder-gray," "patter of the rain," "shaking hands heartily at the door," "brewed of the purest first-year maiden honey."

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 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 The Secret Garden
Grammardog Guide to The Secret Garden

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570886

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes: ". . . the wide bleak moor was a wide expanse of black ocean . . ." ". . . the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain . . ." "The bulbs in the secret garden must have been much astonished." Sensory imagery includes: "Her hair was yellow and her face was yellow." "She . . . rubbed the end of her nose with the back of her hand . . ." "soft rustling flight of wings," "the fresh scent of the damp earth," "Mary drank some tea and ate a little toast and some marmalade."

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 Rocking-Horse Winner
Grammardog Guide to The Rocking-Horse Winner

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2008-12

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570029

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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 Mayor of Casterbridge
Grammardog Guide to The Mayor of Casterbridge

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2005-11

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570495

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes examples of Naturalism ("his lie had been the last desperate throw of a gamester," "you are the door through which wrong has come to me," "Time, the magician, had wrought much here"). Allusions include history, mythology, religion, literature and Naturalism (Hadrian, Constantine, Calpurnia, Faust, Romeo, Robinson Crusoe, Ovid, Aphrodite, Achilles, Jacob, Cain, Saul, sheer luck, malignant star, the hands of Time).

Grammardog Guide to The Comedy of Errors
Grammardog Guide to The Comedy of Errors

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2006-08

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 1608570606

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this hilarious Shakespearean farce. All sentences are from the play. Wordplay, puns and jokes are plentiful ("Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine." "Thou drone, thou snail, thou slug, thou sot."). Allusions in this comedy are as mixed up as the plot about two sets of twins separated at birth (the fates, Circe, sorcerers, Father Time, fairy land, goblins, witches, mermaids, Adam, Noah and the prodigal son).

Grammardog Guide to the Merchant of Venice
Grammardog Guide to the Merchant of Venice

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2005-02

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 1608570657

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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 ("Hath not a Jew eyes?" "If you prick us do we not bleed?" "If you tickle us do we not laugh?" "The quality of mercy is not strain'd. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath." "a pound of flesh").

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."