Grammardog Guide to David Copperfield
Grammardog Guide to David Copperfield

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2008-02

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570398

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this classic novel. All sentences are from the novel. The coming of age story is rich in sensory imagery ("wind howling," "broiled mutton and beer," "a clammy hand," "fragrance of lemon peel and sugar," "eager black eyes"). Allusions pertain to religion, literature and Greek mythology (Lazarus, Noah, Job, Cain, Samson, Hamlet, Macbeth, Robinson Crusoe, Titans, Bacchanalia, Phoebus).

Grammardog Guide to Great Expectations
Grammardog Guide to Great Expectations

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2003-08

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 1608570428

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this classic novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language is abundant ("a haystack of buttered toast," "the closet whispered, the fireplace sighed," "a post office of a mouth," "so very blank and high was the dead wall of her face"). Allusions are drawn from mythology (Hercules, myrmidons, Telemachus, Cupid, Argus), religion (Noah's ark, Cain, Lord's Prayer) and literature (Hamlet, Coriolanus, Richard III, Anthony's oration in Julius Caesar, Timon of Athens).

Grammardog Guide to The Tempest
Grammardog Guide to The Tempest

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2005-06

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 160857072X

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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 ("O, brave new world that has such people in it." "What's past is prologue." "We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep." "Full fathom five thy father lies." "Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows." "Good wombs have borne bad sons.").

Grammardog Guide to Daisy Miller
Grammardog Guide to Daisy Miller

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2008-11

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570002

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this psychological novella. All sentences are from the novella. Figurative language echoes the theme of American versus European standards of social behavior ("that mysterious land of dollars" versus "fine spun gallantry"). The friction between cultures and social classes is developed through religious allusions and references to illness and disease (Calvinism, Christian martyrs, malaria, dyspepsia, headache).

Grammardog Guide to Lord Jim
Grammardog Guide to Lord Jim

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2006-07

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570479

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language features onomatopoeia ("tap tap," "crunch crunch," "swish swish," "bang," "thump"), and language characteristic of Naturalism ("There was not the thickness of a sheet of paper between the right and wrong of this affair." "The chilly Antarctic can keep a secret." ". . . sniffing the intoxicating breath of that wasted opportunity").

Grammardog Guide to Ethan Frome
Grammardog Guide to Ethan Frome

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2008-06

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570894

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language describes a harsh winter in Massachusetts ("the storms of February had pitched their white tents about the devoted village," "Far off above us a square of light trembled through the screen of snow"). Allusions to constellations express the theme of hopes and dreams of life beyond the remote village (Orion, Pleiades, the Dipper, Sirius).

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 Gulliver's Travels
Grammardog Guide to Gulliver's Travels

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2007-09-15

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570819

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this satiric novel. All sentences are from the novel. Sentences satirize government, laws and moral virtues (Reward and punishment are "the two hinges upon which all government turns." "Ingratitude is among them a capital crime." "It is the maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again." "The question to be debated was whether the yahoos should be exterminated from the face of the earth.").

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 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").