The Grammardog Guide to The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Published: 2009-10
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 1608571882
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Grammardog Guide to Hamlet
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Published: 2005-04
Total Pages: 55
ISBN-13: 1608570614
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGrammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this Shakespearean tragedy. All sentences are from the play. Figurative language includes "the primrose path of dalliance," "Purpose is but the slave of memory," and "when sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions." Literary analysis passages feature Hamlet's "to be or not to be" soliloquy. Allusions include mythology (Olympus, Jove, Cyclops, Hercules), folklore (witchcraft, mermaid, fairy) and religion (Cain, Adam, Saint Patrick).
Grammardog Guide to Benito Cereno
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Published: 2003-08
Total Pages: 55
ISBN-13: 1608570142
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGrammardog 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").
Grammardog Guide to Julius Caesar
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Published: 2005-03
Total Pages: 55
ISBN-13: 1608570622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGrammardog 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 The Tempest
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Published: 2005-06
Total Pages: 55
ISBN-13: 160857072X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGrammardog 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 A Connecticut Yankee
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Published: 2005-09
Total Pages: 55
ISBN-13: 1608570185
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGrammardog 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 The Turn of the Screw
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Published: 2009-02-15
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 1608571858
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGrammardog 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 King Lear
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Published: 2005-03
Total Pages: 55
ISBN-13: 1608570630
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGrammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this Shakespearean tragedy. All sentences are from the play. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("nothing will come of nothing," "This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen," "Blow winds, and crack your cheeks," "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child," "I am a man more sinned against than sinning," "Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say," "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools," "The art of our necessities is strange and can make vile things precious").
Grammardog Guide to The Awakening
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Published: 2003-08
Total Pages: 55
ISBN-13: 1608570126
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGrammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this landmark feminist classic. All sentences are from the novel. Quizzes use language that describes the romantic settings of the Louisiana Gulf coast and New Orleans. Naturalism is reflected in figurative language and lush descriptions of "hot breath of the Southern night," "the voice of the sea is seductive," and "the touch of the sea is sensuous." Allusions blend Creole folklore, classical myths, Catholicism and classical music. Feminism is poetically expressed ("The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings").
Grammardog Guide to Billy Budd
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Published: 2003-08
Total Pages: 55
ISBN-13: 1608570150
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGrammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this sea tale. All sentences are from the novella. Figurative language compares the innocent Billy Budd to birds (goldfinch, migratory bird) and "a young horse fresh from the farm." Biblical allusions support the theme of difficult moral decisions (Adam, the serpent and the apple of knowledge, Abraham and Isaac, Jonah, Saul and David, and Joseph).
