Grammardog Guide to Macbeth

Grammardog Guide to Macbeth
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Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Total Pages : 55
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ISBN-10 : 9781608570645
ISBN-13 : 1608570649
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Grammardog Guide to Macbeth by : Mary Jane McKinney

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.").

Grammardog Guide to The Awakening

Grammardog Guide to The Awakening
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Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Total Pages : 55
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ISBN-10 : 9781608570126
ISBN-13 : 1608570126
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis Grammardog Guide to The Awakening by : Mary Jane McKinney

Grammardog 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 Moby Dick

Grammardog Guide to Moby Dick
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Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Total Pages : 55
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ISBN-10 : 9781608570263
ISBN-13 : 1608570266
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Grammardog Guide to Moby Dick by : Mary Jane McKinney

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes: "a whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard," "silent islands of men and women," "The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jeweled velvets," "He lived in the world as the last of the Grisly Bears lived in settled Missouri," "the chick that's in him pecks the shell," "in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti."

Grammardog Guide to Oliver Twist

Grammardog Guide to Oliver Twist
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Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Total Pages : 55
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ISBN-10 : 9781608570508
ISBN-13 : 1608570509
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis Grammardog Guide to Oliver Twist by : Mary Jane McKinney

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes: "The smallest of all possible kettles was singing a small song." "I have made a coffin of my heart and sealed it up." "There is no chord in your heart that I can touch." "Providence must sleep." Sensory imagery includes: "the key grated in the lock," "garden flowers perfumed the air," "his eyes were bloodshot," "a slice of bread and butter," "a passionate kiss upon her chaste nose."

Grammardog Guide to Poe Short Stories

Grammardog Guide to Poe Short Stories
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Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Total Pages : 55
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ISBN-10 : 9781608570287
ISBN-13 : 1608570282
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis Grammardog Guide to Poe Short Stories by : Mary Jane McKinney

The Fall of the House of Usher, The Masque of the Red Death, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado. Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for these short stories. All sentences are from the stories. Figurative language includes: "eye-like windows," "buzz," "hum," "hissed," "he, he, he," "like a thief in the night." Sensory imagery includes: "I placed my hand upon his shoulder." "The windows were long, narrow and pointed." "a light step on an adjoining staircase," "the odors of all flowers," "the voice of the clock," "very smooth, slimy and cold," "a low moaning cry," "a succession of loud and shrill screams."

Grammardog Guide to The Scarlet Letter

Grammardog Guide to The Scarlet Letter
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Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Total Pages : 55
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ISBN-10 : 9781608570317
ISBN-13 : 1608570312
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Grammardog Guide to The Scarlet Letter by : Mary Jane McKinney

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 The Innocents Abroad

Grammardog Guide to The Innocents Abroad
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Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Total Pages : 55
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ISBN-10 : 9781608570225
ISBN-13 : 1608570223
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis Grammardog Guide to The Innocents Abroad by : Mary Jane McKinney

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 Crane Short Stories

Grammardog Guide to Crane Short Stories
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Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Total Pages : 56
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ISBN-10 : 9781608570195
ISBN-13 : 1608570193
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Grammardog Guide to Crane Short Stories by : Mary Jane McKinney

The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, The Open Boat, The Veteran, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, The Blue Hotel.Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for these short stories. All sentences are from the stories. Crane's skill as a poet shines in these tales of the Old West, American Civil War, and 19th century New York City. Poetic devices include assonance ("vast flats of green grass"), consonance ("struck him in the back of the neck"), alliteration ("he bent to bail out the boat"), rhyme ("free sea," "seen the sheen") and repetition ("There was no offer of fight - no offer of fight").

Grammardog Guide to Up From Slavery

Grammardog Guide to Up From Slavery
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Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Total Pages : 55
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ISBN-10 : 9781608570058
ISBN-13 : 1608570053
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis Grammardog Guide to Up From Slavery by : Mary Jane McKinney

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 Jude the Obscure

Grammardog Guide to Jude the Obscure
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Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Total Pages : 55
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ISBN-10 : 9781608570034
ISBN-13 : 1608570037
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis Grammardog Guide to Jude the Obscure by : Mary Jane McKinney

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).