Grammardog Guide to As You Like It

Grammardog Guide to As You Like It
Title Grammardog Guide to As You Like It PDF eBook
Author Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher Grammardog LLC
Pages 55
Release 2005-04
Genre Education
ISBN 1608570592

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this Shakespearean comedy. All sentences are from the play. Some sentences are familiar quotes ("All the world's a stage" and "motley fool"). Figurative language centers on love, marriage and courtship. Advice to lovers abounds ("A man falls in love in April and weds in December"). Allusions are as mixed-up as the plot ("Robin Hood, Cleopatra, Judas, Pythagoras, Diana and Hercules").

Grammardog Guide to Little Women

Grammardog Guide to Little Women
Title Grammardog Guide to Little Women PDF eBook
Author Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher Grammardog LLC
Pages 55
Release 2007
Genre Education
ISBN 160857086X

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes: "Fortune suddenly smiled on Jo," "Jo rashly took a plunge into the frothy sea of sensational literature," "like a fly in the web of a very strict spider." Allusions include references to mythology, religion, literature and folklore (Orpheus, Hercules, Cyclops, Pilgrim's Progress, Cinderella, Keats, Dickens, Shakespeare, elves, evil spell, lucky star, ghost, fairy, Ten Commandments, Madonna and child, Eve, Noah's ark).

Grammardog Guide to Uncle Tom's Cabin

Grammardog Guide to Uncle Tom's Cabin
Title Grammardog Guide to Uncle Tom's Cabin PDF eBook
Author Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher Grammardog LLC
Pages 55
Release 2006-11
Genre Education
ISBN 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 Wuthering Heights

Grammardog Guide to Wuthering Heights
Title Grammardog Guide to Wuthering Heights PDF eBook
Author Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher Grammardog LLC
Pages 55
Release 2003-08
Genre Education
ISBN 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 Jude the Obscure

Grammardog Guide to Jude the Obscure
Title Grammardog Guide to Jude the Obscure PDF eBook
Author Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher Grammardog LLC
Pages 55
Release 2008-04
Genre Education
ISBN 1608570037

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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).

Grammardog Guide to Twelfth Night

Grammardog Guide to Twelfth Night
Title Grammardog Guide to Twelfth Night PDF eBook
Author Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher Grammardog LLC
Pages 55
Release 2006-03
Genre Education
ISBN 1608570738

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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 ("Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them." "If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it." "Better a witty fool than a foolish wit." "I have unclasped to thee the book even of my secret soul." "She sat like Patience on a monument, smiling at grief.").

Grammardog Guide to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Grammardog Guide to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Title Grammardog Guide to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland PDF eBook
Author Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher Grammardog LLC
Pages 55
Release 2006-02
Genre Education
ISBN 1608570363

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this classic. All sentences are from the novel. The language is full of fun and familiar characters like the White Rabbit, Mad Hatter and Cheshire Cat. Figurative language includes lots of hyperbole (All persons more than a mile high to leave the court!) and simile combined with rhyme (Up above the world you fly, like a tea tray in the sky). Sophisticated allusions pertain to mathematics, time, law and order and toys and games.