Grammardog Guide to The Awakening

Grammardog Guide to The Awakening
Title Grammardog Guide to The Awakening PDF eBook
Author Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher Grammardog LLC
Pages 55
Release 2003-08
Genre Education
ISBN 1608570126

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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 The Hound of the Baskervilles

Grammardog Guide to The Hound of the Baskervilles
Title Grammardog Guide to The Hound of the Baskervilles PDF eBook
Author Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher Grammardog LLC
Pages 55
Release 2004-06
Genre Education
ISBN 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 Importance of Being Earnest

Grammardog Guide to The Importance of Being Earnest
Title Grammardog Guide to The Importance of Being Earnest PDF eBook
Author Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher Grammardog LLC
Pages 55
Release 2008-09
Genre Education
ISBN 1608570061

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this satiric farce. All sentences are from the play. Wordplay, puns and wit are plentiful ("she is a monster without being a myth," "all good looks are a snare," "the shallow mask of manners," "If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life," "London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have of their own free choice remained thirty-five for years."). Allusions and symbols satirize Victorian attitudes on gender equality, moral virtue, social class, religion and marriage.

Grammardog Guide to The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Grammardog Guide to The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Title Grammardog Guide to The Legend of Sleepy Hollow PDF eBook
Author Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher Grammardog LLC
Pages 55
Release 2006-10
Genre Education
ISBN 1608570231

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this famous short story. All sentences are from the story. Alliteration includes ("Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow," "women's hearts were wooed and won," "ready for either a fight or a frolic," "suitable for such a steed"). Allusions include references to mythology, religion, chivalry and folklore (Sabbath, psalm, ghosts, goblins, omens, magic, castle keep, knight-errant, Hercules, Achilles, Mercury).

Grammardog Guide to The Outcasts of Poker Flat

Grammardog Guide to The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Title Grammardog Guide to The Outcasts of Poker Flat PDF eBook
Author Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher Grammardog LLC
Pages 55
Release 2008-05
Genre Education
ISBN 160857007X

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this short story. All sentences are from the story. Figurative language includes: "life was at best an uncertain game," "the accordion rose and fell in fitful spasms and long-drawn gasps." Sensory imagery includes: "dry, cold, bracing air," "a giggle," "a kiss," "freckled face," "stroked his mustaches," "blue eyes," "whiskey," "the reedy notes of the accordion," "long embrace," "voices," "footsteps."

Grammardog Guide to The Turn of the Screw

Grammardog Guide to The Turn of the Screw
Title Grammardog Guide to The Turn of the Screw PDF eBook
Author Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher Grammardog LLC
Pages 56
Release 2009-02
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1608571823

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes: "She herself had seen nothing, not the shadow of a shadow" "the inner chamber of my dread" "the grey dawn admonished us to separate" "We lived in a cloud of music and affection and success and private theatricals" "The place, with its grey sky and withered garlands, its bared spaces and scattered dead leaves, was like a theater after the performance - all strewn with crumpled playbills."

Grammardog Guide to the Taming of the Shrew

Grammardog Guide to the Taming of the Shrew
Title Grammardog Guide to the Taming of the Shrew PDF eBook
Author Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher Grammardog LLC
Pages 55
Release 2006-05
Genre Education
ISBN 1608570711

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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 ("If I be waspish, best beware my sting." "Where is the life that late I led?" "We will have rings and things and fine array." "There's small choice in rotten apples." "He that runs fastest gets the ring." "Being mad herself, she's madly mated." "First, kiss me Kate."). Onomatopoeia includes: "smack," "slish," "slash."