Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes: ". . . the wide bleak moor was a wide expanse of black ocean . . ." ". . . the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain . . ." "The bulbs in the secret garden must have been much astonished." Sensory imagery includes: "Her hair was yellow and her face was yellow." "She . . . rubbed the end of her nose with the back of her hand . . ." "soft rustling flight of wings," "the fresh scent of the damp earth," "Mary drank some tea and ate a little toast and some marmalade."

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this essay. All sentences are from the essay. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("We aim above the mark to hit the mark." "Nature cannot be surprised in undress." "Great causes are never tried on their merits." "How inconceivably remote is man." "I can no longer live without elegance." Allusions are drawn from history, religion and mythology: Versailles, Gabriel, Luther, Eden, angels of darkness, Apollo, Diana, Pan, Proteus, Oedipus.

The Lagoon, Youth, Amy Foster, The Secret Sharer, An Outpost of Progress.Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for these short stories. All sentences are from the stories. In tales set in Asia, Africa, and Great Britain, Conrad excels at poetic devices including alliteration ("sleep on the soft sand in the shade"), assonance ("breeder of sheep and deals"), consonance ("green satin ribbon"), repetition ("had been in trouble, or was in trouble, or expected to be in trouble") and rhyme ("a bright light traveling in the night"). Allusions mix superstition with religion and Greek mythology (magicians, witchcraft, Allah, Lord's Prayer, Erebus and Nemesis).

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language establishes the mood of Gothic Romantic gloom (". . . the opaque puddle of obscurity . . ." "Poverty, treading closely at her heels for a lifetime . . . " ". . . the smile was sunshine under a thundercloud." "The vapor of the broiled fish arose like incense from the shrine of a barbarian." "The shadow creeps and creeps and is always looking over the shoulder of sunshine.").

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this Gothic novel. All sentences are from the novel. Elements of Romanticism include descriptions of the power of nature to revive the human spirit, the nobility of the common man, the joy of country life, and the conflict between science and the supernatural realm. Religious and literary allusions include Adam, Eve, Satan, Homer, Shakespeare, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," "Paradise Lost," King Arthur and Dante.

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this classic American novel. All sentences are from the novel. Language in this coming of age story features rhyme ("rumbling, grumbling, tumbling down the sky") and onomatopoeia (Lightning is "hwhack!" Thunder is "bum! bum! bumble-umble-umbum-bum-bum-bum!" A horse's gallop is "Plunkety-plunk, plunkety-plunk"). A quiz on humor terms identifies sentences containing hyperbole, colloquialism and malapropism.

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."