Grammardog Guide to Self-Reliance
Title | Grammardog Guide to Self-Reliance PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Jane McKinney |
Publisher | Grammardog LLC |
Pages | 57 |
Release | 2007-06 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1608570827 |
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this essay. All sentences are from the essay. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("To be great is to be misunderstood." "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist." "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself." "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds . . ." "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; imitation is suicide." "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.").
Grammardog Guide to Anthem
Title | Grammardog Guide to Anthem PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Jane McKinney |
Publisher | Grammardog LLC |
Pages | 55 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1608570118 |
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this dystopic tale. All sentences are from the novel. Quizzes use short sentences characteristic of the futuristic genre. Figurative language contrasts nature with the sterile world of dystopia ("blue as morning," "puddle of light," "the trees have swallowed the ruins"). Allusions reflect the conflict between government and technology and mythology and archetypal symbols that stir the emotions.
Grammardog Guide to Nature
Title | Grammardog Guide to Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Jane McKinney |
Publisher | Grammardog LLC |
Pages | 55 |
Release | 2007-07 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1608570835 |
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.
Grammardog Guide to Frankenstein
Title | Grammardog Guide to Frankenstein PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Jane McKinney |
Publisher | Grammardog LLC |
Pages | 55 |
Release | 2003-08 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 160857041X |
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 Guide to Evangeline
Title | Grammardog Guide to Evangeline PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Jane McKinney |
Publisher | Grammardog LLC |
Pages | 55 |
Release | 2008-08 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1608570088 |
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this epic poem. All sentences are from the poem. Elements of Romanticism include the personification of nature ("sea fogs pitched their tents," "the great sun looked with an eye of love," "the restless heart of the ocean," "the whispering rain") and allusions to religion, folklore superstitions and mythology (Mary, Jacob Abraham, Elijah, Eden, four leaved clover, horseshoes, mystic mistletoe, Titan, Olympus, Dryad).
Grammardog Guide to Hamlet
Title | Grammardog Guide to Hamlet PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Jane McKinney |
Publisher | Grammardog LLC |
Pages | 55 |
Release | 2005-04 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1608570614 |
Grammardog 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 Billy Budd
Title | Grammardog Guide to Billy Budd PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Jane McKinney |
Publisher | Grammardog LLC |
Pages | 55 |
Release | 2003-08 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1608570150 |
Grammardog 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).