Grammardog Guide To The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow

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Grammardog Guide to The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781608570232

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Grammardog Guide to The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Mary Jane McKinney Pdf

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 Awakening

Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781608570126

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Grammardog Guide to The Awakening by Mary Jane McKinney Pdf

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 Scarlet Letter

Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781608570317

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Grammardog Guide to The Scarlet Letter by Mary Jane McKinney Pdf

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

Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781608570225

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Grammardog Guide to The Innocents Abroad by Mary Jane McKinney Pdf

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 The Sea Wolf

Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781608571802

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Grammardog Guide to The Sea Wolf by Mary Jane McKinney Pdf

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes: "A steamboat emerged trailing fog wreaths on either side like seaweed on the snout of Leviathan." "He accepted destiny, marched hand in hand with it." "Life . . . was a cipher in the arithmetic of commerce." Sensory imagery includes: "the mournful tolling of a bell," "sour-smelling garments," "two rows of tobacco-discolored teeth," "fresh-baked bread," "her hair was brushing my face."

Grammardog Guide to The Rocking-Horse Winner

Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781608570027

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Grammardog Guide to The Rocking-Horse Winner by Mary Jane McKinney Pdf

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this short story. All sentences are from the story. Figurative language includes: "She married for love, and the love turned to dust." "She felt the center of her heart go hard." "Bassett was serious as a church" "The house whispers." Alliteration includes: "His mother had sudden strange seizures." "There must be more money!" "Then suddenly she switched on the light and saw her son."

The Grammardog Guide to the Three Strangers

Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781608571864

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The Grammardog Guide to the Three Strangers by Mary Jane McKinney Pdf

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this short story. All sentences are from the story. Figurative language includes: "The garden path stretched downward from his feet, gleaming like the track of a snail." "Beyond all this winked a few bleared lamplights . . ." "the snare set by Nature." Sensory imagery includes: "the latch clicked," "he wore a suit of cinder-gray," "patter of the rain," "shaking hands heartily at the door," "brewed of the purest first-year maiden honey."

Grammardog Guide to The Mayor of Casterbridge

Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781608570492

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Grammardog Guide to The Mayor of Casterbridge by Mary Jane McKinney Pdf

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes examples of Naturalism ("his lie had been the last desperate throw of a gamester," "you are the door through which wrong has come to me," "Time, the magician, had wrought much here"). Allusions include history, mythology, religion, literature and Naturalism (Hadrian, Constantine, Calpurnia, Faust, Romeo, Robinson Crusoe, Ovid, Aphrodite, Achilles, Jacob, Cain, Saul, sheer luck, malignant star, the hands of Time).

Grammardog Guide to The Importance of Being Earnest

Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781608570065

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Grammardog Guide to The Importance of Being Earnest by Mary Jane McKinney Pdf

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 Prince and the Pauper

Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781608570294

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Grammardog Guide to The Prince and the Pauper by Mary Jane McKinney Pdf

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes: "the forest of legs," "Hunger is pride's master," "busy as ants," "He felt much as a man might who had danced blithely out to enjoy a rainbow and got struck by lightning." Alliteration includes: "The high hedge hid him," "He bathed his bleeding feet in the brook," "After hours of persistent pursuit and persecution, the little prince was at last deserted . . ."

Grammardog Guide to The Picture of Dorian Gray

Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781608570096

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Grammardog Guide to The Picture of Dorian Gray by Mary Jane McKinney Pdf

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes: "She is a peacock in everything but beauty." "He becomes an echo of someone else's music." "Time is jealous of you." "like a third-rate wedding cake." Allusions to mythology, religion and literature include: Juliet, Tartuffe, Caliban, Dante, Adonis, Artemis, Athena, Sphinxes, Narcissus, Eve, Roman Catholic, "Lead us not into temptation," "seven deadly sins."

Grammardog Guide to The Turn of the Screw

Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781608571857

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Grammardog Guide to The Turn of the Screw by Mary Jane McKinney Pdf

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this short story. All sentences are from the story. Figurative language includes: "long slumbering hospitality seemed to be easily awakened," "the sharp dry twigs caught and held her and scratched her like talons," "The old pine must have loved his new dependent." "the great world for the first time puts out a hand to her," "the murmur of the pine's green branches is in her ears," "there was the huge tree asleep yet in the paling moonlight."

Grammardog Guide to the Taming of the Shrew

Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781608570713

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Grammardog Guide to the Taming of the Shrew by Mary Jane McKinney Pdf

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."

Grammardog Guide to The Outcasts of Poker Flat

Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781608570072

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Grammardog Guide to The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Mary Jane McKinney Pdf

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 Hound of the Baskervilles

Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781608570454

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Grammardog Guide to The Hound of the Baskervilles by Mary Jane McKinney Pdf

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.").