Grammardog Guide to King Lear

Grammardog Guide to King Lear
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2005-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1608570630

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this Shakespearean tragedy. All sentences are from the play. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("nothing will come of nothing," "This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen," "Blow winds, and crack your cheeks," "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child," "I am a man more sinned against than sinning," "Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say," "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools," "The art of our necessities is strange and can make vile things precious").

Grammardog Guide to Much Ado About Nothing

Grammardog Guide to Much Ado About Nothing
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2006-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1608570673

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this Shakespearean comedy. All sentences are from the play. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("What, my dear Lady Disdain! Are you yet living?" "For man is a giddy thing." "I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me." "When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married." "There was a star danced and under that was I born." "What's the matter that you have such a February face. . .'").

Grammardog Guide to Oliver Twist

Grammardog Guide to Oliver Twist
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2006-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1608570509

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes: "The smallest of all possible kettles was singing a small song." "I have made a coffin of my heart and sealed it up." "There is no chord in your heart that I can touch." "Providence must sleep." Sensory imagery includes: "the key grated in the lock," "garden flowers perfumed the air," "his eyes were bloodshot," "a slice of bread and butter," "a passionate kiss upon her chaste nose."

Grammardog Guide to The Awakening

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

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 Moby Dick

Grammardog Guide to Moby Dick
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2003-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1608570266

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes: "a whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard," "silent islands of men and women," "The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jeweled velvets," "He lived in the world as the last of the Grisly Bears lived in settled Missouri," "the chick that's in him pecks the shell," "in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti."

Grammardog Guide to Lord Jim

Grammardog Guide to Lord Jim
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2006-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1608570479

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language features onomatopoeia ("tap tap," "crunch crunch," "swish swish," "bang," "thump"), and language characteristic of Naturalism ("There was not the thickness of a sheet of paper between the right and wrong of this affair." "The chilly Antarctic can keep a secret." ". . . sniffing the intoxicating breath of that wasted opportunity").

Grammardog Guide to Twelfth Night

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

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 Self-Reliance

Grammardog Guide to Self-Reliance
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total 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 Julius Caesar

Grammardog Guide to Julius Caesar
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2005-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1608570622

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this Shakespearean tragedy. All sentences are from the play. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("Beware the Ides of March," "Et tu, Brute?" "Friends, Romans, countrymen lend me your ears," "let slip the dogs of war," "I am constant as the northern star," "It was Greek to me," "Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look," "If you have tears, prepare to shed them now," "This was the most unkindest cut of all," "the fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves that we are underlings").

Grammardog Guide to Great Expectations

Grammardog Guide to Great Expectations
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2003-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1608570428

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this classic novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language is abundant ("a haystack of buttered toast," "the closet whispered, the fireplace sighed," "a post office of a mouth," "so very blank and high was the dead wall of her face"). Allusions are drawn from mythology (Hercules, myrmidons, Telemachus, Cupid, Argus), religion (Noah's ark, Cain, Lord's Prayer) and literature (Hamlet, Coriolanus, Richard III, Anthony's oration in Julius Caesar, Timon of Athens).