Grammardog Guide To Self Reliance
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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.").
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").
Author | : Mary Jane McKinney |
Publisher | : Grammardog LLC |
Total Pages | : 55 |
Release | : 2003-08 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1608570215 |
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.
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."
Author | : Mary Jane McKinney |
Publisher | : Grammardog LLC |
Total Pages | : 55 |
Release | : 2004-04 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1608570355 |
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language and allusions are characteristic of Naturalism: "On the sled in a box lay a third man whose toil was over -- a man whom the Wild had conquered and beaten down until he would never move nor struggle again." "So there was no damming up the tide of life that was rising within him." "The night yawned about him." "some strange freak of Chance," "ruled over by Chance, merciless, planless, endless," "Fortune seemed to favor him."
Author | : Mary Jane McKinney |
Publisher | : Grammardog LLC |
Total Pages | : 57 |
Release | : 2006-06 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1608570541 |
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language is characteristic of Realism ("The coins he earned afterwards seemed as irrelevant as stones brought to complete a house suddenly buried by an earthquake." "He seemed to weave like the spider from pure impulse without reflection." "The thoughts were stranger to him now like old friendships impossible to revive." "The gold had asked that he should sit weaving longer and longer, deafened and blinded more and more to all things except the monotony of his loom . . .").
Author | : Mary Jane McKinney |
Publisher | : Grammardog LLC |
Total Pages | : 55 |
Release | : 2003-08 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1608570460 |
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language is characteristic of Romanticism ("her soul sat on her lips," "Till morning dawned I tossed on a buoyant but unquiet sea where billows of trouble rolled under surges of joy."). Allusions include references to history, mythology, religion, literature and folklore (Medusa, Guy Fawkes, Sphynx, Macbeth, Paul and Silas, elves, Ariel, Apollo, Eve, mermaid, Eden).
Author | : Mary Jane McKinney |
Publisher | : Grammardog LLC |
Total Pages | : 55 |
Release | : 2008-11 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1608570002 |
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this psychological novella. All sentences are from the novella. Figurative language echoes the theme of American versus European standards of social behavior ("that mysterious land of dollars" versus "fine spun gallantry"). The friction between cultures and social classes is developed through religious allusions and references to illness and disease (Calvinism, Christian martyrs, malaria, dyspepsia, headache).
Author | : Mary Jane McKinney |
Publisher | : Grammardog LLC |
Total Pages | : 55 |
Release | : 2003-08 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1608570584 |
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language and allusions are characteristic of Romanticism: "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same, and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning or frost from fire." "It had got dusk, and the moon looked over the high wall of the court." "He's a bird of bad omen." Allusions: ghost, witches, imps, fairies, vampires, goblin.
Author | : Mary Jane McKinney |
Publisher | : Grammardog LLC |
Total Pages | : 55 |
Release | : 2007-09-15 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1608570819 |
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this satiric novel. All sentences are from the novel. Sentences satirize government, laws and moral virtues (Reward and punishment are "the two hinges upon which all government turns." "Ingratitude is among them a capital crime." "It is the maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again." "The question to be debated was whether the yahoos should be exterminated from the face of the earth.").