Grammardog Guide to The Secret Garden

Grammardog Guide to The Secret Garden
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2007
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1608570886

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 Guide to Nature

Grammardog Guide to Nature
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total 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 Conrad Short Stories

Grammardog Guide to Conrad Short Stories
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2005-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 160857038X

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 Guide to The House of the Seven Gables

Grammardog Guide to The House of the Seven Gables
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2008-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1608570045

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 Guide to Frankenstein

Grammardog Guide to Frankenstein
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total 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 Huckleberry Finn

Grammardog Guide to Huckleberry Finn
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.

Grammardog Guide to The Turn of the Screw

Grammardog Guide to The Turn of the Screw
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2009-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1608571823

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."

Grammardog Guide to The Rocking-Horse Winner

Grammardog Guide to The Rocking-Horse Winner
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2008-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1608570029

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."

Grammardog Guide to Jane Eyre

Grammardog Guide to Jane Eyre
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).

Insta Grammar Green

Insta Grammar Green
Author: I. Schampaert
Publisher: Lannoo Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-02
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9789401440554

The Insta Grammar series explores the best of the best in amateur photography, focussing on the immensely popular social media site, Instagram. After Cats, City and Nordic, Green is the fourth and latest title in this series, which closely follows online trends. The reason is obvious: green is the new black. Be inspired by photos of plants, trees and everything green, and enjoy the creativity of the selected photographers. Also available in the series: Insta Grammar: Cats ISBN 9789401436953 Insta Grammar: City ISBN 9789401436915 Insta Grammar: Nordic ISBN 9789401436946 AUTHOR: Irene Schampaert is a graphic designer and blogger. She writes about design, colours, patterns, deco, typography and photography.