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 Hard Times

Grammardog Guide to Hard Times
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2006-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1608570436

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes "the midnight of his mind," "grinding at the mill of knowledge," and "like a sad sea." Allusions pertain to mythology (Centaur, Cupid, Venus, Furies), religion (Adam, Good Samaritan, serpent in the garden, Judas Iscariot), folklore (fairies, genies, dragon) and literature (Shakespeare, Goldsmith, Robinson Crusoe, "Alas poor Yorick!").

Grammardog Guide to Walden

Grammardog Guide to Walden
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2007-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1608570843

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this essay. All sentences are from the essay. Quizzes feature famous quotes: "Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in." "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." "When a man dies he kicks the dust." "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer." "I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life." "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately." "In the long run men hit only what they aim at." "Simplify, simplify." "It is never too late to give up prejudices." "Our life is frittered away by detail."

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 Billy Budd

Grammardog Guide to Billy Budd
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total 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).

Grammardog Guide to Othello

Grammardog Guide to Othello
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2005-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1608570681

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this Shakespearean tragedy. All sentences are from the play. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("O, beware my lord of jealousy. It is the green-ey'd monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on." "Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit and lost without deserving." "How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?" "But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at." "I kissed thee ere I killed thee." "Then must you speak of one that loved not wisely but too well." "She was false as water." "Give me ocular proof." "And when I love thee not, chaos is come again." "We cannot all be masters.").

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 Evangeline

Grammardog Guide to Evangeline
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total 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 The Outcasts of Poker Flat

Grammardog Guide to The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2008-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 160857007X

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 Heny V

Grammardog Guide to Heny V
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2006-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1608570746

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this Shakespearean play classified as a history. All sentences are from the play. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more." "The game's afoot." "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers . . ." ". . . giddy Fortune's furious fickle wheel . . ." "O for a Muse of fire . . ."). Allusions include famous fictional and historical generals (Arthur, Agamemnon, Caesar, Pompey, Alexander).