Grammardog Guide to The Scarlet Letter

Grammardog Guide to The Scarlet Letter
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2003-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1608570312

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 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 The Sea Wolf

Grammardog Guide to The Sea Wolf
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2009-01-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1608571807

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 Comedy of Errors

Grammardog Guide to The Comedy of Errors
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2006-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1608570606

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this hilarious Shakespearean farce. All sentences are from the play. Wordplay, puns and jokes are plentiful ("Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine." "Thou drone, thou snail, thou slug, thou sot."). Allusions in this comedy are as mixed up as the plot about two sets of twins separated at birth (the fates, Circe, sorcerers, Father Time, fairy land, goblins, witches, mermaids, Adam, Noah and the prodigal son).

Grammardog Guide to The Call of the Wild

Grammardog Guide to The Call of the Wild
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2004-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1608570169

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this adventure story. All sentences are from the novel. The main character is a dog which makes for interesting sentences that describe human behavior and the snowy Yukon wilderness from a dog's point of view. Allusions reflect the conflict in the story between civilized dog versus uncivilized dog and laws of civilization versus primordial instinct and lawlessness.

Grammardog Guide to The Prince and the Pauper

Grammardog Guide to The Prince and the Pauper
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2005-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1608570290

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 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 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Grammardog Guide to The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2006-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1608570231

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 Picture of Dorian Gray

Grammardog Guide to The Picture of Dorian Gray
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2006-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1608570096

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

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."