Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
ISBN: 1608570746
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 55
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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).
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
ISBN: 1608571882
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
ISBN: 1608570274
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 55
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The Gift of the Magi, The Skylight Room, The Cop and the Anthem, The Ransom of Red Chief, Hearts and Hands.Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for these short stories. All sentences are from the stories. Figurative language includes: "sea of asphalt," "shook him until his freckles rattled," "skyrocket of a kid," "butterfly days," "like a welter-weight cinnamon bear." Alliteration includes: "Mr. Hoover who was forty-five, fat, flush and foolish," "life is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles, and sniffles predominating."
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
ISBN: 1608570797
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 55
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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this Shakespearean play classified as a history. All sentences are from the play. Figurative language is as colorful as the character Falstaff ("as hot as molten lead," "It rained down fortune," "pluck drowned honor by the locks"). Allusions include mythology, religion and folklore (Phoebus, Diana, Hercules, Mars, Saint Nicholas, Adam, Merlin, Maid Marian, fairy, griffin, dragon).
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
ISBN: 1608570061
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 55
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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this satiric farce. All sentences are from the play. Wordplay, puns and wit are plentiful ("she is a monster without being a myth," "all good looks are a snare," "the shallow mask of manners," "If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life," "London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have of their own free choice remained thirty-five for years."). Allusions and symbols satirize Victorian attitudes on gender equality, moral virtue, social class, religion and marriage.
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
ISBN: 1608570118
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 55
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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this dystopic tale. All sentences are from the novel. Quizzes use short sentences characteristic of the futuristic genre. Figurative language contrasts nature with the sterile world of dystopia ("blue as morning," "puddle of light," "the trees have swallowed the ruins"). Allusions reflect the conflict between government and technology and mythology and archetypal symbols that stir the emotions.
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
ISBN: 1608570843
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 55
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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."
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
ISBN: 1608570835
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 55
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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.
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
ISBN: 1608570762
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 55
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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes "harness of routine," "the swamp of awkwardness," "the long valley of her life," "the cobweb of pre-matrimonial acquaintanceship," "feelings had gathered to an avalanche," "Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand").
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
ISBN: 1608570266
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 55
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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."
