Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
ISBN: 1608570878
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 55
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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this iconic poem. All sentences are from the poem. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink." "as idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean" "Alone, alone, all, all alone, alone on a wide, wide sea; and never a saint took pity on my soul in agony." "And a thousand, thousand slimy things lived on and so did I." "Instead of the cross, the Albatross about my neck was hung." "He prayeth well who loveth well both man and bird and beast.").
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
ISBN: 1608570789
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 55
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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this short story. All sentences are from the story. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use." "But what courage can withstand the ever-during and all-besetting terrors of a woman's tongue?") Figurative language includes: "like a colt at his mother's heels," "the yoke of matrimony," "the muttering of one of those transient thunder showers."
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
ISBN: 1608570037
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 is characteristic of Naturalism ("the oars smacking with a loud kiss on the face of the stream," "Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?"). Allusions include references to mythology, religion, literature, Naturalism and fatalism, and folklore and superstition (Iliad, Venus Apollo, Robinson Crusoe, Voltaire, fate, Eve, Nemesis, fairy, sprite, Apostle's Creed).
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
ISBN: 1608570134
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 55
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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this story set in the early days of Wall Street. All sentences are from the short story. Figurative language describes Bartleby as "a bit of wreckage in the mid-Atlantic" and "a millstone" to his boss. Allusions mention tycoon John Jacob Astor and geographical locations such as Broadway, Jersey City and Hoboken.
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
ISBN: 1608570312
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 55
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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."
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
ISBN: 1608570525
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 57
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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes: "as dull as two cats" "Hope had already entered . . ." ". . . every word was . . . a dagger in my heart," "a thousand disappointments and delays." Sensory imagery includes: "His footsteps were heard along the gravel path." "She took them all most affectionately by the hand." "Her eyes were red and swollen." ". . . he was forever forming parties to eat cold ham and chicken . . ."
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
ISBN: 1608570517
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: "Pride has often been his best friend." "Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her." "Anybody might have heard us ten miles off." "But no such recollection befriended her." "A thousand things may arise in six months." Alliteration includes: "directed all his anger against another," "Bingley had never met with pleasanter people or prettier girls in his life."
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
ISBN: 1608570282
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 55
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The Fall of the House of Usher, The Masque of the Red Death, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado. Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for these short stories. All sentences are from the stories. Figurative language includes: "eye-like windows," "buzz," "hum," "hissed," "he, he, he," "like a thief in the night." Sensory imagery includes: "I placed my hand upon his shoulder." "The windows were long, narrow and pointed." "a light step on an adjoining staircase," "the odors of all flowers," "the voice of the clock," "very smooth, slimy and cold," "a low moaning cry," "a succession of loud and shrill screams."
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
ISBN: 1608570371
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 55
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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this English classic. All sentences are from the novel. Quizzes are chock full of familiar quotes ("Dead as a door-nail, as good as gold, light as a feather"). Excellent alliteration ("No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him), and a fun mix of allusions that include ghosts, goblins, Hamlet, Cain and Abel, Ali Baba and Robinson Crusoe.
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
ISBN: 1608570339
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 55
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The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, Luck, Is He Living Or Is He Dead?, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, The Mysterious Stranger. Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for these short stories. All sentences are from the stories. Figurative language includes: "the next minute you'd see that frog whirling in the air like a doughnut" "he traveled like a duke" "a tornado of applause" "as solid as a gob of mud" "from the top of the precipice frowned a vast castle" "man is a museum of diseases" "I have examined his billion of possible careers." Allusions include: Frankenstein, Caesar, Napoleon, Socrates, Daniel Webster, Andrew Jackson.
