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
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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 Tempest

Grammardog Guide to The Tempest
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2005-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 160857072X
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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this Shakespearean comedy. All sentences are from the play. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("O, brave new world that has such people in it." "What's past is prologue." "We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep." "Full fathom five thy father lies." "Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows." "Good wombs have borne bad sons.").

Grammardog Guide to Crane Short Stories

Grammardog Guide to Crane Short Stories
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2005-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1608570193
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The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, The Open Boat, The Veteran, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, The Blue Hotel.Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for these short stories. All sentences are from the stories. Crane's skill as a poet shines in these tales of the Old West, American Civil War, and 19th century New York City. Poetic devices include assonance ("vast flats of green grass"), consonance ("struck him in the back of the neck"), alliteration ("he bent to bail out the boat"), rhyme ("free sea," "seen the sheen") and repetition ("There was no offer of fight - no offer of fight").

Grammardog Guide to Jude the Obscure

Grammardog Guide to Jude the Obscure
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2008-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1608570037
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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).

Grammardog Guide to Twain Short Stories

Grammardog Guide to Twain Short Stories
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2005-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1608570339
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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.

Grammardog Guide to A Connecticut Yankee

Grammardog Guide to A Connecticut Yankee
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2005-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1608570185
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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this satiric novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language shows off Twain's skill at metaphor ("I was mere dirt," a nation of worms," "wide seas of memory," "he was but an extinct volcano"). Allusions include famous literary and historical adventures (Robinson Crusoe, Ivanhoe, Chaucer, Columbus, Northwest Passage).

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
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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 Poe Short Stories

Grammardog Guide to Poe Short Stories
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2005-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1608570282
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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."

Grammardog Guide to Song of Myself

Grammardog Guide to Song of Myself
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2008-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1608570010
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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this poem. All sentences are from the poem. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("I stop somewhere waiting for you." "I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake." "I sound my barbaric YAWP over the roofs of the world." "All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses and to die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier.").

Grammardog Guide to London Short Stories

Grammardog Guide to London Short Stories
Author: Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher: Grammardog LLC
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2006-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1608570258
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All Gold Canyon, The Mexican, The Story of Jees Uck, The White Silence, To Build a Fire.Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for these short stories. All sentences are from the stories. London's literary style and themes are examples of Naturalism. Figurative language includes: "the trembling lips of nature," "The White Silence seemed to sneer," "the stars that leaped and danced," "light laughed and life invited," "the leaves, wise with experience," "the stream once more drowsed and whispered," "for generations destiny had had this one end in view."