Grammardog Guide to Othello

Grammardog Guide to Othello PDF

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2005-06

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570681

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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 The Innocents Abroad

Grammardog Guide to The Innocents Abroad PDF

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2006-10

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570223

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this humorous travel book. All sentences are from the book. Figurative language describes the tourist experience ("great guns frown out upon sea and town," "a snowstorm of waving handkerchiefs," "The street called Straight is straighter than a corkscrew, but not as straight as a rainbow."). Allusions include mythology, religion, literature, history and folklore (Columbus, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Romulus, Aladdin, Shylock, Othello, Agamemnon, St. Mark, Eve, Garden of Eden).

Grammardog Guide to King Lear

Grammardog Guide to King Lear PDF

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2005-03

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570630

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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 Julius Caesar

Grammardog Guide to Julius Caesar PDF

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2005-03

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570622

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this Shakespearean tragedy. All sentences are from the play. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("Beware the Ides of March," "Et tu, Brute?" "Friends, Romans, countrymen lend me your ears," "let slip the dogs of war," "I am constant as the northern star," "It was Greek to me," "Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look," "If you have tears, prepare to shed them now," "This was the most unkindest cut of all," "the fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves that we are underlings").

Grammardog Guide to Walden

Grammardog Guide to Walden PDF

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2007-08

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570843

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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."

Grammardog Guide to Heny V

Grammardog Guide to Heny V PDF

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2006-05

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570746

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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).

Grammardog Guide to Richard III

Grammardog Guide to Richard III PDF

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2006-04

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 160857069X

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this Shakespearean tragedy. All sentences are from the play. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York." "Conscience is but a word that cowards use devised at first to keep the strong in awe." "Was ever woman in this humour woo'd?" "An honest tale speeds best being plainly told." "Why grow the branches when the root is gone?" "I had a Harry, till a Richard killed him." "Who builds his hope in air of your good looks lives like a drunken sailor on a mast." "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!").

Grammardog Guide to Moby Dick

Grammardog Guide to Moby Dick PDF

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2003-08

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570266

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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."

Grammardog Guide to Benito Cereno

Grammardog Guide to Benito Cereno PDF

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2003-08

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1608570142

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this mystery thriller at sea. All sentences are from the short story. Figurative language creates a dark tone, suspicion and suspense (The ship was a "slumbering volcano." The slaves sat "sphinx-like" while chanting low like "bag-pipers playing a funeral march."). Allusions support the theme of mystery and secrecy ("Gordian knots," "Guy-Fawkes," "freemason" "and dark satyr in a mask").

Grammardog Guide to Great Expectations

Grammardog Guide to Great Expectations PDF

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

Published: 2003-08

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 1608570428

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this classic novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language is abundant ("a haystack of buttered toast," "the closet whispered, the fireplace sighed," "a post office of a mouth," "so very blank and high was the dead wall of her face"). Allusions are drawn from mythology (Hercules, myrmidons, Telemachus, Cupid, Argus), religion (Noah's ark, Cain, Lord's Prayer) and literature (Hamlet, Coriolanus, Richard III, Anthony's oration in Julius Caesar, Timon of Athens).