Grammardog Guide To Conrad Short Stories

Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
ISBN 13 : 1608570029
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grammardog Guide to The Rocking-Horse Winner written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this short story. All sentences are from the story. Figurative language includes: "She married for love, and the love turned to dust." "She felt the center of her heart go hard." "Bassett was serious as a church" "The house whispers." Alliteration includes: "His mother had sudden strange seizures." "There must be more money!" "Then suddenly she switched on the light and saw her son."

Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
ISBN 13 : 160857038X
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grammardog Guide to Conrad Short Stories written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lagoon, Youth, Amy Foster, The Secret Sharer, An Outpost of Progress.Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for these short stories. All sentences are from the stories. In tales set in Asia, Africa, and Great Britain, Conrad excels at poetic devices including alliteration ("sleep on the soft sand in the shade"), assonance ("breeder of sheep and deals"), consonance ("green satin ribbon"), repetition ("had been in trouble, or was in trouble, or expected to be in trouble") and rhyme ("a bright light traveling in the night"). Allusions mix superstition with religion and Greek mythology (magicians, witchcraft, Allah, Lord's Prayer, Erebus and Nemesis).

Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
ISBN 13 : 1608570282
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grammardog Guide to Poe Short Stories written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 13 : 1608570061
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grammardog Guide to The Importance of Being Earnest written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 13 : 1608571858
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grammardog Guide to The Turn of the Screw written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2009-02-15 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this short story. All sentences are from the story. Figurative language includes: "long slumbering hospitality seemed to be easily awakened," "the sharp dry twigs caught and held her and scratched her like talons," "The old pine must have loved his new dependent." "the great world for the first time puts out a hand to her," "the murmur of the pine's green branches is in her ears," "there was the huge tree asleep yet in the paling moonlight."

Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
ISBN 13 : 1608571866
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grammardog Guide to the Three Strangers written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this short story. All sentences are from the story. Figurative language includes: "The garden path stretched downward from his feet, gleaming like the track of a snail." "Beyond all this winked a few bleared lamplights . . ." "the snare set by Nature." Sensory imagery includes: "the latch clicked," "he wore a suit of cinder-gray," "patter of the rain," "shaking hands heartily at the door," "brewed of the purest first-year maiden honey."

Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
ISBN 13 : 1608570533
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grammardog Guide to Sherlock Holmes Stories written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Red-headed League, The Adventure of the Speckled Band, The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb, The Crooked Man, The Final Problem. Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for these short stories. All sentences are from the stories. Figurative language includes: "The bare sight of me was like a bullet through his guilty heart." "The roadway was blocked with the immense stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward . . ." ". . . we saw a gigantic column of smoke which . . . hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape." Onomatopoeia includes: "clinked," "clang," "hiss," "whishing," "clank," and "swish."

Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
ISBN 13 : 1608570134
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grammardog Guide to Bartleby the Scrivener written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 13 : 1608570169
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grammardog Guide to The Call of the Wild written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2004-02 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
ISBN 13 : 1608570258
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grammardog Guide to London Short Stories written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."