Grammardog Guide To Sherlock Holmes Stories

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."

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).

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.

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 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 Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language is characteristic of Romanticism ("her soul sat on her lips," "Till morning dawned I tossed on a buoyant but unquiet sea where billows of trouble rolled under surges of joy."). Allusions include references to history, mythology, religion, literature and folklore (Medusa, Guy Fawkes, Sphynx, Macbeth, Paul and Silas, elves, Ariel, Apollo, Eve, mermaid, Eden).

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language is characteristic of Realism ("The coins he earned afterwards seemed as irrelevant as stones brought to complete a house suddenly buried by an earthquake." "He seemed to weave like the spider from pure impulse without reflection." "The thoughts were stranger to him now like old friendships impossible to revive." "The gold had asked that he should sit weaving longer and longer, deafened and blinded more and more to all things except the monotony of his loom . . .").

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).

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this essay. All sentences are from the essay. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("To be great is to be misunderstood." "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist." "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself." "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds . . ." "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; imitation is suicide." "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.").

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this classic novel. All sentences are from the novel. The coming of age story is rich in sensory imagery ("wind howling," "broiled mutton and beer," "a clammy hand," "fragrance of lemon peel and sugar," "eager black eyes"). Allusions pertain to religion, literature and Greek mythology (Lazarus, Noah, Job, Cain, Samson, Hamlet, Macbeth, Robinson Crusoe, Titans, Bacchanalia, Phoebus).