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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this classic. All sentences are from the novel. The language is full of fun and familiar characters like the White Rabbit, Mad Hatter and Cheshire Cat. Figurative language includes lots of hyperbole (All persons more than a mile high to leave the court!) and simile combined with rhyme (Up above the world you fly, like a tea tray in the sky). Sophisticated allusions pertain to mathematics, time, law and order and toys and games.

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this Shakespearean comedy. All sentences are from the play. Some sentences sound like proverbs (Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none). Figurative language centers on love, marriage and courtship. Alliteration creates a light-hearted tone (A young man married is a man that's marred). Allusions to mythology include Cupid, Juno, Mars, Hercules and Jove.

Grammardog Teacher’s guide contains 6 quizzes that identify allusions and symbols in 6 novels by Charles Dickens.  135 multiple choice questions.  All sentences are from these 6 novels: A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Hard Times, and Oliver Twist.

Grammardog Teacher’s guide contains 20 quizzes that identify allusions and symbols in 20 plays by Shakespeare.  400 multiple choice questions.  All sentences are from 20 plays.

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 6 quizzes that identify allusions and symbols in 6 novels by Mark Twain.  150 multiple choice questions.  All sentences are from these 6 novels:  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Huckleberry Finn, The Innocents Abroad, Life on the Mississippi, The Prince and the Pauper, and Tom Sawyer.

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this dystopic tale. All sentences are from the novel. Quizzes use short sentences characteristic of the futuristic genre. Figurative language contrasts nature with the sterile world of dystopia (blue as morning, puddle of light, the trees have swallowed the ruins). Allusions reflect the conflict between government and technology and mythology and archetypal symbols that stir the emotions.

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this Shakespearean tragedy. All sentences are from the play. This sequel to Shakespeare's Julius Caesar features historical references to Caesar, Cassius, Brutus and Pompey. Some sentences sound like proverbs (Kingdoms are clay. Make not your thoughts your prisons. Impatience does become a dog that's mad.). Some lines originate familiar expressions like salad days and man of steel. Allusions mix Egyptian, Greek and Roman gods (Isis, Hercules, Narcissus, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Neptune).

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this Shakespearean comedy. All sentences are from the play. Some sentences are familiar quotes (All the world's a stage and motley fool). Figurative language centers on love, marriage and courtship. Advice to lovers abounds (A man falls in love in April and weds in December). Allusions are as mixed-up as the plot (Robin Hood, Cleopatra, Judas, Pythagoras, Diana and Hercules).

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this landmark feminist classic. All sentences are from the novel. Quizzes use language that describes the romantic settings of the Louisiana Gulf coast and New Orleans. Naturalism is reflected in figurative language and lush descriptions of "hot breath of the Southern night," "the voice of the sea is seductive," and "the touch of the sea is sensuous." Allusions blend Creole folklore, classical myths, Catholicism and classical music. Feminism is poetically expressed ("The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings").

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.

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 Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this sea tale. All sentences are from the novella. Figurative language compares the innocent Billy Budd to birds (goldfinch, migratory bird) and a young horse fresh from the farm. Biblical allusions support the theme of difficult moral decisions (Adam, the serpent and the apple of knowledge, Abraham and Isaac, Jonah, Saul and David, and Joseph).