The Grammardog Guide to Short Stories by Stephen Cranecontains 16 analytical multiple choice quizzes with a total of over 250 questions. These multiple choice questions based on text sentences from the short stories are excellent teaching tools, providing the basis for thoughtful, engaging activities for your students.
Short Stories: The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, The Open Boat, The Veteran, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, The Blue Hotel.
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").
