The Grammardog Guide to Sherlock Holmes Storiescontains 16 analytical multiple choice quizzes with a total of over 250 questions. These multiple choice questions based on text sentences from the short stories by Arthur C. Doyle are excellent teaching tools, providing the basis for thoughtful, engaging activities for your students.
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.
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."
