The Grammardog Guide to Great Expectations contains 16 analytical multiple choice quizzes with a total of over 250 questions. These multiple choice questions based on text sentences from the classic novel by Charles Dickens are excellent teaching tools, providing the basis for thoughtful, engaging activities for your students.
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).
