WorksheetsThe Cremation of Sam McGee Vocabulary
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
"There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold;"
What is the meaning of the word, moil?
to eat
to sleep
to work hard
to freeze
Sam McGee wants Cap to cremate his body when he dies. What does he mean?
He wants Cap to bury him somewhere nice.
He wants Cap to send his body back to Tennessee.
He wants Cap to burn his body to ashes.
He wants Cap to arrange a funeral service for him.
Plain or unattractive in appearance.
homely
special
sickly
tired
A warm jacket with a hood.
parka
porto
piece
parkour
A pal's last need is a think to heed, so I swore I would not fail;
Heed means to _________.
pay attention to
ignore
change
floss
And we started on at the streak of dawn; but God! he looked ghastly pale.
He looked ____________.
frightful and deathly
smart and beautiful
sneaky
happy and smiling
Loathe
to hate
to sing
to enjoy
to skip
Derelect
abandoned, run down
sleepy
scary, frightful
creepy
If you do something seldomly, you do it ___________.
all the time
never
everyday
rarely; not often
My son had a scowl on his face.
He frowned angrily.
He smiled.
He smiled like the Joker.
The year is almost over.
Grisly
frightful, horrible, ghastly
smiley
happy
Next year, I will start to bring a pencil to class.
"But the stars came out and they danced about ere again I ventured near;"
Ventured means...
risked or dared to go
too afraid to go
Two weeks left of school.
I need coffee.
Poetic structure is...
the organization of lines and stanzas in a poem
the way the poem uses figurative language
It looks like a skyscraper.
Love songs. Aw!
A group of lines in a poem...
stanza
meter
rhyme
rhythm
A poem that does not have a formal structure.
open form
closed form
interesting form
google form
rhythm in poetry; regular arrangement of accented and unaccented syllables in each line.
free verse
meter
repetition
stanza
A poem that does not have rhythm, rhyme, or set line length.
free verse
open verse
tired verse
coffee verse
There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold;
repetition: this line is repeated in the poem
free verse: poem with no rhythm or rhyme
stanza: a group of lines in a poem.
I feel like eating a chocolate donut.
There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold;
done and sun is an example of...
internal rhyme
external rhyme
explicit rhyme
end rhyme
"But the stars came out and they danced about ere again I ventured near;"
This line is an example of...
personification
hyperbole
metaphor
simile
How can you infer that the poem takes place during the Klondike Gold Rush?
"The arctic trails have their secret tales that would make your blood run cold;"
But the stars came out and they danced about ere again I ventured near;
The I made a hike, for I didn't like to hear him sizzle so;
Some planks I tore from cabin floor, and I lit the boiler fire;
One central idea of the poem is...
Life was hard for these people who were moiling for gold during the Klondike Gold Rush.
It was so cold for those men who were moiling for gold.
The Klondike Gold Rush was a terrible time in history.
Klondike bars are yummy!
What line in the poem shows that Cap feels obligated to cremate Sam McGee? Choose TWO.
"Well, he seemed so low that I couldn't say no;then he says with a sort of moan; It's the cursed cold, and It's got right hold till i'm chilled clean through bone."
"On a Christmas Day we were mushing our way over the Dawson trail. Talk of your cold! through the parka's fold it stabbed like a driven nail."
"A pal's last need is a thing to heed, so I swore I would not fail;
"And we started on at the streak of dawn; but God! He looked ghastly pale."
Which of the following lines is an example of a simile?
Talk of your cold! through the parka's fold it stabbed like a driven nail.
Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee, where the cotton blooms and blows.
And the dogs were fed, and the stars o'erhead were dancing heel and toe.
What is a simile?
"Since I left Plumtree, down in Tennessee, it's the first time I've been warm."
This line adds to the ____________ tone of the poem.
humourous
serious
angry
death and dying
