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Sam Mcgee Vocabulary

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

"There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold;"


What is the meaning of the word, moil?

a)

to eat

b)

to sleep

c)

to work hard

d)

to freeze

2.

Sam McGee wants Cap to cremate his body when he dies. What does he mean?

a)

He wants Cap to bury him somewhere nice.

b)

He wants Cap to send his body back to Tennessee.

c)

He wants Cap to burn his body to ashes.

d)

He wants Cap to arrange a funeral service for him.

3.

A warm jacket with a hood.

a)

parka

b)

porto

c)

piece

d)

parkour

4.

A pal's last need is a think to heed, so I swore I would not fail;


Heed means to _________.

a)

pay attention to

b)

ignore

c)

change

d)

floss

5.

And we started on at the streak of dawn; but God! he looked ghastly pale.


He looked ____________.

a)

frightful and deathly

b)

smart and beautiful

c)

sneaky

d)

happy and smiling

6.

Loathe

a)

to hate

b)

to sing

c)

to enjoy

d)

to skip

7.

Derelect

a)

abandoned, run down

b)

sleepy

c)

scary, frightful

d)

creepy

8.

If you do something seldomly, you do it ___________.

a)

all the time

b)

never

c)

everyday

d)

rarely; not often

9.

My son had a scowl on his face.

a)

He frowned angrily.

b)

He smiled.

c)

He smiled like the Joker.

d)

The year is almost over.

10.

Grisly

a)

frightful, horrible, ghastly

b)

smiley

c)

happy

d)

Next year, I will start to bring a pencil to class.

11.

Poetic structure is...

a)

the organization of lines and stanzas in a poem

b)

the way the poem uses figurative language

c)

It looks like a skyscraper.

d)

Love songs. Aw!

12.

A group of lines in a poem...

a)

stanza

b)

meter

c)

rhyme

d)

rhythm

13.

"But the stars came out and they danced about ere again I ventured near;"


This line is an example of...

a)

personification

b)

hyperbole

c)

metaphor

d)

simile

14.

Which of the following lines is an example of a simile?

a)

Talk of your cold! through the parka's fold it stabbed like a driven nail.

b)

Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee, where the cotton blooms and blows.

c)

And the dogs were fed, and the stars o'erhead were dancing heel and toe.

d)

What is a simile?

15.

Which device is used in "where the cotton blooms and blows"?

a)

personification

b)

allusion

c)

alliteration

d)

hyperbole