WorksheetsSam Mcgee Vocabulary
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
"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.
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.
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
"But the stars came out and they danced about ere again I ventured near;"
This line is an example of...
personification
hyperbole
metaphor
simile
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?
Which device is used in "where the cotton blooms and blows"?
personification
allusion
alliteration
hyperbole
