Thursday, March 24, 2011

Questions on Sam McGee

Questions on Sam McGee

1. What is the setting of the poem?

2. What is the rhyme scheme?

3. How many lines to a stanza?

From page 2 of the Poem

4. Give an example of a metaphor

5. Give an example of personification

6. Give an example of onomatopoeia



(Do not use the same example for more than one answer)
Posted by Room 10 at 8:49 AM

13 comments:

  1. EbearMarch 24, 2011 at 1:07 PM

    Dawson Trail.
    Last two words rhyme on first line and the one after that.
    4.
    the greasy smoke in an inky cloak went streaking down the sky.
    Grisly Fear.
    Roared.

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  2. Sweet CandyMarch 24, 2011 at 1:26 PM

    Dawson Trail
    Ababa
    4

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  3. bailey McDonaldApril 7, 2011 at 1:10 PM

    grisly fear streaking down the sky roared

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  4. Dr3w DuncanApril 7, 2011 at 1:24 PM

    4 the grub was getting low

    5 How i loathed the thing

    6 and it harkened with a grin

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  5. HoMeWoRkSuCkS1@0April 7, 2011 at 1:27 PM

    1) Dawson trail
    2) blows, knows, spell, hell
    3) Stanza is a poetic paragraph
    4)On Christmas day we were mushing over the Dawson trail
    5) a sort of moan
    6) moan

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  6. Avery MayApril 7, 2011 at 1:33 PM

    4. The greasy smoke in an inky cloak.

    5. I wrestled with grisly fear.

    6. sizzle

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  7. Room 10April 7, 2011 at 2:00 PM

    Sweet Candy has left a new comment on your post "[ http://room10languagearts.blogspot.com/2011/03/questions-on-sam-mcgee.html ]Questions on Sam McGee":

    Dawson Trails
    Last 2 worlds rhyme on all the lines
    4
    the greasy smoke in an inky coak went streaking down the sky
    Grisly Fear
    Roared

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  8. Room 10April 7, 2011 at 2:01 PM

    joel Cowdery has left a new comment on your post "[ http://room10languagearts.blogspot.com/2011/03/dangerous-dan-mcgrew.html ]Dangerous Dan McGrew":

    A metaphor is the expression of an understanding of one concept in terms of another concept, where there is some similarity or correlation between the two.

    1. a bunch of the boys were whooping it up in the malamute saloon

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  9. Room 10April 7, 2011 at 2:01 PM

    Bear has left a new comment on your post "[ http://room10languagearts.blogspot.com/2011/03/questions-on-sam-mcgee.html ]Questions on Sam McGee":

    1) Dawson trail
    2) the lines 1 and 2 rhyme and the lines 3 and 4 rhyme
    3) 4
    4) the greasy smoke in an inky cloak went streaking down the sky
    5) Every day that quiet clay seemed to heavier grow
    6) sizzle

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  10. Room 10April 7, 2011 at 2:05 PM

    Sweet Candy has left a new comment on your post "[ http://room10languagearts.blogspot.com/2011/03/questions-on-sam-mcgee.html ]Questions on Sam McGee":

    Dawson Trail.
    Last two words rhyme on first line and the one after that.
    4.
    the greasy smoke in an inky cloak went streaking down the sky.
    Grisly Fear.
    Roared.

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  11. Room 10April 7, 2011 at 2:05 PM

    Ebear has left a new comment on your post "[ http://room10languagearts.blogspot.com/2011/03/questions-on-sam-mcgee.html ]Questions on Sam McGee":

    That quiet clay.
    It harkened with a grin.
    Howled.

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  12. Room 10April 7, 2011 at 2:05 PM

    Jared McGregor has left a new comment on your post "[ http://room10languagearts.blogspot.com/2011/03/questions-on-sam-mcgee.html ]Questions on Sam McGee":

    4. Give an example of a metaphor avery is smart as a duck

    5. Give an example of personification the car was drinking oil

    6. Give an example of onomatopoeia zoom

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  13. MarissaApril 8, 2011 at 12:15 PM

    4. Michael is smart as a duck.
    5. The car was drinking oil.
    6. Boom Bang Pow.

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