Poetic Devices in "The Cremation of Sam McGee"

There are strange things done in the midnight sun

• internal rhyme

• rhyme scheme

• slant rhyme

• rhythm

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

blooms and blows

• alliteration

• rhyme

• negative connotation

• slant rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

If our eyes we'd close, then the lashes froze till sometimes we couldn't see

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

• repetition

• alliteration

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.L.7.5D

CCSS.RL.7.4

the stars o'erhead were dancing heel and toe

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

• repetition

• alliteration

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

Some coal I found that was lying around, and I heaped the fuel higher

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

• repetition

• alliteration

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

dread

• negative connotation

• positive connotation

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CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

loathed

• negative connotation

• positive connotation

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CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

calm

• negative connotation

• positive connotation

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CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

hateful

• negative connotation

• positive connotation

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CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

In the long, long night by the lone firelight

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

• repetition

• alliteration

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4