"The Cremation of Sam McGee" Practice

Who is the author of "The Cremation of Sam McGee"?

• Robert W. Service
• Robert Frost
• Charles Dodgson
• Lewis Carroll

Where is this poem set?

• Yukon
• Nunavut
• Northwest Territories
• British Columbia

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How many stanzas does this poem have?

• 4
• 14
• 15
• 48

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What is a four-line stanza called?

• quatrain
• couplet
• tercet
• cinquain

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What style of poem is "The Cremation of Sam McGee"?

• ballad
• acrostic
• sonnet
• free verse

What kind of meter does this poem exemplify?

• heptameter
• tetrameter
• pentameter
• hexameter

From what point of view is this poem told?

• 1st person
• 2nd person
• 3rd person limited
• 3rd person omniscient

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"...and the stars o'erhead were dancing heel and toe." Of what poetic device is this an example?

• personification
• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia
• alliteration

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"Talk of your cold! through the parka's fold it stabbed like a driven nail." What is being personified?

• the cold
• the parka
• the nail
• talk

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"And he wore a smile you could see a mile, ...." What poetic device does this best exemplify?

• simile
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• oxymoron

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