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The Cremation of sam mcgee
by Robert Service

Figurative Language Worksheet
Directions: Identify the type of figurative language used in the underlined parts of each stanza: simile, metaphor, personification, idiom, onomatopoeia, or hyperbole.

NPR Audio show on Sam McGee

Johnny Cash reads Sam McGee

The Cremation of Sam McGee --short dramatization

Dramatic Historical Performance Video

History

Picture
The poetic license of Robert Service made Sam McGee famous as a prospector from Tennessee who could never get warm in the Yukon. However the real Sam McGee came from Ontario via San Francisco to the Yukon in 1898. The following year he settled into this rustic log cabin. Known as a “roadhouse king,” McGee operated lodgings at Canyon Creek, 80 miles north of Whitehorse. He was also a miner, a teamster, a sawmill operator and a leading road builder. McGee left the Yukon in 1909 and only returned for a brief prospecting trip in 1938.



Photo and information courtesy of Robert W. Service.com
website credit:  http://www.oreilly-fire.com/documents/cremation_sam_mcgee.htm