He joked that he was to be punished with free meals
The question Mrs. Olinski got most after her 6th grade class won the Academic Bowl was, “How did you pick your team?”.
I think this is correct.
People believe it is easier and to say and speak.
Answer:
Simile: “but the land of gold seemed to hold him like a spell”
Metaphor: speaker says a promise made is a debt unpaid. Here, the poet uses a metaphor. He compares a promise to unpaid debt.
Personification: It seemed to the speaker as if the furnace roared
Repetition: Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee, where the cotton blooms and blows. Why he left his home is the south to roam 'round the Pole, God only knows.
End rhyme: *see repetition
Imagery: I cremated Sam McGee
Hyperbole: The line, “But the queerest they ever did see,” contains hyperbole.
Assonance: Howled out their woes to the homeless snows— O God! how I loathed the thing
Consonance: Since I left Plumtree, down in Tennessee, it’s the first time I’ve been warm
Internal rhyme: The Northern Lights have seen queer sights”. The words “lights” and “sights” rhyme with each other.
I could not find an understatement in the poem, sorry.
She learns that Romeo is dead
