In your fire you hear me scream! Creaking and whining yet I am dead before you lay me in your hearth.

Answer: log

More Easy Riddles with answers

More Easy Riddles

Inside a burning house, this thing is best to make. And best to make it quickly, before the fire's too much to take.
Is always in front of you but cannot be seen?
It belongs to you but you don’t use it. It does not belong to other people but they use it. What is it?
It belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do. What is it?
It can be clear like water, but it burns like fire.
It can be cracked, It can be made, It can be told, it can be played. What is it?
It can be done to buttons and shopping carts. What is it?
It can be grown in your yard or bought at the store and is given for love when less is more?
It can be used onstage or to express admiration. What is it?
It carries paper of the most important sort but also plastic, I'm glad to report. What is it?
It comes from crystal and melts to a treat. Add it to your tea to make it sweet. What is it?
It comes only before, it comes only after. Rises only in darkness, but rises only in light. It is always the same, but is yet always different.