"Life Doesn't Frighten Me"

​"Life Doesn't Frighten Me" is a lyric poem, a type of poem in which a single speaker expresses personal ideas and feelings.

Multiple Choice

True or False. A lyric poem is written from the perspective of several speakers.

• True

• False

​Lyric Poetry is . . .

• usually short to convey emotional intensity

• often uses repetition, refrain, and rhyme to create a melodic quality

• includes many forms, such as sonnets (fourteen line poems with a fixed rhyme scheme), odes (poems expressing the writer's thoughts and feelings about a particular person or subject, usually written to that person or subject) , and elegies (sad poems, usually written to praise and express sorrow for someone who is dead).

Multiple Choice

Lyric poems often use repetition, refrain, and ____________

• free verse

• rhyme

• setting

• plot

Multiple Choice

Lyric poetry includes many forms such as sonnets, odes, and ____________.

• acrostic

• narrative text

• haiku

• elegies

​Analyze Structure: Repetition and Refrain

​Poets use structure and poetic elements to create mood and reinforce meaning. Often a poet will repeat certain words, sounds, or even syllables in a poem. This device is called repetition, and it helps emphasize important ideas, convey the speaker's attitude, reveal the author's purpose, and give the poem a musical quality.

Multiple Choice

True or False. Repetition is a technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or entire line is emphasized and or repeated

• True

• False

​One kind of repetition is refrain - a phrase, line, or set of phrases or lines repeated regularly throughout the poem.

Multiple Choice

Fill in the missing word. Refrain is a phrase, ____, or set of phrases or lines that repeat throughout the poem.

• paragraph

• sentence

• line

• ode

Explain Speaker

• ​A poem's speaker, the voice that "talks" to the reader, may be a fictional character

• Lyric poems are usually written from a first-person point of view

• Use of first-person pronouns does not mean that the poet is the speaker

• Clues in the poem may help you identify the speaker and the speaker's situation

Multiple Choice

True or False. A poem's speaker may or may not be a fictional character.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Lyric poems are usually written from which point of view?

• third person objective

• second person

• first person

• third person omniscient

Multiple Choice

True or False. In a lyric poem, the poet is always the speaker.

• True

• False