Lyric Poetry / Diction & Tone Reupload + Answer Explanations

The dictionary definetion of a word

• denotation

• shades of meaning

• connotation

The way the speaker talks-the tone or attitude- is often a critical part of the poem.

• FALSE

• TRUE

Denotation is a word's ____________.

• Literal, dictionary definetion

• Mood

• Diction

• Emotional meaning

What is the "tone" of a story or poem?

• The author, narrator, or speaker's attitude toward a subject.

• The time and place of the story.

• The summary of events in the story.

• The feeling the passage evokes from the reader.

The poet is always the speaker in a poem.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Refers to the feelings and ideas a word evokes.

• Connotation

• Synonym

• Diction

• Denotation

What does a lyric poem express?

• hard times and hurt feelings

• happy times and exciting feelings

• personal thoughts and feelings

• gloomy times and bad feelings

Why is this a LYRIC poem?

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee: And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

-from "The Lake Isle of Innishfree," by William Butler Yeats

• It features bees who are main characters in the story.

• It captures a moment in place and time in great detail.

• It includes a setting that is important to understanding the story.

Perhaps because bats are nocturnal in habit, a wealth of thoroughly unreliable legend has grown up about them, and men have made of the harmless, even beneficial little beasts a means of expressing their unreasonable fears. Bats were the standard paraphernalia for witches, the females half of humanity stood in terror that bats would become entangled in their hair. Phrases crept into the language expressing man's revulsion or ignorance—"Bat's in the Belfry," "Batty," "Blind as a Bat."

• creepy

• informational

• exciting

• scary

Consider the following sentences. I hear my brother talking on the phone with his girlfriend. I hear my brother chatting on the phone with his girlfriend. How does the connotation of the word chatting in the second sentence convey the author's purpose?

• It implies anger or resentment in the conversations.

• It implies that the conversation is funny.

• It implies the conversation is not serious

• It implies the conversation is very serious.