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What does a lyric poem express?

• gloomy times and bad feelings

• hard times and hurt feelings

• happy times and exciting feelings

• personal thoughts and feelings

In ancient times, lyric poems were created to be __________.

• read

• sung

• explained

• imagined

A poem consisting of a single speaker expressing a state of mind or process or perception, feeling, emotion, or thought

• Lyric
• Sonnet
• Narrative
• Free Verse

A person might write a lyric poem if they were:

• writing a research paper on Shakespeare

• writing a poem about someone who has died

• writing a script for a play

• writing a short humorous story

To figure out the theme of a lyric poem, you should think about:

• the events that make of the plot

• the feelings that are the heart of the poem

• the literal meaning of each line in the poem

• the poem's use of lines and stanzas

Lyric poetry is:

• a long narrative poem that tells of the adventures of a hero

• a brief funny poem that pokes fun at something

• a narrative poem written in four-line stanzas

• a poem that expresses feelings or ideas rather than telling a story

Which of these would be considered a poem?

• A paragraph from a novel.

• Song lyrics.

• A conversation between two people.

• Any sentence.

The vivid images in lyric poetry are created with--

• musical accompaniment

• an exact rhyme scheme

• all the components of plot

• sensory details

The word lyric is based on an instrument that Greek poets strummed while speaking their poems. What is its name?

• lyre

• violin

• harp

• cello

The majority of poetry is ______.

• narrative

• lyrical