What does lyric mean?
Word: Lyric
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Lyric means a short poem that expresses the writer's feelings. In the plural, lyrics are the words of a song.
How do you spell lyric?
Syllables: lyr - ic
Tricky part: The sound at the start makes children write an i after the l, as in liric. The letter that belongs there is a y.
Watch out for: liric, lyrric
Memory tip: A singer with both arms raised high makes the shape of the letter y, and that letter stands right after the l.
Lyric in a sentence
Example 1: Hari knows the lyrics of every song in the film.
Example 2: Our teacher read a short lyric about the first rain of the monsoon.
Example 3: Mum hummed the tune but kept forgetting the lyrics.
Fun Fact
The word goes back to the lyre, a small stringed instrument of ancient Greece. Poems were once sung to its music.
Practise the CREST Way
Spellacadabra
Choose the correct option to make a meaningful word:
lyr____
a) ic
b) ique
c) ick
d) ik
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a) ic. The word finishes the way comic and tonic do, with no k and no extra letters.
Word Fusion
Add the correct option to the unfinished word to complete the sentence:
A lyric_____ writes the words for the songs in a film.
a) ist
b) ast
c) est
d) yst
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a) ist. Ist often marks a person who does something, as in artist.
Spell Spies
Choose the misspelt word/s in the given sentence:
This old lyric is about a sailor crossing the ocaen at night.
a) only lyric
b) sailor and ocaen
c) lyric and sailor
d) only ocaen
Show answer
d) only ocaen. The great body of salt water has its vowels the other way round; sailor and lyric are fine.
Jumble Tumble
What is the meaning of the word that can be formed from the given letters?
cylri
a) a talk given to a class of students
b) some lines of verse that come from the heart
c) a piece of writing about a person's life
d) a long story told in many chapters
Show answer
b) some lines of verse that come from the heart. The five letters rearrange into only one word, and it belongs with poems and songs.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which of these is most like a lyric poem?
a) a few lines about missing home
b) a report on a cricket match
c) a list of train timings
d) a page of maths sums
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a) a few lines about missing home
2. Alice's favourite part of the song is its lyrics. What does she enjoy most?
a) what the singer is saying
b) how high the flute goes
c) how fast the drums beat
d) how the dancers move
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a) what the singer is saying
