2023-2024 Senior Semester 1 Exam Review: Poetry and Hamlet

A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art.

• Allusion

• Diction

• Free Verse

• Metaphor

The author’s specific word choice

• Meter

• Symbol

• Diction

• Stanza

Poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter

• Rhythm

• Allusion

• Meter

• Free Verse

A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things without using connecting words, such as “like” or “as.”

• Allusion

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Symbol

The measured arrangement of sounds/beats in a poem, including the poet’s placement of emphasis and the number of syllables per line.

• Free Verse

• Meter

• Stanza

• Symbol

The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry. Depending on how sounds are arranged, the _____ of a poem may be fast or slow, choppy or smooth

• Free Verse

• Tone

• Verse

• Rhythm

A unified group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by spacing between sections of the poem.

• Tone

• Stanza

• Meter

• Diction

An object or action that means something more than its literal meaning.

• Allusion

• Diction

• Rhythm

• Symbol

The attitude the poem’s narrator (this may or may not be the actual poet) takes towards a subject or character: serious, humorous, sarcastic, ironic, concerned, tongue-in-cheek, solemn, objective, etc

• Metaphor

• Tone

• Rhythm

• Allusion

A single line of poetry

• Verse

• Stanza

• Symbol

• Diction