9th grade poetry terms

Language that appeals the senses

• Imagery

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Something non-human given human traits

• Simile

• Chiasmus

• Personification

• Imagery

Speaking to an inanimate object, idea or person not present

• Extended Metaphor

• Apostrophe

• Insanity

• Litotes

Any type of reflective structure

• Allusion

• Metonymy

• Understatement

• Chiasmus

Part of something; used to represent the whole

• Litotes

• Synecdoche

• Extended Metaphor

• Hyperbole

When something related stands for something else

• Metonymy

• Simile

• Chiasmus

• Synecdoche

Positive statement is expressed by a negative; its opposite

• Chiasmus

• Litotes

• Allusion

• Personification

Intentional use of extreme exaggeration

• Understatement

• Hyperble

• Metaphor

• Extended Metaphor

A reference to something well known; often paired with a simile

• Allusion

• Illusion

• Apostrophe

• Imagery

A comparison of two unlike things without mentioning one of them

• Allusion

• Extended Metaphor

• Implied Metaphor

• Metaphor