apostrophe

=Apostrophe:=


 * Definition:** A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. The effect may add familiarity or emotional intensity.
 * Dictionary.com:** A digression in the form of an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea, as “O Death, where is thy sting?”

Examples:
//Antony addresses Caesar's corpse immediately following the assasination in Shakespeare's// Julius Caesar//://

O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times. —Shakespeare, //Julius Caesar//

Papa Above! Regard a Mouse. -Emily Dickinson

//Milton! Thou shouldst be living in this hour; England hath need of thee. . . -William Wordsworth//

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