The figure of speech involving a direct address either to an absent person or to a personified…
'Apostrophe' is a rhetorical figure of speech in which a speaker turns away from the audience to directly address an absent, dead, or imaginary person, or a personified…
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'Apostrophe' is a rhetorical figure of speech in which a speaker turns away from the audience to directly address an absent, dead, or imaginary person, or a personified abstract idea/inanimate object (e.g., 'O Wild West Wind!').
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