Apostrophe Figure Of Speech Examples

You might have come across lines like then come sweet death and rid me of this grief it is written in such a way that the person is talking to death which is obviously not a person but a phenomenon. In shakespearean opens in new window julius caesar opens in new window mark antony uses apostrophe when he turns from the assasins to address caesar s corpse.

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Adolphe adam then come sweet death and rid me of this grief.

Apostrophe figure of speech examples. For example in william shakespeare s julius caesar mark antony addresses the corpse of caesar in the speech that begins. I knew him horatio a fellow of infinite jest of most. In elegy for jane roethke addresses jane directly in the last stanza.

Twinkle twinkle little star how i wonder what you are. Julius caesar by william shakespeare. Elegy and ode two common poetic forms both make frequent use of apostrophe.

In addition to being a punctuation mark an apostrophe is a figure of speech in which some absent or nonexistent person or thing is addressed as if present and capable of understanding. In literature apostrophe is a figure of speech sometimes represented by an exclamation such as oh a writer or speaker using apostrophe speaks directly to someone who is not present or is dead or speaks to an inanimate object. Oh trees how majestic you are as you throw down your golden leaves.

The stars are brightly shining. Holy sonnet 10 by. This is an example of apostrophe which is an important figure of speech.

Also known as a turne tale aversio and aversion apostrophes are more often found in poetry than in prose. Literary works featuring apostrophe. Oh rose how sweet you smell and how bright you look.

There rust and let me die. Another example is in the first stanza of william. That i did love thee caesar o tis true if then thy spirit look upon us now shall it not grieve thee dearer than thy death.

This is thy sheath. In this apostrophe example juliet takes romeo s dagger and addresses it. Car please get me to work today.

O pardon me thou bleeding piece of earth that i am meek and gentle. Romeo and juliet by william shakespeare near the very end of shakespeare s romeo and juliet the tragic heroine juliet awakes from her sleeping draught to find romeo dead. Jane taylor o holy night.

Julius caesar act. Queen isabel in edward ii by christopher marlowe o pardon me thou bleeding piece of earth. Hamlet by william shakespeare.

Dear love please don t shoot me with your cupid s bow. An elegy a poem written to commemorate a person who has died sometimes addresses that person directly or laments the death to other people to nature or to god. Apostrophe a rhetorical device by which a speaker turns from the audience as a whole to address a single person or thing.

Apostrophes are words spoken to a person or object which is inherently imaginary object or is an abstract idea. Examples of apostrophe in literature 1.

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