| Examples Help! What is the definition of Apostrophe? How do you define Apostrophe? What is an Apostrophe? The word derives from the Latin word 'apostrophus' meaning ' turning away'. Plural: apostrophes. An apostrophe is also a punctuation mark which is used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word. The definition of the Apostrophe as a rhetorical device is as follows: |
| English Grammar & Terminology Definition of Apostrophe - a rhetorical device | | Definition: A rhetorical device which is used to directly address an absent or imaginary person or object as if alive and present and could reply. Addressing an abstract idea or nonhuman object, often begins with the exclamation "O" or "Oh" Example: "Twinkle, twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are?" | | Definition of Apostrophe - a poetic device |
Examples of Apostrophe in Poems & Poetry
Poems with Apostrophe examples can be found by the most famous poets including Wordsworth, Byron and Walt Whitman - "Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour" from the sonnet 'Milton' by William Wordsworth
- "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." from Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 1. by William Shakespeare
- "To what green altar, O mysterious priest, / Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies, / And all her silken flanks with garlands drest?" from "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats
- "Roll on thou dark and deep blue ocean." from "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" by Lord Byron
- O Captain! My Captain!, title of the famous poem by Walt Whitman
- Busy old fool, unruly sun,
Why dost thou thus,
Through
windows, and through curtains call on us? from "The Sun Rising" by John Donne
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Examples Help! Use of Apostrophe in Poems & Poetry Examples of Apostrophe can be found in many examples of the poem, poems or poetry. Famous poets use this figure of speech to convey and emphasize unusual and vivid images. The use of strong word association changes the mode of thought and adds variation, embellishment and adornment to literary works. Examples Help - Figures of Speech - Apostrophe In Figurative Language we use words in such a way that they differ somewhat from ordinary every-day speech and convey meanings in a more vivid and impressive manner. Figures, like Apostrophe make speech more effective, they beautify and emphasize it in Rhetoric which is the art of speaking and writing effectively. Figures of speech such as Apostrophe use word association to convey emotion and mood often in a non-literal sense. | |
Examples Help! Using Apostrophe Figures of speech such as Apostrophe adds adornment, beautifies, colors, elegant variation, embellishment, embroidery, emphasis, exaggeration, exclamation, flourish, floweriness, irony, lushness and luxuriance to the English language. This page providing facts and info about Figures of Speech will help with the understanding of this subject. | |
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