Apostrophe | Apostrophe Meaning, Definition, Examples, Illustration
Apostrophe Meaning, Definition, Examples, Illustration
Apostrophe | Apostrophe Meaning, Definition, Examples, Illustration
The word ‘apostrophe’ is derived from the Greek word ‘apos-strepho’ which means ‘turn away’. By this figure, the speaker turns away from the course of his speech and addresses a person absent or dead or an inanimate object or an abstract idea. Apostrophe involves personification when the address is made to an inanimate object or an abstract idea. Personification implied by this figure is sometimes called ‘Passive Personification’ because the inanimate objects or abstract ideas are here conceived of as having the capacity of passively listening to the address made to them. Example:
O friend! I know not which way I must look for comfort. –Wordsworth
Here the poet suddenly turns away from his course of speech and addresses one of his friends who is absent and expresses his feeling.
More examples:
(a) Person:
- O Christ! It is the Incheape Rock. –Southey
- Dear God! The very houses seem asleep. –Wordsworth.
- Milton! Thou should be living at this hour. –Wordsworth.
(b) Inanimate Object:
- Chillon! Thy prison is a holy place. – Byron
- Earth! render back from out thy breast.
A remnant of our Spartan dead! –Byron
- O Wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? –Shelley
(c) Abstract idea:
- O Liberty! My spirit felt thee there. –Coleridge.
- O Solitude! Where are the charms
That sages have seen in thy face? –Cowper
- O Judgment! Thou art fled to brutish breast. –Shakespeare.
- Mischief! Thou art afoot. –Shakespeare. 0 0 0.
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N. B. The article ‘Apostrophe | Apostrophe Meaning, Definition, Examples, Illustration‘ originally belongs to the book ‘The Rhetoric‘ by Menonim Menonimus.
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