APOSTROPHE, LITERARY DEVICE.

Apostrophe

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FIGURES OF SPEECH

A figure of speech is a departure from the ordinary form of expression, or the ordinary course of ideas in order to produce a greater effect.

Figures of speech may be classified as under:

1.       Those based on resemblance, such as simile, metaphor, personification and apostrophe.

2.       Those based on contrast, such as Antithesis and Epigram.

3.       Those based on association, such as Metonymy and Synecdoche.

4.       Those based on construction, such as Climax and Anticlimax.

APOSTROPHE

WHAT IS AN APOSTROPHE?

Ans.  Apostrophe is an exclamatory figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience or the listeners, and directs his speech to a third person such as an opposing litigant or some other individual of any kind, sometimes even absent from the scene of the speech. Often such address to such third parties is a personified abstract quality or inanimate object. In dramatics and poetry, such a a figure of speech is introduced by a vocative exclamation. “O”. Poets or dramatists often apostrophize a beloved, God, love, time, destiny or any other entity that cannot actually respond in the real time situation of the speech.

Examples: “O death where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?”

                     “O pardon me, thou bleeding peace 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.”

An apostrophe is a direct address to the dead, to the absent, or to a personified object or idea. This is a literary term or figure of speech which is somehow special from a personification and somehow like a personification. It is our sense or sensibility that makes us keen to understand such minute differences and literature is the subject that makes our sensibility such sharp.

Given below are some more examples for better understanding of our readers.

1.     O Milton! Thou shuld’st be living at this hour.

2.     O friend! I know not which way I must look for comfort.

3.     Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocaean-roll !

4.     O liberty, what crimes have been committed in thy name?

5.     Wave, Munich, all thy banners wave

And charge with all thy chivalry!

6.     O judgment! Thou art are fled to brutish beasts.

7.     O solitude! where are thy charms

8.     Those sages have seen thy face?

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