Apostrophe

=APOSTROPHE= Apostrophe is a figure of speech directed to an imaginary person or abstract quality or idea.

It is related to personification, although in apostrophe, the speaker is addressing the object as he would a person in his presence. This rhetorical device addresses things which are personified; absent people or gods. It is used a lot when characters speak to dead people.

Shakespeare, //Julius Caesar//, Act 3, Scene 1
“Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee! I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.” - shakespeares Macbeth

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In //The Catcher in the Rye//, an example of apostrophe would be when Holden talks to Allie for help. He is talking to Allie as if Allie was still living in front of him, but that was not the case.