Examples of Apostrophe Figure of speech?

Answer 1

here you go.

here are some of the examples of apstrophe (figures of speech)

* "Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour:

England hath need of thee . . .."

(William Wordsworth, "London, 1802") *

* "Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art"

(John Keats) *

* "Science! True daughter of Old Time thou art!"

(Edgar Allan Poe, "To Science") *

* "Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race. . . . Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead."

(James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) *

* "Blue Moon, you saw me standing alone

Without a dream in my heart

Without a love of my own.

(Lorenz Hart, "Blue Moon") *

* "O stranger of the future!

O inconceivable being!

whatever the shape of your house,

however you scoot from place to place,

no matter how strange and colorless the clothes you may wear,

I bet nobody likes a wet dog either.

I bet everyone in your pub,

even the children, pushes her away."

(Billy Collins, "To a Stranger Born in Some Distant Country Hundreds of Years from Now")