Apostrophe figurative language

What is literary apostrophe?

• A speech or address to a person who is not present or to a personified object

• Human characteristics to something nonhuman,

• A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing

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What do YOU think apostrophe means?

Check the boxes that are a examples of apostrophes

• Death, be not proud, though some have called thee.

• The wind howled in the night

• The barbarians broke through the barricade

• As innocent as a lamb

• Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!

The wind howled in the night is an apostrophe

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Do you understand figurative apostrophe?

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