Friday, September 9, 2011
Apostrophe
Apostrophe (Greek ἀποστροφή, apostrophé, "turning away") is an exclamatory rhetorical figure of speech, when a speaker or writer breaks off and directs speech to an imaginary person or abstract quality or idea. In dramatic works and poetry written in or translated into English, such a figure of speech is often introduced by the exclamation "O".
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