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AP Lit & Comp
Per 3
Apostrophe
Apostrophe: The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms
“A rhetorical figure in which the speaker directly and often emotionally addresses
Dial 1 a person who is dead or absent, an imaginary or nonhuman entity, or a place or concept (usually an abstract idea or ideal). The object of the apostrophe, if not human, is often personified.”
Example: Batter My Heart Three Personed God
“you as yet but knock, breathe, shine and seek to mend;”
Function
Context:
Around the time Batter My Heart Three Personed God is suspected of being written (1618) the 30 year war begun, fought between Catholics and Protestants and also drew in the national armies of France, Sweden, Spain, Denmark, and the Habsburg dynasty
AP Lit & Comp
Per 3
Apostrophe
Apostrophe: The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms
“A rhetorical figure in which the speaker directly and often emotionally addresses
Dial 1 a person who is dead or absent, an imaginary or nonhuman entity, or a place or concept (usually an abstract idea or ideal). The object of the apostrophe, if not human, is often personified.”
Example: Batter My Heart Three Personed God
“you as yet but knock, breathe, shine and seek to mend;”
Function
Context:
Around the time Batter My Heart Three Personed God is suspected of being written (1618) the 30 year war begun, fought between Catholics and Protestants and also drew in the national armies of France, Sweden, Spain, Denmark, and the Habsburg dynasty