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A discussion of literary and rhetorical terms
Term Tuesday A discussion of literary and rhetorical terms
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APOSTROPHE
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Definitions A form of personification in which the absent or dead are spoken to as if present and the inanimate as if animate The direct address of someone or something that is not present
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Uses Associated with deep emotions
Can be used for the purpose of parody and satire Often used in odes or invocations
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Ode on a Grecian Urn The speaker addresses an URN!
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Ode on a Grecian Urn Thou still unravished bride of quietness
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:
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London Milton! Thou should’st be living at this hour;
England hath need of thee… By William Wordsworth
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Ode to an Artichoke?
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Ode to an Artichoke Oh, you circular pile of thick monstrous leaves
Filled with fibers of flavor too rich to deceive And amputating your naked thistles I start The lengthy journey of finding your heart
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Ode to an Artichoke My machete hand through thick jungle green
Goes plunging and tearing to where I have been My muscles are weakening, my head’s in a daze Too late, I wake to humanity’s craze
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Ode to an Artichoke To conquer and reign, to be better than best
To pass over answers in search of the test I’m tired of fighting for things out of reach Tomorrow, for lunch, I’m eatin’ a peach. By Rebecca St. George
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Apostrophize WHS for KiYi
Writing your own Apostrophize WHS for KiYi
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Writing your own Old venerable halls Second home
Bastion of intellectual development Democracy’s propagator Attendance Center Prison walls
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