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Rhetorical ApostropheSet 1

1Words that are spoken to a person who is absent or imaginary, or to an object or abstract idea. The poem God's Wold by Edna St Vincent Millay begins with an apostrophe: "O World, I cannot hold thee close enough!/Thy winds, thy wide grey skies!Thy mists that roll and rise!"

2"Delivery is by most writers called action; but it appears to derive one name from the voice, and the other from the gesture; for Cicero calls action sometimes the language, as it were, and sometimes the eloquence of the body."Action defined as word and gesture, here, is attributed to:

3You need to take responsibility for protecting the environment.

4It is used when one addresses a person-dead or just absent; or an object including ideas and abstractions.

5Addressing an inanimate object as if it were alive or addressing an absent person as if he were present

6Character speaks directly to the audience (no other characters hear)

7What figure of speech is being asked? "Rizal! See the fair hope of the Fatherland."

8"Time, " she pleaded, "please do not take me yet." What figure of speech was used here?

9"Oh! Cellphone,why won't you turn on?"This sentence is an example of apostrophe.

10From Keats's Nightingale: "Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!" -figura?

11Which type of figure of speech addresses the absent, inanimate, or inhuman as if it could hear and understand?

12Who is addressed in the question, "Et tu, Brute?" ?

13"Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again ..... " (Paul Simon, The Sounds of Silence)

14What figure of speech is employed when the author states. "O souls and spirits of the martyred brave arise?"

15What is Apostrophe?

16Figure of speech where author/speaker addresses an object, person or idea that is not present.

17Oh no! It's starting to rain. Where are you, Mister Sun?

18Which word means "prayer-like, this is a direct address to someone who is not present, to a deity or muse, or to some other power"?

19Car, please get me to work today.

20Which of these is a language feature?

21Which term refers to a direct address to someone or something in a speech?

22Addressing someone absent or dead or something nonhuman as if that person or thing were there; usually starts with "O" or "Oh" like "O, Death ..... "

23Literature. Choose the correct and best option in each number.The line below is an example of what type of figures of speech?O Solitude! Where are the charms that sages have seen in thy face?

24In which sentence below is someone talking to someone else and calling that person 'honey'?

25Which literary device is most dominant in Remembrance?

26Breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing, some abstract quality, an inanimate object, or a nonexistent character.

27What is the definition of "apostrophe" in poetry?

28What figure of speech was used in this sentence:Shame on you, poverty, for our determination will win out.

29What is the effect of using direct address in persuasive writing?

30Oh, Christmas tree, oh, Christmas tree, how lovely are your branches.

31A figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could replyExample: "Oh, Wind! Stop blowing my hair!"

32Hello darkness, my old friend. I have come to talk to you again.

33"Blue moon, you saw me standing alone/Without a dream in my heart, without a love of my own." -Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.The singer addressing the moon directly is what type of figurative language?

34Ugh, my phone, please load my messages.

35Which line most clearly shows second-person address typical of an ode?

36Fill in the blank: Apostrophe is .....

37What subjects did the King study with Alcuin?

38Apostrophe (as used in rhetoric)

39Which literary device means speaking to someone who is not present or to a non-human thing?

40"Exult O shores, and ring O bells!" is what type of rhetorical device?

41What is a technique that addresses or calls to an absent person or personified object as if they are able to reply?

42'Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are!' is an example of addressing an absent or imaginary person or thing, which is called:

43In literature, an ..... is used when someone speaks directly to someone who is not there, someone who is dead, to an inanimate object, or abstract idea.

44"Oh, Starbucks, how I love you! Your medium-dark roast allowed me to survive that meeting!" is an example of a(n)

45Directly addressing a thing

46"Oh nature, thou art my goddess?"

47In theater, addressing the audience directly during a scene is commonly referred to as breaking which element?

48Addressing a person who is not present