Apostrophe

The apostrophe is a literary figure of dialogue that consists of addressing, during a speech or narration, generally with emotion or vehemence, an interlocutor who may be present, deceased or absent, inanimate objects personified or even the author or speaker himself. Generally the vocative or imperative is used. The use of this resource is very common in prayers or prayers, in soliloquies and invocations. The use of this figure in politics is also frequent, since it creates the impression among the public that the speaker is directly addressing himself, which increases receptivity.

Examples

Giant waves you break brawn
on the deserted and remote beaches,
wrapped between foam sheets,
Take me with you!

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Rima LII

Or virtuous, magnificent war!
In you, the complaints were due,
in you our dying lived
for glory in heaven and fame on earth,
in you do the cruel spear
Nin fears the blood of relatives;
revoke our nations to you
of such questions and so much deferral.

Juan de Mena, Labyrinth of Fortune

Head neck, hair, lip and forehead
before what was in your golden age
gold, lilium, carnnel, bright crystal,

not only in silver or thunder
turn, plus you and it together
on earth, in smoke, in dust, in shade, in nothing.

Luis de Góngora y Argote, While competing with your hair...

Oh night you led!
Oh nice night more than the dawn,
Oh night you joined
Beloved,
loved in the Beloved transformed!

San Juan de la Cruz, Dark night