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a figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, the effect can add familiarity or emotional intensity.
Definition
Apostrophe
My thoughts would compel utterance; and there, with no audience but the Almighty, I would pour out my soul's complaint, in my rude way, with an apostrophe to the moving multitude of ships:-- "You are loosed from your moorings, and are free; I am fast in my chains, and am a slave! You move merrily before the gentle gale, and I sadly before the bloody whip! You are freedom's swift-winged angels, that fly round the world; I am confined in bands of iron! O that I were free! O, that I were on one of your gallant decks, and under your protecting wing! Alas!
Hey, Jude, don't make it bad Take a sad song and make it better Remember to let her into your heart Then you can start to make it better
Frederick Douglass (pg 63)
"Hey Jude" by The Beatles
