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apostrophe: a standalone construct

One name. One construct. A landmark on the map.

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apostrophe1 CONSTRUCTApostrophe (figure)QUINTILIAN · O, THOU

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Rhetoric

Breaking off to address the absent

In rhetoric, apostrophe is the figure in which a speaker turns away from the present audience to address someone absent or dead, an abstraction, or an inanimate thing, as in "O Death, where is thy sting?" Quintilian's The Orator's Education treats it under the Latin aversus as a turning-away of the discourse, and Lanham's A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms gives the modern definition. The referent is a rhetorical act of redirected address; the Greek root means a turning-away, and it has nothing to do with the punctuation mark beyond that shared root.[1][2]

Unit
A direct address redirected to an absent or non-present addressee
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Identified by a vocative turn away from the audience to an absent, dead, abstract, or inanimate addressee

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contraction4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructsabstraction4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructsaudience3 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

  1. Quintilian. (2001). The orator's education, Volume IV: Books 9–10 (D. A. Russell, Ed. & Trans.; Loeb Classical Library No. 127). Harvard University Press. (Original work published ca. 95 CE) ISBN 9780674995949
  2. Lanham, R. A. (1991). A handlist of rhetorical terms (2nd ed.). University of California Press. ISBN 9780520076693

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