1.+Apostrophe

Apostrophe:
 * figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something non human is addressed as if it were alive and present and was able to reply
 * a statement, question, or request addressed to an inanimate object concept or to a non existent or absent person

**__Examples of Apostrophe:__** "O western wind, when wilt thou blow That the small rain down can rain?" (anonymous, 16th century)

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

"Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race." (James Joyce, **//A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man//**)

"Forerunner, I would like to say, silent pilot, Little dry death, future, Your indirections are as strange to me As my own. I know so little that anything You might tell me would be a revelation." (W.S. Merwin, "**Sire**")

"O stranger of the future! O inconceivable being! whatever the shape of your house, however you scoot from place to place, no matter how strange and colorless the clothes you may wear, I bet nobody likes a wet dog either. I bet everyone in your pub, even the children, pushes her away." (Billy Collins, "**To a Stranger Born in Some Distant Country Hundreds of Years from Now**")