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Exploring Apostrophe: Understanding Its Role in Literature and Emotion

This discussion delves into the literary and rhetorical term "Apostrophe," a form of personification where absent or dead entities are addressed as if present, and inanimate objects are treated as animate. It emphasizes the emotional depth and poetic power of apostrophe in literature, highlighting its use in odes and invocations, with examples from notable poems like "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats and "Ode to an Artichoke" by Rebecca St. George. We encourage participants to create their own apostrophic compositions.

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Exploring Apostrophe: Understanding Its Role in Literature and Emotion

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  1. Term Tuesday A discussion of literary and rhetorical terms

  2. APOSTROPHE

  3. Definitions A form of personification in which the absent or dead are spoken to as if present and the inanimate as if animate The direct address of someone or something that is not present

  4. Uses • Associated with deep emotions • Can be used for the purpose of parody and satire • Often used in odes or invocations

  5. Ode on a Grecian Urn The speaker addresses an URN!

  6. Ode on a Grecian Urn Thou still unravished bride of quietness Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:

  7. London Milton! Thou should’st be living at this hour; England hath need of thee… By William Wordsworth

  8. Ode to an Artichoke?

  9. Ode to an Artichoke Oh, you circular pile of thick monstrous leaves Filled with fibers of flavor too rich to deceive And amputating your naked thistles I start The lengthy journey of finding your heart

  10. Ode to an Artichoke My machete hand through thick jungle green Goes plunging and tearing to where I have been My muscles are weakening, my head’s in a daze Too late, I wake to humanity’s craze

  11. Ode to an Artichoke To conquer and reign, to be better than best To pass over answers in search of the test I’m tired of fighting for things out of reach Tomorrow, for lunch, I’m eatin’ a peach. By Rebecca St. George

  12. Writing your own Apostrophize WHS for KiYi

  13. Writing your own • Old venerable halls • Second home • Bastion of intellectual development • Democracy’s propagator • Attendance Center • Prison walls

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