Apostrophe

//__Apostrophe/Authorial Intrusion __//


 * Definition:: ** the addressing of a usually absent person or a usually personified thing rhetorically

First Known Use: 1533
 * Origin:: **Latin, from Greek //apostrophē,// literally, act of turning away, from //apostrephein// to turn away, from //apo-// + //strephein// to turn


 * See also:: ** personification

Definition taken from merriam-webster.com

> (James Joyce, //A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man//) (Grammar.about.com)
 * Internet Example: **
 * "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."

(AA)