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The apostrophe It is a rhetorical figure in which a speech, dialogue or narrative is briefly broken into, to invoke imaginary or real characters. With this resource you try to capture the attention of the receiver and convey a feeling, idea or thought.
For example:
Oh sad dark clouds
how hard you walk, get me out of these sadness
and take me to the honduras
from the sea where are you going!
(Gil Vicente, Rubena's comedy).
In general, the second person is used in the apostrophe and, on some occasions, it consists of an “acclamation towards nothingness”. In addition, this figure is usually accompanied by exclamation or question marks.
As the objective of this resource is to capture the attention of the person who is exposed to the message, it is usually used in speeches that are made to be transmitted orally, such as the script of a play. It is also a widely used resource in poetry.
This literary figure was very recurrent in the plays of Ancient Greece, in which the characters pronounced the plays with their backs to the public.
- It can help you: Lyrical poems
Examples of apostrophe
- Oh virtuous, magnificent war!
In you the complaints were due,
in you do our dying lived
for glory in heaven and fame on earth,
in you the cruel spear never errs
nin is afraid of the blood shed from relatives;
revoke concordes to you our people
of such desires and so much desferra.(Juan de Mena, Labyrinth of Fortuna)
- Oh night that you led!
Oh night, more lovely than the dawn!
Oh night that you put together, Beloved with beloved,
loved into the Beloved transformed!(Saint John of the Cross, Dark night)
- LifetimeWhat can i give you
to my God who lives in me,
if it is not losing you
to better enjoy Him?(Saint Teresa of Jesus, I live without living in my)
- After, Oh flower of Hysteria!you cried and laughed;
your kisses and your tears I had in my mouth;
your laughs, your fragrances, your complaints were mine.(Ruben Dario, Daisy flower)
- Come, gentle night, tender and gloomy night,
give me my Romeo and when I die,
cut it into a thousand tiny stars:
the sky will look so beautiful
that the world, in love with the night,
will stop worshiping the hurtful sun.(William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet).
- Giant waves that you break roaring
on the deserted and remote beaches,
wrapped in foam sheets,
Take me with you!(Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, Rhyme LII).
- And she appeared naked all ...
Oh passion of my life, poetry
naked, mine forever!(Juan Ramón Jiménez, Came, first, pure).
- Oh sweet garments for my evil found,
sweet and happy when God wanted,
together you are in my memory
and with her in my death conjured!(Garcilaso de la Vega, Sonnet X)
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