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(rhetoric) {n}
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Definition:A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present;Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)---A sudden exclamatory piece of dialogue addressed to someone or something, especially absent.text from Wiktionary. licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
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"[...] You need adventure! - and I'm talking about real adventure, not fraternity formals."
he became more and more fervent in his exhortations, to the point where he began gesturing for emphasis, and his glasses fell off and he tried to put them back on properly, that that interrupted the flow, the beat, of his apostrophe, so he held them in his hand.
Tom Wolfe. I am Charlotte Simmons, p.567 (2004)
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Unluckily we were soon disturbed. The door was suddenly burst open, and a man, shrouded to the eyes in a brown cloak, entered the room, apostrophizing the gipsy in anything but gentle terms.Prosper Merimee. Carmen (Mary Loyd translation)
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At first she solaced herself by allusions that Charles did not understand, then by casual observations that he let pass for fear of a storm, finally by open apostrophes to which he knew not what to answer.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary.
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"Ah! poultry, poultry! You little thought," said Mr. Pumblechook, apostrophizing the fowl in the dish, "when you was a young fledgling, what was in store for you. [...]"
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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“How provoking!” exclaimed Miss Ingram: “you tiresome monkey!” (apostrophising Adèle), “who perched you up in the window to give false intelligence?” and she cast on me an angry glance, as if I were in fault.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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For in his later books, if he had hit upon some great truth, or upon the name of an historic cathedral, he would break off his narrative, and in an invocation, an apostrophe, a lengthy prayer, would give a free outlet to that effluence which, in the earlier volumes, remained buried beneath the form of his prose,
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] (1913).
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