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Apostrophe (Greek ἀποστροφή, ''apostrophé'', "turning away"; the final ''e'' being sounded)〔(Apostrophe | Define Apostrophe at Dictionary.com )〕 is an exclamatory figure of speech. It occurs when a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g. in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes absent from the scene. Often the addressee is a personified abstract quality or inanimate object. In dramatic works and poetry written in or translated into English, such a figure of speech is often introduced by the vocative exclamation "O". Poets may apostrophize a beloved, the Muse, God, love, time, or any other entity that can’t respond in reality. ==Examples== * "God deliver me from fools." English proverb * "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?" 1 Corinthians 15:55, Saint Paul of Tarsus *William Shakespeare * * "O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! / Thou art the ruins of the noblest man / That ever lived in the tide of times." ''Julius Caesar'', Act 3, Scene 1 * * "O God! God!" ''Hamlet'', Act 1, Scene 2 * * "Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee! I have thee not, and yet I see thee still." ''Macbeth'', Act 2, Scene 1 * *"O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die." ''Romeo and Juliet'', act 5, scene 3, 169-170). * "To what green altar, O mysterious priest, / Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies, / And all her silken flanks with garlands drest?" John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" * "O eloquent, just, and mighty Death!" Sir Walter Raleigh, ''A Historie of the World'' * "Roll on, thou dark and deep blue Ocean -- roll!" Lord Byron, "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" *"Thou glorious sun!" Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "This Lime Tree Bower" * "Death, be not proud, though some have called thee / Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so." John Donne, "Holy Sonnet X" * "And you, Eumaeus..." Homer, the ''Odyssey'' * "O My friends, there is no friend." Montaigne, originally attributed to Aristotle * "Ah Bartleby! Ah Humanity!" Herman Melville, "Bartleby, the Scrivener" * "O black night, nurse of the golden eyes!" Electra in Euripides' ''Electra'' (c. 410 BC, line 54), in the translation by David Kovacs (1998). * "Then come, sweet death, and rid me of this grief." (Isabel in ''Edward II'' by Christopher Marlowe) ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Apostrophe (figure of speech)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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