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Hello Dr. Ala Al-Ibrahim
Say it once more and I'll believe myself to be so!!
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Kindly excuse the delay. I can hardly find time to participate in my best section
Of course I do not blame you; I think once I said that everyone has their own business and there is no need for apologizing if we do not find free time to participate.
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The good news is that I've printed "The figures of speech" you mentioned and I read and studied till no 10 It's a great achievement for a poor translation student to do so, right
It is really great
Ok whenever you finish studying the figures you can post your answer to my first exam. I said that we can find at least 10 figures in quoted exam, but not all of them are explained in post No. 1.
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I'd like you to give us further explanation on no.4 "Apostrophe" Frankly I did not get it well. The rest of the 10 types are ok
With Pleasure
Simply, the word
Apostrophe is connected with the word
Addressing. Apostrophe occurs in two cases: 1- Either the poet
addresses AN ABSENT or dead person who isn't in front of him , or 2-
addressing a thing, place, idea, or an abstract quality as if they were capable of understanding. So in Apostrophe the poet seems to have a conversation with the addressee. I will give you more examples:
Once I quoted the following line in my topic of Literary Quotations, by the great poet John Donne :
Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so,Here, death as we know is not a human being; but rather it is a concept, or thing. The poet
speaks to it as if it is a real man. Notice that Donne uses 'thou' and 'thee' when he refers to
it. So we have apostrophe in these two lines.
Another example, from "Any Wife to Any Husband" by Browning:
My love, this is the bitterest, that thou
Who art all truth and who dost love me now
As thine eyes say, as thy voice breaks to say-etc.
Here there is apostrophe because the wife is addressing her husband.
Another example, a very very famous poem by Blake: "The Sick Rose"
O Rose, thou art sick!
The invisible worm
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm,
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy,
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.We have also apostrophe here; the poet treats the rose, regardless of what it represents, as a human being. He speaks to it as if it it can listen and understand him.
A Final example: in Wordswoth's LONDON 1812 :
Milton! Thou should'st be living at this hour . . .Wordsworth is addressing a dead person, Milton, so it is apostrophe.
Abeer, did you get the point now? If not I'm ready to offer tens of examples.
God Bless You, Sister!