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    An apostrophe is a literary device that refers to addressing imaginary characters, objects, or absent/dead people as if they are present. It involves speaking directly to them. The document provides 4 examples from poems: 1) addressing one's motherland, 2) addressing a lamp, 3) addressing a legendary hero, 4) addressing one's motherland as "Ninay". An apostrophe allows the speaker to ask rhetorical questions or express inner thoughts and feelings to the addressed party.

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    An apostrophe is a literary device that refers to addressing imaginary characters, objects, or absent/dead people as if they are present. It involves speaking directly to them. The document provides 4 examples from poems: 1) addressing one's motherland, 2) addressing a lamp, 3) addressing a legendary hero, 4) addressing one's motherland as "Ninay". An apostrophe allows the speaker to ask rhetorical questions or express inner thoughts and feelings to the addressed party.

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    Literature 2

    Recognizing Apostrophes
    DepED PROMPTWhat is an apostrophe? How does it work in literature?
    ENTLT-I1-0-2.2.2:
    Explain the literary
    Read again the poem
    devices used.

    1. To whom is it
    "My Last Farewell.
    addressed?
    2. Is the addressee a
    person-one who can answer back?
    The addressee-Land that I love or the Philippines-cannot answer back
    LEARNING GOAL for it is an
    object.
    Identify Study the following examples:
    apostrophes
    in a poem.

    1. Hail, oh Motherland that I adore


    from "The Motherland" by Emilio Jacinto

    2. O lamp in the cold night,


    KEY CONCEPT You're like a star in the sky
    An apostrophe is from "Serenade," Author Unknown
    a literary device
    that refers to the 3.
    3. Immortal hero! Legendary colossus!
    use of imaginary
    Come from the abyss where you sleep the slumber of glory.
    characters the
    speaker in a literary from "To the National Hero" by Cecilio Apostol
    work speaks to as
    if the former were 4. Oh, my Ninay,
    around face-to- You are the clear fountain
    face.
    Which God looks into;
    In my very life
    You are the glory and the sun.
    "Ninay" by Pedro A. Paterno

    When you address an object, as though it were a person, you are using a
    See examples 1 and 2.
    figure of speech called apostrophe.
    You are also using the apostropne when you address the dead as if it were

    alive. See example 3.


    Another example of an apostrophe is when you address someone who is
    she were present. See example 4.
    absent as though he or
    Tn an apostrophe, the speaker asks a rhetorical question or unburdens his

    or her innermost thoughts and feelings.

    Lesson 6: Imbibing the Nationalistic Spirit 169

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