Apostrophe (figure of Speech) - Examples

Examples

  • "Where, O death, is thy sting? where, O death, thy victory?" 1 Corinthians 15:55, (Saint) Paul of Tarsus
  • "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." Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 1
  • "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." Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 1
  • "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"
  • "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..." the Odyssey
  • "O My friends, there is no friend." Montaigne, originally attributed to Aristotle
  • "Ah Bartleby! Ah Humanity!", from Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville
  • "O black night, nurse of the golden eyes!" Electra in Euripides' Electra (c. 410 BCE, line 54), in the translation by David Kovacs (1998).
  • "Then come, sweet death, and rid me of this grief."
  • "O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die." Romeo and Juliet (V, iii, 169-170).

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