Assertion: apostrophe | /r/HasProperty | rhetorical term
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text: Before apostrophe referred to a squiggle on the page, it was a rhetorical term for an address to a usually absent person or a usually personified thing (the word comes from the Greek apostrophē, which literally means “the act of turning away”).
text: Apostrophe, a rhetorical device by which a speaker turns from the audience as a whole to address a single person or thing.