This document defines and provides examples of two rhetorical devices: apostrophe and paronomasia. Apostrophe involves directly addressing someone absent such as an inanimate object. The example given is Mark Antony's famous line "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears" from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Paronomasia involves a play on words, either through different meanings of the same word or similar sounding words. The example is a line from a John Donne hymn that plays on the words "done" and "Son".

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4. Breaking off discourse to
address some absent person
or thing, some abstract
quality, an inanimate, or a
nonexistent character.

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11. “Friends, Romans,
countrymen, lend me your
ears.”

12. A play on words,
sometimes on different
senses of the same word
and sometimes on the
similar sense or sound of
different words.

13. “When Thou hast done, Thou hast
not done for I have more.
That at my death Thy Son / Shall
shine as he shines now, and
heretofore
And having done that, Thou hast
done;
I fear no more.”
---John Donne’s (A Hymn to
God the Father)

14. Thank You !!!
and
GOD BLESS !