Personification vs. Apostrophe

Personificationnoun

A person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.

Personificationnoun

A literary device in which an inanimate object or an idea is given human qualities.

Personificationnoun

An artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human

Personificationnoun

The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment.

Personificationnoun

A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopop ia; as, the floods clap their hands.

Personificationnoun

a person who represents an abstract quality;

Personificationnoun

representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature

Personificationnoun

the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.

Personificationnoun

the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form

Personificationnoun

a figure intended to represent an abstract quality

Personificationnoun

a person or thing regarded as embodying a quality, concept, etc.

Apostrophenoun

(orthography) The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts.

Apostrophenoun

(rhetoric) A sudden exclamatory piece of dialogue addressed to someone or something, especially absent.

Apostrophenoun

A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of "Paradise Lost."

Apostrophenoun

The contraction of a word by the omission of a letter or letters, which omission is marked by the character ['] placed where the letter or letters would have been; as, call'd for called.

Apostrophenoun

The mark ['] used to denote that a word is contracted (as in ne'er for never, can't for can not), and as a sign of the possessive, singular and plural; as, a boy's hat, boys' hats. In the latter use it originally marked the omission of the letter e.

Apostrophenoun

address to an absent or imaginary person

Apostrophenoun

the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word

Apostrophe

The apostrophe (' or ’) is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet and some other alphabets. In English, it is used for four purposes: The marking of the omission of one or more letters, e.g.