adjective
- of, relating to, or characteristic of an apostrophe (a direct address to someone absent or dead, or to a thing personified)
Usage: literary; rhetorical
Examples
- The poet used an apostrophic address to speak directly to the moon in the final stanza.
- Her apostrophic cry to the absent lover moved the audience to tears.
- The apostrophic technique allowed the speaker to invoke the spirit of the ancient hero.
- In that apostrophic moment, the narrator turned to address death itself as a character.
- The apostrophic device is common in Romantic poetry, where nature is often directly addressed.