1. addresses someone or something that is not present, especially in a rhetorical or dramatic way
Usage: literary; third person singular present tense

Examples

• The poet apostrophises the moon in the opening stanza.
• She apostrophises her deceased father throughout the memoir.
• The speaker apostrophises liberty as if it were a living person.
• In the play, Hamlet apostrophises death itself.
• The author apostrophises nature in this romantic verse.
• He apostrophises his homeland with deep emotion.