Figurative Language: Apostrophe and Symbolism

You should now be able to "see" and "feel" how figurative language helps a poet create works. When poets address someone or something directly through a poem, it is called apostrophe. A symbol is something that stands for itself, but it also represents something beyond itself. In this topic, you examined both types of figurative language in poems by famous writers, while composing some you own original poetry using these techniques.