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Vocabulary: Denotations and Connotations

Question 5 • ARC English 10 Semester 2 CR/Summer

Which line from the poem “To the Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window” illustrates apostrophe?

Answer
A
“I’ll not be patient! I will not lie still!”
B
“My eyes may follow but my feet are held.”
C
“The despot of our days and lord of dust”
D
“Oh, have you no rebellion in your bones?”

Explanation

Apostrophe is a figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses someone absent, dead, or not present as a listener. In “Oh, have you no rebellion in your bones?” the speaker addresses the dead people in the graveyard as “you,” so this line illustrates apostrophe. The other lines describe feelings or people without directly addressing them.

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