Question

Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

You sea! I resign myself to you also-I guess what you mean,

I behold from the beach your crooked inviting fingers,
I believe you refuse to go back without feeling of me,
We must have a turn together, I undress, hurry me out of
sight of the land,
Cushion me soft, rock me in billowy drowse,
Dash me with amorous wet, I can repay you.

In this excerpt from "Song of Myself," which literary device does Whitman use to address the sea? 

alliteration
allusion
apostrophe
onomatopoeia

Answer 1

The correct answer is apostrophe.


Hopefully that helps! c:

Answer 2

Whitman uses apostrophe to address the sea. Apostrophe is a rhetorical figure of addressing an unreal, imaginary, abstract, or non-living object or phenomenon as if it were a living being. Most often, it goes with an exclamation "O", but this excerpt from "Song of Myself" shows an effective use of apostrophe without an exclamation.