"Nightfall! Nightfall!! You are my mortal enemy". The dominant figure of speech above is a/an________

Assessment: JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 2019 Subject: Literature In English

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"Nightfall! Nightfall!! You are my mortal enemy". The dominant figure of speech above is a/an________
Answer Details
Apostrophe is used to describe an absent person as if present and a dead person or subject matter and as if living, this should not be confused with personification. So the correct answer is Apostrophe because "Night fall" is directly addressed as if it were living being, this is a figurative quality of an Apostrophe.
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