What is it called when a poet directly addresses a person or thing that cannot respond?
a.
personification
b.
metaphor
c.
apostrophe
d.
assonance

The correct answer is C. apostrophe.

Apostrophe is a figure of speech in which an author (usually a poet, but sometimes a writer as well), refers to someone who is not present, and talks to them, invokes them, but they cannot respond (as they are not there).

Personification is when non-human entities/objects have human characteristics; metaphor is a symbolical comparison; assonance is when vowels in neighboring words are repeated.

the right answer is C

elise is writing a literary analysis of a biographical essay about emily dickinson.

which of the following should elise use in order to provide a strong claim statement in the introduction to her analysis?

a.  

“a life apart” by julia golding maintains that emily dickenson wrote over a thousand poems during her life.