What is it called when a narrator addresses an inanimate object or anything that cannot answer back?

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What is it called when a narrator addresses an inanimate object or anything that cannot answer back?

2007-10-06 08:53:21 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay

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Sounds like Hillary Clinton.

2007-10-06 09:01:31 · answer #1 · answered by The Voice of Reason 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋

A soliloquy.

(you can talk to an inanimate object ot to yourself for dramatic effect, to reveal the characters private thoughts - Shakespeare was a master of this)

2007-10-06 16:28:15 · answer #2 · answered by megalomaniac 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋

adressing?? I have on the tip of the tonge.....no no no wait

apostrophe!!!

the addressing of a usually absent person or a usually personified thing rhetorically

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/apostrophe

2007-10-06 15:58:01 · answer #3 · answered by cacahuatita 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋