Question

What effects can apostrophe have on a poem? Choose four answers.

It gives the speaker a voice.
It connects the reader to the speaker’s message.
It gives the poem a detached effect.
It makes an imagined addressee feel present.
It gives the poem a personalized effect.

Answer 1

Correct choices (four):

- It gives the speaker a voice.
- It connects the reader to the speaker’s message.
- It makes an imagined addressee feel present.
- It gives the poem a personalized effect.

Explanation: Apostrophe is a direct address to an absent or imagined person/thing, which makes the speaker more vocal and personal, creates immediacy that can draw the reader in, and makes the addressee seem present. It does not produce a detached effect.