Personification- I'm not quite sure, but, "Is this a dagger which I see before me," appears to be personification. I could be wrong. Apostrophe- None, that I know of. Allusion- "I have thee not, and yet I see thee still." Hyperbole- "The handle toward my hand? Come. let me clutch thee:--"
Its actually apostrophe because apostrophe is a figure of speech in which the speaker or writer addresses an inanimate object or an abstract concept. In this case it refers to an inanimate object.
Summary of 'A Modest Proposal' He argues that children could be sold into a meat market as early as the age of one, giving poor families some much needed income, while sparing them the expenses of raising so many children.
