i dont rlly know this one but imma go for A or B
ANSWER: who tells the story
The literary device that Whitman uses to address the sea in this excerpt from "Song of Myself" is apostrophe.
According to the dictionary, apostrophe, aside from being a punctuation mark, is a literary device that consists of "the addressing of a usually absent person or a usually personified thing rhetorically" (Merriam-Webster.)
In this excerpt, Whitmant is clearly personifying the sea by adressing directly to it as a person ("You sea!") and as if it could understand what he is saying to it ("I resign myself to you...")
