Question

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. You sea! I resign myself to you also-I guess what you mean, I behold from the beach your crooked inviting fingers, I believe you refuse to go back without feeling of me, We must have a turn together, I undress, hurry me out of sight of the land, Cushion me soft, rock me in billowy drowse, Dash me with amorous wet, I can repay you. In this excerpt from "Song of Myself," which literary device does Whitman use to address the sea? alliteration allusion apostrophe onomatopoeia

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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...")