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"O Captain! my Captain!," a line addressing the assassinated President Lincoln, is an example of _____. apostrophe metonymy metaphor simile
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User: "O Captain! my Captain!," a line addressing the assassinated President Lincoln, is an example of _____. apostrophe metonymy metaphor simile

Weegy: A metonymy is a figure of speech used in rhetoric in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept.
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