Which figure of speech is used in this text?
Milton! Thou shouldst be living at this hour
England hath need of thee . . .
—William Wordsworth, "London, 1802"
A: antithesis
B: apostrophe
The text uses apostrophe, a direct address to an absent person or a nonhuman entity.
Milton! is a direct address to Milton, an absent person. (John Milton was a British poet who died in 1674, over a century before this poem was written.)