a·pos·tro·phe 2 
(ə-pŏstrə-fē)
(ə-pŏstrə-fē)n.
The direct address of an absent or imaginary person or of a personified abstraction, especially as a digression in the course of a speech or composition.
[Late Latin apostrophē, from Greek, from apostrephein, to turn away; see APOSTROPHE1.]
ap′os·trophic (ăp′ə-strŏfĭk) adj.