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English Grammar Quiz 0 pts · 🔥0 · 0

In William Shakespeare's *Macbeth*, the protagonist has a vision and speaks directly to a weapon, saying, "Is this a dagger which I see before me... Come, let me clutch thee." What is the grammatical and rhetorical term for addressing an inanimate object or an absent person as if it were present and able to respond?

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