What is the effect of the author's use of apostrophe in the poem "85"?

It creates a detached effect between the readers and the author.

It engages readers by addressing someone unknown.

It causes the readers to imagine a future event.

It engages readers by addressing them directly.

The correct option is D) It engages readers by addressing them directly.

Explanation:

Apostrophe is a figure of speech in which the author of a poem speaks directly to someone who is not there, someone who is dead, or an inanimate object. In poem 85, the apostrophe is highlighted below:

I hate and I love. Wherefore I do this, perhaps you ask.

I do not know, but I feel it being done and I am tormented.

Readers feel as if they are the ones being addressed by the speaker, as if they are the ones who asked such question and now the author is giving them the answer they were seeking. Thus, readers become engaged by the question.

The effect of the author's use of apostrophe in the poem "85" is that It engages readers by addressing them directly

Explanation:

The writers use the literary device, apostrophe, to address not ordinary subjects, this could be a subject that is present or not in the scene, it doesn't need to be a person, it could be any inanimate object, then through this the reader feels more interested in knowing what will happen with those interactions.