Stylistic device Similar to 'personification' but direct. The speaker addresses someone absent or dead, or addresses an inanimate or abstract object as if it were human. This is when the name of a character has a symbolic meaning. For example, in Dickens' "Great Expectations", Miss Havisham has a sham, or lives a life full of pretense. In Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter", Rev. Dimmesdale metaphorically fades away (dims) as the novel progresses, while Chillingworth has a cold (chilled) heart. A symbol may be an object, a person, a situation, an action, a word, or an idea that has literal meaning in the story
Does Anybody Miss Me tunes. The title track "Does Anybody Miss Me" was issued as a single in the UK, backed with the non album track "Fa Fa Fa", but this failed to make any impression on the chart. "Does Anybody Miss Me" has remained part of her live show and was recorded as the opening track of the album "Live At Talk Of The Town" in 1970. This album saw Bassey re-record her 1958 UK #1 hit single "As I Love You" which she had previously released on the Philips label. Also issued in the US as "Does Anybody Miss Me" there the