For Apostrophe (Uh-pahs-truh-fee) we have a term and definition in Poetry.

Apostrophe (Uh-pahs-truh-fee) (Poetry)

A figure of speech in which an address is made to an absent or deceased person or a personified thing rhetorically, as in William Cowper's "Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk":
O solitude! Where are the charms
That sages have seen in thy face?
An apostrophe is also a punctuation mark used to indicate the omission of letter(s) in an elision.
Sidelight: When the poet addresses a muse or a god for inspiration, it is called an invocation.
(Compare Prosopopeia)

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