'An address to someone absent or something abstract as if the person or the thing were present' is called -

• Apostrophe: (সম্বোধন অলঙ্কার)
- An address to someone absent or something abstract as if the person or the thing were present.
- অর্থাৎ, অনুপস্থিত কোনো ব্যাক্তি বা বস্তুকে সম্বোধন করে তারঁ উদ্দেশ্যে কিছু বলা।
- By using an apostrophe, a speaker turns from the audience to address a single person or thing.
- এটা এক ধরনের Personification ।
- এখানে লেখক প্রানহীন, নির্জীব বস্তুকে ব্যক্তিরুপে কিংবা অনুপস্থিত ব্যক্তিকে উপস্থিত ব্যক্তিরুপে সম্বোধন করেন।
- In other words, the addressing of a usually absent person or a usually personified thing rhetorically.

Example:
• "O wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?"
- This is an example of a literary device named - Apostrophe.

• অন্য অপশনগুলোর মধ্যে -
• Anaphora - Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginnings of two or more successive verse lines, clauses, or more successive verse lines, clauses or sentences.
• Connotation - The direct meaning of a word.
• Conceit - Comparison between two far-fetched objects of different kinds.

Source: An ABC of English Literature by Professor M Mofizar Rahman