Graphic. Punctuation
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Graphic
Punctuation
Understanding graphic is very important: pay attention to the size of letters, paragraphing and the location of lines, capital letters, and punctuation. Apostrophe is a figure of speech consisting of speech addressed to a person not present or to a thing. In dramatic works and in poetry it is often introduced by the word ‘O’ (not ‘oh’):
‘O grave, where is your victim?’
A whole word can be in the CAPITAL LETTERS as being very important: ‘WILL YOU BE QUIET!’ he shouted.
It is a writing English tradition to capitalize all the meaningful words in the titles of books ‘Three Men in a Boat, to Say Nothing of the Dog’
Nowadays it has become popular among modern writers to use only small letters in the titles in their own names:
‘under milk wood
(by) dylan thomas’
Italics is also very important and one should always pay attention to it during the analysis.
The combination of sound and graphic together make impression on the reader, as graphic conveys the pauses, rhythm, tone and so helps “inner reading”.
Usually graphic conveys the emotional colouring of the poem. Spelling is as important as punctuation. Punctuation serves to show the author’s attitude to the written.
? and ! show that the text is very emotional negatively or positively. ! often shows irony or irritation
The role of the hyphen is very important as it denotes emotional pauses: ‘Please, - not that!’ Emotional pauses are also shown by suspension marks ‘…’ which reflect different emotions of the heroes: embarrassment, confusion, hesitation, etc .A suspension mark before a word can denote that it is an important word and in that way the author draws attention to it. The row of three dots (…) - dot-dot-dot , or asterisks (***)–a suspension point indicate the intentional omission.
The absence of punctuation markers is magnificent, very often used by modern poet. Stylistic usage of the absence of punctuation markers is different with different authors: it may convey ‘stream of consciousness’, endless relations of times and cultures, events in the life of a person, endless movement.
