• question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Irony punctuation is any form of notation proposed or used to denote irony or sarcasm in written text. Written text...
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  • exclamation mark Irony punctuation – Proposed form of notation used to denote irony or sarcasm in text List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks Terminal...
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  • Punctuation marks are marks indicating how a piece of written text should be read (silently or aloud) and, consequently, understood. The oldest known...
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  • indicators stemmed from the difficulty of denoting irony in print media, and so several irony punctuation marks were proposed. The percontation point (⸮;...
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    Auto-antonym Double standard Hypocrisy Ironism Irony punctuation Meta-communication Oxymoron Paradox Post-irony Abrams & Harpham 2008, p. 165. Preminger &...
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  • everything is a joke. Clarke's third law Godwin's law Irony punctuation List of eponymous laws Post-irony Tone indicator Poe, Nathan (August 11, 2005). "Big...
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  • exclamation mark ! (also known as exclamation point in American English) is a punctuation mark usually used after an interjection or exclamation to indicate strong...
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    University Hall', [Edinburgh] Dictated but not read Evidentiality Irony punctuation List of Latin phrases Qere and Ketiv Scare quotes viz. Garner, Bryan...
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    Sarcasm (category Irony)
    any standard accepted method to denote irony or sarcasm in written conversation, several forms of punctuation have been proposed. Among the oldest and...
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  • Scare quotes (category Punctuation)
    also used for literal and conventional quotes. Evidentiality Hedge Irony punctuation Quotation Sic Air quotes Boolos, George. Logic, Logic, and Logic....
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  • dissertation on irony by Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard Irony mark, a proposed punctuation mark Telba Irony, Brazilian statistician Irony display, see...
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  • talking marks, speech marks, quote marks, quotemarks or speechmarks, are punctuation marks placed on either side of a word or phrase in order to identify...
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  • (sometimes rendered as ?!, !?, ?!?, ?!!, !??, or !?!), is an unconventional punctuation mark intended to combine the functions of the question mark (also known...
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    virtual communication Henohenomoheji Hieroglyph iConji Internet slang Irony punctuation Kaoani List of emoticons Martian language Pixel art Smiley Tête à...
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  • Prosody displays elements of language that are not encoded by grammar, punctuation or choice of vocabulary. In the study of prosodic aspects of speech,...
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    Air quotes (category Punctuation)
    way to discredit or distance oneself from the other side’s words." Irony punctuation Wikimedia Commons has media related to Air quotes. Martin, Gary. "Air...
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  • sentence to denote irony in 1668. He was one of many, including Desiderius Erasmus, who felt there was a need for such a punctuation mark, but Wilkins'...
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  • Tsjeng (born 1988), Singaporean writer based in London Zing (punctuation) or irony punctuation, invented by English printer Henry Denham in the 1580s Zing...
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    Cummings's characteristic style, which lacks traditional orthography and punctuation. This poem uses an extended metaphor in favor of emotions by negatively...
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    metonymy as one of four "master tropes": metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony. He discusses them in particular ways in his book A Grammar of Motives....
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    first-person by an anonymous narrator often using jargon, broken grammar, and punctuation with a poetry-like structure. The narration shifts quickly between random...
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  • by the protagonist, Charlie Gordon. The style, grammar, spelling, and punctuation of these reports reflect changes in his mental and emotional growth....
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    the skull emoji as a symbol that represents humor or irony and believed that it became a punctuation mark. Comparing the emoji to a tone tag, he wrote:...
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    popular element of Internet slang, which can be used to indicate amusement, irony, or double meanings. It was first used almost exclusively on Usenet, but...
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    he called "extra emotional typographic characters" (including an irony punctuation) which may be considered precursors to present-day emoticons and emojis...
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    orthography). He also proposed six new "points d’intonation" (punctuation marks): Bazin's proposed punctuation marks from Plumons l’Oiseau (1966) Example: Jour, poems...
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    person. The approach may include communicating a sense of playfulness, irony, or by using double entendres. The origin of the word "flirt" is unknown...
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    and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation. Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality (two recurring...
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    past, present, and future occurs. Asynchronous sound can serve to create irony between sound and image, to satirize and parody dramatic situations, and...
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  • Tilde (category Punctuation)
    including ⟨ã d̃ ẽ ĩ l̃ ñ õ s̃ t̃ ũ x̃⟩. The tilde is used in various ways in punctuation, including: In some languages (such as in French),[citation needed] a...
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