Expressive Punctuation: Em dashes
Lesson
Expressive Punctuation: Em dashes
11 pages
- Purpose
- Use em dashes as a piece of expressive punctuation.
- Description
- This lesson is an introduction to parenthetical dashes (em dashes). We talk briefly about the differences between three types of dash, and then use a series of snippets from Jeanette Walls' The Glass Castle to look at the effects we can create using em dashes in narrative.
- Lesson type
- Introduction
- Genre / Topic
- Universal