Expressive Punctuation: Em dashes
About
Standards
Introduction
UNIVERSAL
Middle years and up
expressive punctuation
em dashes
parenthetical dashes
grammar
- 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.