Expressive Punctuation: Semicolons

About Standards
Introduction
UNIVERSAL
Middle years and up
expressive punctuation
semicolons
expressing related ideas
linking devices
creating lists
grammar
expressive pauses
contrast
explanation
expansion
metaphor
simile
reinforcement
Purpose
Use semicolons to express relationship between ideas or to separate items in a list.
Description
This lesson uses extracts from Jeanette Walls' The Glass Castle and Alice Sebold's Lucky to illustrate ways of using semicolons to link related ideas.
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