Why is punctuation important? Writing without punctuation is like living life without breaks and pauses. A small mark with ...

When you concatenate text, you surround the text with double quotation marks so Microsoft Excel recognizes it as text. Otherwise, you'll receive an error. Excel then ...

Like simile, metaphor, personification and hyperbole, irony is a very useful figure of speech. Writers and other creative workers regularly make use of it, including comedians. It can, however ...

Ebert argued that Tarantino may have been speaking to the idea that, in the ’90s, the existential question of what people do with their lives had largely been replaced by irony, meaning, “Everything ...

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Let’s explore the three main types of irony, the ways they differ, and how they’re used to tell great stories. Irony occurs when there’s a contrast between appearance and reality ...

Austin Duffy does not believe in quotation marks. Not once in the 304 pages of his latest book, “Cross,” does Duffy attribute a quote to its speaker, instead relying on em-dashes and spaces ...

In the early 1970's, the world economic crisis began to hit Nicaragua. According to statistics quoted by Henri Weber in Nicaragua: The Sandinista Revolution, the rate of inflation rose from an annual ...

My copy editor would call them scare quotes—quotation marks placed around a word or phrase to draw attention to it. They often suggest doubt and a sense of irony or distance between the writer and the ...

Remember that the AP Style Guide is our definitive source (we will only occasionally deviate from it) Proper Use of Quotation Marks IRONY: Put quotation marks around a word or words used in an ...

The Associated Press Stylebook released guidance on social media advising publishers to put the word "woke" in quotation marks due to the word's "derogatory" use by conservatives. "A slang term ...