Category: Punctuation
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Long, Luxurious Sentences; The Use of Semi-Colons
Kurt Vonnegut may argue that semi-colons only prove that you’ve been to college, but apparently Virginia Woolf never got that message. Her prose is littered with the things. While the semi-colons are used with abandon, they do seem to serve a rhetorical purpose in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. Namely: There is always One More Thing.…