The Semicolon and the Colon - PoetryA semicolons is a punctuation mark to connect two related sentences. Also, use with a transition to connect two complete sentences similar in meaning.
A colon is a punctuation mark indicating that a writer is introducing a quotation or a list of items. A semicolon is like a comma in a compound sentence
A colon is more like saying "now here comes the list" Poetry is freer with punctuation, but you are holding you to the rules, so try to obey the guidelines you were given for the checklist Here's what I understand about a semicolon. If you have a sentence with a bunch of commas, because you have clauses, and then you want to make it compound, you would use the semicolon in place of the usual comma. Now I am going to write you an example sentence. My phone case was pink, and had touches of dark ink; it shine and cofine If you wanted to use a colon in the same line, you would develop a different sentence. My case cost an exhange of: a vase for a bookcase, shoe lace for a suit case and the first base for a thrid base |
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Why I chose this
I chose to make a poem because it was challenging, I'm not good at doing poems but it was funny and I learn different new words.