literary+terms.

A **hyphen** ( **-** ) is a [|punctuation] mark. It is used both to join [|words] and to separate [|syllables]. It is often confused with the [|dashes] ( **–**, **—**, **―** ), which are longer and have different functions, and with the [|minus sign] ( − ) which is also longer. The use of hyphens is called //hyphenation// In [|fiction] a plot is all the events in a [|story], particularly rendered towards the achievement of some particular [|artistic] or [|emotional] effect. In other words it's what mostly happened in the story. Such as the mood, characters, setting, and conflicts occurring in a story. An **exclamation mark** or **exclamation point** is a [|punctuation] mark: **!** It is usually used after an [|interjection] or [|exclamation] to indicate strong feelings or high volume, and generally marks the end of a sentence. A sentence ending in an exclamation mark is either an actual [|exclamation] ("Wow!", "Boo!"), a command ("Stop!"), or is intended to be astonishing in some way ("They were the footprints of a gigantic hound!").
 * comma** ( **,** ) is a [|punctuation] mark. It has the same shape as an [|apostrophe] or single closing [|quotation mark] in many typefaces, but it differs from them in being placed on the baseline of the text. Some [|typefaces] render it as a small line, slightly curved or straight, or as a small, filled-in number 9.