Basic Trope: A sentence is broken up into multiple sentences to emphasize the words.
- Straight: Alice continuously asks Bob on a date. He stops her by saying, "I'm. Not. Going. Out. With. You!"
- Exaggerated: Ev! E! Ry! Sin! Gle! Syl! La! Ble! In! Bob's! Di! A! Logue! Is! Punc! Tu! A! Ted! For! Em! Pha! Sis!
- Downplayed: Bob only punctuates the last two words of his sentence.
- Justified:
- Bob has a speech impediment that causes him to speak in a slow, rhythmic fashion.
- It is the only way Bob can be heard.
- Inverted:
- Bob says an entire paragraph as one continuous sentence.
- Exaggerated Inversion: Bob says the entire paragraph as one overlong word.
- Subverted: Bob starts a sentence with punctuated words, then starts speaking normally.
- Double Subverted: Then he caps off his sentence with punctuated words.
- Parodied:
- Bob punctuates his sentence as if he is rapping to the background music.
- Bob's speech is transcribed as "I'm, not; going — (out) — with! You."
- Zig-Zagged: Every other word is punctuated.
- Averted: Bob times all his dialogue at a normal rate.
- Enforced: "How about Bob is a character who only knows how to talk in individual words."
- Lampshaded: "Nothing like making words into their own sentences to emphasise them, huh?"
- Invoked: "Could you say that a little more slowly?"
- Exploited: Alice holds Bob to his promises, which he can't cover up as a Freudian Slip.
- Defied: "I heard you the first time, Bob."
- Discussed: "Sometimes, I wonder why I have to talk so slowly to other people."
- Conversed: "At least we can understand what the guy's saying."
- Implied: Alice is talking to Bob on the phone. On a pause, she asks him to repeat what he said, and the next pause is noticeably longer than the last one.
- Played for Laughs: Bob tells his jokes like this, giving the other characters and audience more time to laugh.
- Played for Drama:
- People make fun of Bob for his habit of saying one-word sentences and he comes to feel ashamed.
- The harsh way Bob spoke to Alice damaged her feelings BADLY and begins to contemplate suicide because of this.
- Played for Horror:
- Bob gives people death threats one word at a time.
- When Bob punctuates otherwise innocuous sentences, he summons Eldritch Abominations.
Back! To! Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
