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. Period (used at the end of a sentence and for abbreviations)- After the colour wheel was invented there was a huge revolution in art. , Comma (used to switch words around in a list)- The Mona Lisa had her own mailbox in the Louvre, since she would receive an endless amount of love letters. – Em Dash ( used as a visual representation to guide your readers to want you want them to see)- The inventor of the color wheel— Sir Issac Newton — used light refraction to sunlight to make his discovery. En Dash ( used to connect two words that are connected but don’t form compound words)- Leonardo da Vinci in 1519, at the age of 67-years-old. : Colon (used to indicate that whatever comes after it is related to the world that came before it)- Pablo Picasso was a huge animal lover and owned many pets: a monkey, a goat, an owl, a turtle, and packs of dogs and cats. ; Semi-colon (it means that you're connecting multiple independent clauses)- When the Mona Lisa was stolen Picasso was the main suspect; instead, it was revealed that the thief was Vincenzo Peruggia, a museum employee. ? Question mark (used to end interrogative sentences)- Did you know that art used to be an olympic sport? ! Exclamation mark (used to emphasize a sentence)- The artist Willard Wigan once inhaled his own artwork! ‘ Apostrophe (used in contraction words, to show possession, and used when quoting a quote in another quote)- Vincent Van Goghs’ painting, The Starry Night was painted in a psych ward. “” Quotation marks (when anything that is said comes from another source or person) Despite being a “Renaissance man,” Leonardo was a huge procrastinator and often left his work unfinished.
