Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
Verified for the 2027 exam
Verified for the 2027 exam•Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
Definition
The deliberate and purposeful choice of punctuation marks to clarify meaning, control pacing, and establish connections between ideas in support of an argument.
AP course connection
Topic 7.4: 7.4 Exploring how sentence development affects an argument