You said it, Scarlett protested. You pig . Hey, Rhett said. Scarlett protested, I didn t. Commonly used in place of parentheses, colons, and semicolons in fiction, dashes are used primarily in narrative.
Ellipses primarily appear in dialogue.
Within a sentence, do not use any spaces before, within, or following the ellipses. Otherwise, do not. She said, You pig. Don t use quotation marks. If the majority of the thought is underlined, show stress by omitting the underline.