Mnemonic Images for Punctuation Marks
1-minute read • Updated on
Does anyone else use images for memorizing punctuation? The poetry event was removed from the World Memory Championships but still exists in the USA Memory Championship.
Here are the images that I came up with:
| Data | Image |
|---|---|
| _ (underscore) | diving board |
| . | smooth, round black stone |
| ; | stone launching up a ramp |
| ? | poke cane in ground |
| ! | stone falling |
| ‘ (apos) | dandelion seed floating |
| , (comma) | dandelion flower |
| - (hyphen) | wooden board on edge |
| “” (double quote) | person making the “quotes” sign with his fingers |
| ‘’ (single quote) | hook dangling from above |
| italics | wind blowing from side |
| bold | negative image |
| CAPITALS | image on wooden platform |
| new line | police line |
| paragraph | fence |
| tab | image or locus jumps to side in earthquake |
With more complex poetry or text (like e.e. cummings) one might need more images.
