Question

Quotation marks are a type of punctuation that can be used to indicate _____ or _____.

Answer 1

Answer:The answer for this is A. Seriousness; Importance

Explanation:

Quotation marks are used for several puposes such as nicknames, translations, measurements etc. One use is to give a word or a sentence a scary or serious meaning or to emphazise that the word is being used as aneuphemism or for terms used in an unusual way or for technical terms. For sarcasm  the proper use is of single quotation marks.

Answer 2

The correct answer is B. Sarcasm; Irony

Explanation:

In writing, quotation marks (") are used for multiple purposes such as quoting words different from the author's, emphasizing individual words or expressions or showing the reader a word, phrase or sentence that has an implicit meaning. This last use is related to sarcasm and irony as in both the author uses figurative or non-literal language to make a funny point and therefore by using quotation marks they indicate the reader a piece of text has an implicit or non-literal meaning. Thus, quotation marks are a type of punctuation that can be used to indicate sarcasm or irony.