Punctuated! For! Emphasis!/Literature

Examples of Punctuated! For! Emphasis! in Literature include:

Discworld

• Thud!: That! Is!! Not!!! My!!!! Cow!!!!! Those who haven't read the book will probably snicker. Those who have read the book will shiver.
• Maskerade: In opera, everyone!!!! Takes!!!! Such!!!! A!!!!! Long!!!!! Time!!!!! To!!!!!...
• Unseen Academicals: "Now. Will. You. Trust. Me?" and "Just. Someone. Who. Made. Clothes."
• Hogfather: And that leaves us with one final question. Have you been naughty... or... nice? Ho! Ho! Ho!
• Men at Arms: Silas Cumberbatch, a new recruit to the Watch, speaks this way. Justified in that he's a former town crier.
• Although Not With The Same Intensity, All Of The Golems Of Discworld Are Implied To Speak Like This All The Time.

Other works

• Num8ers by Rachael Ward: A somewhat surreal (and early; it happens in chapter 1!) example, in that it was a mother talking to her child.

"I don't need it, so just...bloody...shut...up."

• The Looking Glass Wars: Now off! With! Your! Head!
• Harry Potter: Molly Weasley to Bellatrix Lestrange, during the Final Battle:

"You -- will -- never -- touch -- our -- children -- again!" "NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH!!"

• • And in the fourth book when Hermione starts a PETA-style organization for house-elves and Ron is trying to talk Hermione out of it

"They. Like. It. They like being enslaved!"

• • Hagrid yelling at Uncle Vernon, right before giving Dudley a pig's tail?

"NEVER -- INSULT -- ALBUS -- DUMBLEDORE -- IN -- FRONT -- OF -- ME!"

• • HE! IS! NOT! DEAD!
  • THIS- HAS- SOMETHING- TO- DO- WITH- POTTER!!
  • YOU - COMPLETE - ARSE - RONALD - WEASLEY! YOU - CRAWL - BACK - HERE - AFTER - WEEKS - AND - WEEKS--!"
  • “EXPECTO PATRONUM!”
• In The Dresden Files: I. Am Not. Yoda. Since the main character who was saying that had exploded a rubbish bin out of sheer rage at his stubborn, mouthy, disobedient and at risk of the dark side, apprentice, who had just complained about an assignment, saying that Yoda would never have made anyone do that.
  • "Fuego. Pyrofuego! Burn!"
  • Also seen in the final battle in Changes, in a duel of wills between Kukulcan, the Red King, and Harry.

Kukulcan: Bow. Down. Mortal. Harry: Bite. Me. Asshole.

• The Chronicles of Nick book, Infinity had a comedic example less than four chapters in.

Death: Do. You. Want. A. Cookie?

• In Skybreaker: "Give. Me. The. Gun."
• You. Got. Food. In. My. Hair.
• Go. To. Hell.
• Remove. Your. Hands.
• Temple, by Matthew Reilly. Something like "GET. OFF. MY. BOAT." punctuated with punches.
• In Horus Rising. the last confirmed transition from the Blood Angels force on 140-20 was just This. World. Is. MURDER!
• In Paper Towns, by John Green. Margo says to Quentin, "I. Will. Miss. Hanging. Out. With. You."
• From 1635: The Cannon Law:

Frank Stone: I - WROTE - NO - SUCH - THING!

• • In 1635: A Parcel of Rogues, a variant happens a few times where most of the sentence flows normally, and only the last few words are this way.

Alex's heart sank. They'd shot the puir bloody dug. There were some things that just were. Just. Not. On.

• Happens a lot in Animorphs.
• I-AM-THE-QUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN!
• Not with punctuation marks, but toward the end of the second book of Taylor Anderson's Destroyermen series, the destroyer Walker tries towing a much larger ship to safety. That cuts their speed severely, the enemy's guns are getting the range, and they can't maneuver to dodge. The engineer tells the captain they don't have enough fuel, the Bosun tells the captain it's no use, and the captain says, "We Are Not Leaving Anyone Else Behind." Then the captain of the ship they're towing cuts the line to let Walker get away.
• From Metro 2033, when Artyom doesn't understand about Che Guevara:

'"Comrade. Ernesto. Che. Guevara." The commissar rapped the seperate syllables. "The great. Cuban. Revolutionary."'

• Tertius Fume from Septimus Heap:

'"Don't. Ever. Do. That. Again."'