So imagine you’re reading a work of prose fiction or nonfiction, and then after the end of one section….

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Three (or sometimes two) asterisks or dots or other symbols serve to separate one section from another. In a typographical or editorial setting, what’s the word for that kind of break? Or for that use of an asterisk, etc? Is it a linear asterism, even if it’s three bullets or other symbols, rather than asterisks?

Topics: writing, language, books, printing, literature, typography, punctuation