Italicize part of a word in fiction?
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I am wondering if I can or should take a bit of stylistic license and italicize just part of a word:
He took a sharp turn back into a side street, and collided hard with something that sent him sprawling to the ground. He scrambled to his feet as he realized that the it wasn’t something he had collided with, it was someone.
Maybe there is a better way to do this. Thoughts?
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Yep, works for me. You're reproducing a speech pattern in which part of the word is emphasized.
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