Shouting in a question
How do I express shouting in a question?
In a non-question sentence, I just put an exclamation mark at the end and/or use words like "shouted"/"yelled"/etc in the "said" tag and it feels fine. But what do you do for a question?
Example:
"How dare you?"
Should it be
"How dare you?!"
or
"How dare you!"
or something else?
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Your particular issue is that this is a rhetorical question. A real question is "Where is she?" or "How do I defuse the bomb?"
You can use italics, caps, and maybe bold, depending on what else you've used that formatting for. The ?! construction connotes a particular emotion, so I wouldn't throw it in for decoration.
Batman slammed the Joker up against the wall. "WHERE IS SHE?" he roared.
Sherlock looked up at John, frantic. "How do I defuse the bomb?"
"I don't know!"
"As you keep reminding everyone, you were a soldier!"
John flailed his hands. "I'm a doctor! I wasn't in bomb disposal!"
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