i like to call them emphatic ellipses.
I believe the proper phonetic pronunciation for an exclamation point is, "EEEEEEEEEE - pop!"
(Dr. Demento used to air a routine by some Brit comedian - I believe - who would vocalize the punctuation marks in a particularly banal piece of contemporary literature).
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