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SoPretentious wrote:


 * Using a period to end a remark, and identifying the speaker in the following sentence:
 * “Yeah, right.” She said in an optimistic, shy tone.

This is not correct. Unless it's an exclamation point or a question mark, dialogue like this should end in a comma. It should be:

"Yeah, right," she said in an optimist, shy tone.

I have never seen it done the way you showed in your example. Can you cite any source that says it's allowed? To double check, I've looked at a few websites (Glencore, Perdue's OWL) and there's nothing like that. I can check my AP style guide book sometime tomorrow, but I'm positive it's not correct.