Titles in Italics and Quotations

​Italics examples

​Great Expectations [book]

Gone with the Wind [film]

Romeo and Juliet [play]

Starry Night [painting]

Nova [television series]

Grand Canyon Suite [musical work]

​Titles of full works like books or newspapers should be italicized.

​Italics with Words and Other Items Used to Represent Themselves

Italicize (underline) words, letters, and numerals used to represent

themselves.

Do not start a sentence with and or but.

Example : She was too superstitious to say the number aloud, so she

handed the elevator operator a piece of paper on which she

had written 13

Multiple Choice

What is Italics with title mean?

• is a word or phrase that connects words, phrases, clauses, and sentences together.

• a particular item or object.

• is a verb that follows a common pattern of conjugation. The past tense of a regular verb is formed by adding an 'ed' or 'd' to the root verb and the past participle form of the verb is the same as its past form.

• titles of books, lengthy poems, plays, films and television

  series, paintings and sculptures, and long musical compositions.

Multiple Choice

Find Italics title in the box.

• cat and dog

• sport

• tacobell

• Spirit of St. Louis

  (airplane)

Multiple Choice

Italics (underline) and capitalize (a , an , the) written at the beginning of a story title only when they are are part of the title itself.

• The Red Badge of Courage

• light in the attic

• national graphics

• chicago

Multiple Choice

Which word should be italicized in the following sentence?

Homeo sapins is our species' name.

• species

• name

• Homeo Sapins

• our

Fill in the Blanks

Fill in the Blanks

Multiple Choice

Black Panther (movie)

• underlining or italics

• nothing

• I don't know

• quotation marks

Fill in the Blanks

Multiple Select

How is the quiz?

• hard

• confused

• no comment

• easy