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 Blank

Italics are used to emphasize words, not separate them. Write down true or false.

Fill in the Blank

Which word should be italicized in the following sentence? The Spanish word for school is escula.

Multiple Choice

Black Panther (movie)

• underlining or italics

• nothing

• I don't know

• quotation marks

Fill in the Blank

Quotations or italics? The New York Times (the name of a newspaper)

Multiple Select

How is the quiz?

• hard

• confused

• no comment

• easy