Writing Dialogue Questions

What is dialogue?

• Dialogue is long description in a story.

• Dialogue is one character speaking by himself/herself in a story.

• Dialogue is a conversation between two or more characters in a story.

• Dialogue is the setting of a story.

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CCSS.W.6.3B

How does dialogue help bring characters to life?

• Dialogue always reveals the emotions of characters.

• Dialogue always describes what characters look like.

• Dialogue always provides backstory for characters.

• Dialogue may reveal the personalities of characters through the way they speak to one another.

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CCSS.W.6.3B

Which of the following is the best reason to use dialogue in a story?

• To add information about characters while keeping the action moving

• To reveal backstory of all the characters

• To reveal emotions of all the characters

• To take up more space on the page

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CCSS.W.6.3B

What must a writer remember to do when writing dialogue?

• Dialogue always needs to end with an exclamation mark.

• When writing dialogue, the first letter of a quote does not need to be capitalized.

• When writing dialogue, the writer can choose whether or not to use quotation marks.

• Dialogue needs to open and close with quotation marks. The first word in the quote needs to be capitalized.

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CCSS.L.6.2A

CCSS.W.6.3B

Choose the correctly punctuated quote.

• Yes, I would love to go to the movies with you, Blake'" said Sarah

• Yes, I would love to go to the movies with you, Blake. said Sarah.

• "yes, I would love to go to the movies with you, Blake," said Sarah.

• "Yes, I would love to go to the movies with you, Blake," said Sarah.

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CCSS.W.6.3B