Narrative Dialogue Quiz

Conversations carried on between characters in a piece of writing is called...

• Speaking

• Conflict

• Dialogue

• Rising Action

"I wish the circuit breaker were over!" Mimi _______.

• sniggered

• instructed

• chimed

• whined

Put __________________ around a speaker's exact words.

• commas

• speaker tags

• quotation marks

• An indent

_______________ the first word of a quotation and first word of each sentence.

• Indent

• Capitalize

• Underline

• Delete

Which sentence below uses quotation marks appropriately?

• "Which store do you want to go to?" asked Marie.

• Which store do you want to go to?" asked Marie.

• "Which store do you want to go to? asked Marie.

• Which store do you want to go to? asked Marie.

Is this sentence written correctly? 
While in class today, Miracle said, "when will will go outside?"

• correct

• incorrect

Choose the sentence with correct quotations and punctuation.

•  "rhonda said i love dogs?"

•  Rhonda said,  "i love dogs"

•  Rhonda said, "I love dogs."

• Rhonda said "I love dogs."

If you're writing prose that contains dialogue, when must you begin a new paragraph?

• whenever a different character begins speaking

• at the end of every sentence

• before every speech tag

• after every comma

When writing dialogue all punctuation marks at the end of the quotation go before the quotation marks

• True

• False

Speaker tags are added to dialogue to help the reader know who is speaking

• True

• False