Dialogue Practice Quiz

What should be used to indicate spoken word in dialogue?

• Quotation marks
• Parentheses
• Brackets
• Single quotes

Where should dialogue tags (like she says) be placed in relation to quotation marks?

• After the dialogue
• Before the dialogue
• Outside the quotation marks
• Inside the quotation marks

When using ellipses in dialogue, should additional punctuation be added?

• Yes, add a comma
• No, no additional punctuation
• Add an exclamation mark
• Add a question mark

How should long speeches be formatted in dialogue?

• No new paragraphs needed
• Quotation marks only at the end
• Quotation marks at the beginning of each paragraph
• No quotation marks

When quoting something within the dialogue, what type of quotation marks should be used?

• Double quotes
• No quotes needed
• Italics
• Single quotes

What should be done to indicate a new speaker in dialogue?

• Use bold text
• Start a new paragraph
• Use underlining
• Use italics

What should be done if an action occurs before or after the lines of dialogue?

• Combine it with the dialogue
• Ignore it
• Give it its own sentence
• Include it in the dialogue

What do em dashes (-) indicate in dialogue?

• Pause
• End of sentence
• Interruption
• Continuation

What is the purpose of ellipses in dialogue?

• To indicate shouting
• To indicate a question
• To indicate the end of dialogue
• To indicate the trailing off of dialogue