Italics vs Quotation Marks

Imagine (song)

• Underline/Italics

• Quotation Marks

The Tell Tale Heart (Short story)

• Underline/Italics

• Quotation Marks

The Boy Who Lived (book chapter)

• Underline/Italics

• Quotation Marks

In the following sentence, what words should have quotes around them, and what words should be underlined/italicized?

The television series The Big Bang Theory is almost as popular as Michael Jackson's Bad.

• Underline/italicize The Big Bang Theory

• Put quotes around Bad

• Underline/italicize The Big Bang Theory, and put quotes around Bad

• no change

In the following sentence, what words should have quotes around them, and what words should be underlined/italicized?
My mom went to see the play Our Town, but I stayed home and watched Jurassic Park.

• Put quotes around Our Town

• Put quotes around Our Town and Jurassic Park

• Underline/italicize Our Town and Jurassic Park

• no change

In the following sentence, what words should have quotes around them, and what words should be underlined/italicized?
The teacher told us to read the entire chapter titled The Sorrow of the Civil War.

• Underline/italicize The Sorrow of the Civil War.

• Put quotes around The Sorrow of the Civil War

• no change

In the following sentence, what words should have quotes around them, and what words should be underlined/italicized? The novel Pride and Prejudice is often compared to the movie adaptation.

• A) Underline/italicize Pride and Prejudice

• B) Put quotes around Pride and Prejudice

• C) Underline/italicize the movie adaptation

• D) no change

Which of the following titles should be italicized in a sentence?

• A) A short story

• B) A poem

• C) A book

• D) A chapter

In the sentence, 'The article titled The Rise of AI was fascinating,' what should be done to the title?

• A) Underline/italicize The Rise of AI

• B) Put quotes around The Rise of AI

• C) no change

• D) Underline/italicize fascinating

When quoting a character's dialogue from a book, what punctuation should be used?

• A) Italics

• B) Quotation marks

• C) Underlining

• D) Parentheses