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Quotation Marks or Italics?

Quotation Marks or Italics?. Can you identify the rules??? An English 1050 presentation. Quotation Marks. Quotation marks are used to enclose direct quotations. For example, look at the following sentences: He declared, “I have never seen a lobster that huge!”

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Quotation Marks or Italics?

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  1. Quotation Marks or Italics? Can you identify the rules??? An English 1050 presentation

  2. Quotation Marks • Quotation marks are used to enclose direct quotations. • For example, look at the following sentences: • He declared, “I have never seen a lobster that huge!” • Marx writes for “working-men of all countries [to] unite,” thus completing his manifesto (39). • Does Bonnie always declare, “I love The Office”? • I call the year 1999 “The Year I Grew Up”; my sister always thinks of it differently.

  3. Quotation Marks • You also use quotation marks when citing a small part of a larger work (a chapter from a book, an article from a magazine, a song from a CD, an episode from a TV show) • My sister would always quote the chapter “A Scream in the Night” from Little House on the Prairie. • My favorite Friends episode is “The One With the Rumor” (you know, the one with Brad Pitt).

  4. Tips to Remember • Periods and commas are always placed within the quotation marks. Semi-colons and colons come outside the quotation marks. • She said, “Check outside”; when I followed her directions, I noticed it was snowing. • He declared, “It’s not raining,” but none of us believed him.

  5. Tips to Remember • Question marks and exclamation points depend on the nature of the sentence. • He asked, “Are you coming to the festival?” • Are you sure he said, “It’s snowing”? • Scare quotes are the individual marks placed within quotation marks. • She said, “Did he really declare, ‘I saw that movie’ when I know he was at home studying?” • I gasped, “I just love ‘Poker Face’! It’s my favorite song.”

  6. Italics • You use italics to denote a title of a larger work: a book, TV show, music album, periodical/journal/magazine, film, play… • I went and saw The Nutcracker performed by the Milwaukee Symphony and Ballet last night. • I read Heart of Darkness just a few weeks ago. • The show Glee is a personal favorite of mine. • Composition Studies is a great resource for teaching English 1050.

  7. Italics, cont.d • You may also use italics to denote a word of foreign origin, when you refer to the word itself and its meaning in a sentence, or for emphasis in your writing or speaking. • Her joie de vivre was palpable. • I believe that blingis a slang term for jewelry, while grills refer specifically to the teeth. • That’s the point! I don’t want an iPod—I need it for my commute!

  8. Tips to Remember • When writing with pencil and paper, you may underline the word you wish to italicize on the computer. • In your works cited page, MLA no longer recognizes underlining as a substitute for italics.

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