Using Underlining and Quotation Marks

Using Underlining and Quotation Marks

Underline anything that should be in italics. Underline titles of l o n gpublications and written or musical works.

L o n gworks include the following: books periodicals newspapers long poems (book length) movies full-length plays TV series CDs radio series ballets operas symphonies

Examples: Steinbeck’s novel The Pearl the latest issue of Sports Illustrated the play Othello The Wall Street Journal (capitalize and underline the word the ONLY when is actually part of the title )

Underline foreign words that are not generally used in English. What does amor vincit omnia mean? (love conquers all things)

Underline letters, numbers, and words when they are used to represent themselves. Don’t forget to cross your t’s and dot your i’s.

Underline titles of paintings and sculptures. the Mona Lisa

Underline the names of airplanes, ships, trains, and spacecraft. the Challenger the Orient Express

Now you practice: practice 1: pg. 294 Extra practice: workbook pp. 295-296

Pg. 294 Robin Hood and His Mother on Their Way to Nottingham Fair. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ? Animal Farm and 1984 The Tragedy of Julius Caesar North American Review

The Stranger Sixty Minutes Lawrence of Arabia The Third Man Bolero Julius Caesar

Ceremony Laguna Woman: Poems Storyteller Almanac of the Dead Correct The Storyteller’s Voice

Use quotation marks for the “smaller parts” of a long work. chapters in a book In your textbook Earth Science, read the chapter “Atoms to Minerals” for homework.

Use quotation marks for the “smaller parts” of a long work. articles in a magazine Did you read the article “The Art of Winning” in U.S. News and World Report?

Use quotation marks for the “smaller parts” of a long work. short stories I would like to read the story “The Lottery” in class today.

Use quotation marks for the “smaller parts” of a long work. one-act plays Many critics believe that Tennessee Williams’ one act play “Summer at the Lake” was an early snapshot of his famous full-length play The Glass Menagerie.

Use quotation marks for the “smaller parts” of a long work. short poems I read Tennyson’s poem “The Charge of the Light Brigade” in the anthology Best Loved American Poems.

Use quotation marks for the “smaller parts” of a long work. songs Does anybody have the sheet music to the song “America the Beautiful”?

Use quotation marks for the “smaller parts” of a long work. episodes from a TV series One of my favorite episodes of The Cosby Show is “Vanessa’s Rich.”

Use quotation marks for the “smaller parts” of a long work. essays and compositions Most students know that Edgar Allan Poe wrote poems and short stories, but many do not realize that he also wrote a famous essay entitled “The Philosophy of Composition.”

Now you practice: handout: workbook pp. 300

Pg. 300 “Hooray for Hollywood” “How I Spent My Summer Vacation” “Ex-Basketball Player.” “Cooking with Bananas” ? “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”

6. “Koala Bears and Other Hazards,” “Life Down Under.” 7. “Auld Lang Syne.” 8. “School in Space?” 9. “Home,” “Abroad,” and “Return.” 10. “Heart! We will forget him!”

“Edgar Allan Poe and Greenland High School.” “The Pit and the Pendulum,” “The Pencil and the Ticking Clock.” “Gym,” “The Masque of the Red Death.” “The Lock on My Locker Is Broken” “The Gold Bug.” “The Fall of Greenland Greenhouse,” “The Fall of the House of Usher.”

Mixed Practice: 1. This book of Aesop’s fables contains such stories as “The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing” and “The Crow and the Pitcher.” 2. The most interesting chapter was the one entitled “Battles Fought in Foreign Lands.” 3. Auf Wiedersehen and arrivederci are foreign phrases that mean “good- bye.”

4. Edgar Lee Masters became famous for his book of poems called Spoon River Anthology. 5. The article entitled “Low Fares to Europe” attracted my attention. 6. We had to read the novel Watership Down for a book report last month.

7. I saw an article in Reader’s Digest entitled “I Am Joe’s Foot.” 8. The choir will sing “We Are the World” for its grand finale. 9. We will read the play Romeo and Juliet in the spring.

10. Whitney Houston remade Dolly Parton’s hit song “I Will Always Love You.” 11. Tomorrow’s history assignment is reading Chapter 9, “The Middle Ages in England.” Two of her favorite old-time movies are Foreign Correspondent and The Maltese Falcon.

13. In “Silent Snow, Secret Snow,” a short story by Conrad Aiken, a boy thinks he hears snow falling, but there is none. 14. According to my friend Arthur, Joseph and His Brothers, a novel by Thomas Mann, is based on Biblical legend. 15. My favorite aunt subscribes to The Wall Street Journal, a newspaper devoted to business and financial news.

Quotation Marks for Direct Quotes

Use quotation marks to enclose (surround) a direct quotation. Note 1: Use a comma to set off the introductory remarks or speaker tag. The comma and period always goes in front of the quotation marks. (But semicolons and colons go after the quotation marks.)

Quotation marks always come in pairs.

The Mexican American poet Marina de Bellagente wrote, “You cannot put a fence around the planet earth.” “I celebrate myself, and sing myself,”wrote Walt Whitman. “I never think of the future,” wrote Albert Einstein, “since it comes soon enough.”

Tom quoted a Cameroonian proverb, “By trying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree”; it reminded me of another saying about trying over and over until you succeed.

NOTICE THE DIFFERENCE (for question marks and exclamation marks): “What time is the game tomorrow?” Maria asked. Why did you shout, “It doesn’t matter”?

Practice: workbook pg. 297—298 1. “I am the king of the world !” shouted the child. 2. “Let’s visit the children’s museum,” suggested Marcela, “and we’ll be able to see the new robots they’ve added .” 3. Jerome said , “I think I may have solved the mystery” ; we waited for him to continue .

4. Don’t most children know the song that begins , “Mary had a little lamb” ? 5.“Is anyone in here ?” asked the visitor . “Would someone please answer ?” 6. “If you could buy a mountain ,” asked Andre , “ which mountain would you buy ?”

Note 2: When a person’s exact words are used, even when it isn’t a complete sentence, the words are put in quotation marks.

In other words, use quotation marks to enclose slang words, technical terms, and unusual uses of words. Examples: Tom thinks the movie is “for the birds.” Allen Ginsberg was a prominent poet of the “beat” generation. A “Lefty” is simply a left-handed person.

Do not use quotation marks in an indirect quotation. Direct: The teacher said, “You need to study for your test.” Indirect: The teacher said that we need to study for our test.

Practice with direct and indirect quotes (SATP workbook, pg. 363) : 1. Lillian asked, “Did Wes really paint the lines?” 2. Chey said that he would fly the airplane. 3. She replied, “I’m not ready yet. ” 4. He asked if he could borrow a hammer.

5. “I’m stuffing the pillow now,” I said. 6. “Were you,” Dad asked, “going to the dance?” 7. “It’s burning!” exclaimed Sue. 8. “Go into the garage,” Father answered.

9. Who said, “This is my favorite flower”? 10. “The play is about to begin,” the usher said. “Please take your seat.”

“I enjoyed reading ‘The Monkey’s Paw.’” Use single quotation marks around a quotation within a quotation. My instructor smiled and replied, “It was Caesar who said, ‘Cowards die many times before their deaths.’” Tip: Think of this as a quote inside a box. “The Monkey’s Paw” Tom said,

Now you practice : workbook pg. 301 (sentences on next slide) More practice: handout section (slide sentences after pg. 301)

Pg. 301—practice here I’m not sure she said who first said Remember the Alamo! Marion saidThen he said Stay away from that tree. I read in the newspaper Todd said that many teens enjoy mountain biking. Wasn’t it Sandrashe askedwho said I’ll remember to pick up the dessert. Akela said My favorite poem to read aloud is The Hollow Men.

Pg. 301 “I’m not sure,” she said, “who first said ‘Remember the Alamo!’ ” Marion said, “Then he said, ‘Stay away from that tree. ’ ” “I read in the newspaper,” Todd said,“that many teens enjoy mountain biking.” “Wasn’t it Sandra,”she asked, “who said,‘I’ll remember to pick up the dessert’?” 5. Akela said, “My favorite poem to read aloud is ‘The Hollow Men.’ ”

6. I heard Martha say that she wanted to go home before the game was over. 7. “Everything had its wonders , even darkness and silence,” wrote Helen Keller , who was blind and deaf from a young age .

8. Sam said, “I want to go see the movie Twilight tomorrow night.” 9. “My favorite movie is Steel Magnolias, ”said Sue. 10. Tom said, “I wrote my essay about the symbolism in Poe’s story ‘The Masque of the Red Death. ’ ”

Using Underlining and Quotation Marks