Italics and Quotation Marks Chapter 13 Punctuation Italics and Quotation Marks

Italics Italic letters slant to the right, like this. Indicate italic letters in writing or typing when italics are not available by underlining them. Helen Keller wrote The Story of My Life. italic letters are available italic letters are not available, therefore it’s underlined

Italics, continued Use italics (or underlining)for titles and subtitles of books, periodicals, long poems, plays, films, television series, long musical works and recordings, and works of art. I am reading John Knowles’s A Separate Peace. OR I am reading John Knowles’s A Separate Peace. My parents subscribe to The New York Times and the Atlantic. OR My parents subscribe to The New York Times and the Atlantic.

Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero Periodicals Type of Title Examples Books Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero Periodicals Seventeen, The New York Times Long Poems Evangeline, Beowulf Plays The Piano Lesson, King Lear Films Casablanca, Harvey Television Series 60Minutes, Home Improvement Long Musical works and recordings The Magical Flute, The Three Tenors, Dos Mundos Works of Art The Thinker, Birth of Venus NOTE: the words a, an, and the written before the title are italicized only when thy are part of the actual title.

Italics, continued Use underlining (or italics) for the names of ships, trains, aircraft, and spacecraft. Type of Name Examples Ships Titanic Queen Elizabeth 2 Trains Orient Express City of New Orleans Aircraft or Spacecraft Spirit of St. Louis Apollo 1

Italics, continued Use italics (or underlining) for words, letters, symbols, and numerals referred to as such. The word Mississippi has four s’s and four i’s. Use italics (or underlining) for foreign words that are not yet a part of the English vocabulary. The corrido, a fast-paced ballad, evolved from a musical form.

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