1. Italics and Quotation Marks
Chapter 13 Punctuation
Italics and Quotation Marks

2. 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

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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.

4. 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.

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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

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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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