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Italics and Quotations with Titles -

Exercise 1

Each sentence below contains one or more titles. Indicate whether each title should be written in italics or put inside quotation marks by clicking the appropriate button after each phrase.

When you are finished, click on the "Check My Work" button at the bottom of the page.

1. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story The Yellow Wallpaper (italics quotation marks) is featured in many college anthologies.

2. The Naval Chronicle (italics quotation marks) features many elegiac poems such as The Death of Nelson (italics quotation marks).

3. When Leonardo Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa (italics quotation marks), he probably had no idea how famous her mysterious smile would become.

4. The London Times (italics quotation marks) front page displays a picture of a wanted criminal with the heading Mass Murderer Still Runs Loose (italics quotation marks).

5. That Thing You Do (italics quotation marks) was a popular movie based on the popular song That Thing You Do (italics quotation marks).

6. A seventh grade science text book includes the article My Bare Bones (italics quotation marks) in the Human Anatomy (italics quotation marks) chapter.

7. Vanity Fair (italics quotation marks), a chic magazine, has much competition but no equal.

8. Lord Byron's mock epic poem Don Juan (italics quotation marks) is one of his greatest and most entertaining works.

9. I've seen West Side Story (italics quotation marks) on Broadway countless times; I can't get enough of Tony's famous song Maria (italics quotation marks).

10. The H.M.S. Victory (italics quotation marks) sailed the English Channel in the eighteenth century.