ENG1105 Dialogue Qs

Do commas and periods go inside or outside quotation marks?

Inside

Which is enclosed in quotation marks: thoughts or interior monologue? Thoughts or Interior monologue?

Interior monologue

Do colons and semicolons go inside or outside quotation marks?

Outside

You may include sentence fragments in dialogue. True or false?

True

You should start a new paragraph each time a new character speaks. True or False?

True

When using a dialogue tag, the speaker's words are set off not only with quotation marks, but also with a... (e.g. What is missing? She said "I must speak to Parker immediately!") a. Nothing is missing; there is nothing but quotation marks to be used. b. Comma c. Colon d. Parentheses

b. Comma

Dialogue is... a. unnecessary to move the story along. b. conversation. c. indirect speech. d. someone's thoughts.

b. conversation.

Which of the following is correctly punctuated? a. "We have some power left," she said "in these blasters." b. "We have some power left": she said, "in these blasters." c. "We have some power left," she said, "in these blasters." d. "We have some power left" she said: "in these blasters."

c. "We have some power left," she said, "in these blasters."

Which of the following is correctly punctuated? a. She loudly exclaimed "Please kill that green Yoda-looking creature in my bathroom!" b. She loudly exclaimed, "Please kill that green Yoda-looking creature in my bathroom"! c. "She loudly exclaimed 'Please kill that green Yoda-looking creature in my bathroom!'" d. She loudly exclaimed, "Please kill that green Yoda-looking creature in my bathroom!"

d. She loudly exclaimed, "Please kill that green Yoda-looking creature in my bathroom!"

Which of the following is not a characteristic of good dialogue? a. Relies heavily on inaccurate punctuation, disregarding proper uses of commas, end marks and apostrophes. b. Uses dialogue tags like "he yelled" to allow readers to "hear" the words in the context of the situation. c. Shows the speaker's exact words by enclosing them in quotation marks. d. Shows a change in speaker by a change in paragraphing.

a. Relies heavily on inaccurate punctuation, disregarding proper uses of commas, end marks and apostrophes.