ITALICS, UNDERLINING, QUOTATION MARKS WORKSHEET

Directions: Identify which parts of the sentences below need to be italicized or put in quotation marks. (It might be easier just to underline words that should be italicized – remember that underlining and italicizing are interchangeable.)

1. Because they pulled the song Peace Train from later printings, you won’t find it on most copies of

the 10,000 Maniacs’ album In My Tribe.

2. I’ve always ended my Children’s Literature course by reading Philip Pullman’s novel The Golden

Compass and Richard Wilbur’s poem The Reader.

3. I didn’t want to waste $9 on a movie ticket for Fuzzy Bunnies IV, but my four-year-old cousin

insisted that it got a really good review in the magazine Fluffy Animals Monthly.

4. I don’t think your plan to anthologize poems such as The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock in a

book called Poems That Rock is a good idea.

5. Melville’s great novel Moby-Dick is about the adventures of Captain Ahab’s ship, the Pequod, and

a white whale with a really, really bad attitude.

6. On the other hand, the whale on the cover of Moby Grape’s greatest hits album, Legendary Grape,

isn’t white and seems much more peaceful.

7. And then there’s John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath, which has nothing whatsoever to

do with whales, as it’s set mostly in Oklahoma.

8. The Chicago Tribune’s review of the film Superman Returns is titled Super Serious.