Capitalizing Titles
Capitalization
Here's The Idea
Use quotation marks and italics correctly in titles to show what kind of work or selection you are writing about.
Quotation Marks
- Use quotation marks to set off the titles of short work
Quotation Marks for Titles
Book Chapter "The Dream" from Dogsong
Short story "Flowers and Freckle Cream"
Essay "Bringing Home the Prairie"
Article "Home on an Icy Planet"
Song "The Star-Spangled Banner"
Poem " Analysis of Baseball"
Italics and Underlining
- Use italics for titles of longer works and for the names of ships, trains, spacecrafts, and airplanes ( but not the type of plane). In handwriting,you show that something should be in italic type by underlining it.
Book The Lost Garden Epic Poem The Odyssey
Play The Hobbit Painting Mona Lisa
Magazine World Ship Titanic
Movie The Lion King Train City of New Orleans
TV series Cosby Spacecraft Viking I
Long musical The Barber Airplane Air Force
work of Seville One
Practice and Apply
Correctly punctuate the titles in each sentence , using either quotation marks or underlining as appropriate.
Mistake in the Media
- you can read about real mistakes-big or small- in news magazines such as Newsweek
- In the classic film The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy makes the mistake of taking her home for granted until see loses it.
- Mistakes That Worked is the title of a book that describes mistakes that have helped people.
- Everybody can relate to the common humans mistakes that family members make in the TV show Cosby.
- In Homer's epic poem The Odyssey, the blinded Cyclops can't see Odysseus and his men escaped under the bodies of sheep.
- Many popular songs, such as You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone, are about mistakes in love.
- The short story Scouts Honor describes many funny mistakes made by a group of boy scouts on a camping trip.
- In the poem Casey at the Bat, poor Casey strikes out.
- The best selling children book of all time, The Tale of Peter Rabbit has a main character that gets in trouble all the time.
- Did you read the newspaper article with the bloopers- Red Tape Holds a New Bridge.