Dialogue Independent Practice

What is outer dialogue?

• A conversation between characters

• A character's internal thoughts

• A description of the setting

• A narrative about past events

Place the _______ around the words spoken. Punctuation belongs inside the quotation marks.

• quotation marks

• parentheses

• brackets

• commas

Place the tag in a variety of positions within the dialogue. The tag can be placed before, in the middle, or at the end of the spoken words. Where is it in this example: “Come on,” Bobby said grabbing Betty’s hand, “let’s get out of here.”

• Before the spoken words

• In the middle of the spoken words

• At the end of the spoken words

• All of the above

When the tag comes before what is said, which of the following is an example?

• "Well then, I must be going," sighed Jane.

• Without hesitation, Jane yelled, "Why are you chasing me!? I give up!"

• "Who are you," she whispered, "and where did you come from?"

• "Get away from me!" she screamed as she struggled to put her keys into the ignition.

When the tag interrupts what is said, which of the following is an example?

• A) "Well then, I must be going," sighed Jane.

• B) Without hesitation, Jane yelled, "Why are you chasing me!? I give up!"

• C) "Who are you," she whispered, "and where did you come from?"

• D) "Get away from me!" she screamed as she struggled to put her keys into the ignition.

In dialogue, what should you do each time a new person speaks?

• Start a new paragraph

• Continue in the same paragraph

• Use a semicolon

• Change the font

____ is a literary device that can allow conversation between two or more characters in a narrative.

• figurative language

• dialogue

• point of view

• elements of plot

Dialogue is:

• words spoken by someone

• good to include in a personal narrative

• surrounded by quotation marks

• all three choices

When writing dialogue and your speaker changes, what do you need to do to the following line of text?

• Skip a line

• Indent

• Bold it

• Italicize it

Which dialogue is formatted correctly?

• "Is it this one?" they wondered.

• "Is it this one" they wondered.

• "Is it this one" they wondered."

• Is it this one? they wondered.