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 English Tip of the Week
Internal Dialogue: Italics or Quotes?
Internal dialogue is used by authors to indicate what a character is thinking to himself/herself.
Direct internal dialogue refers to a character thinking the exact thoughts as written, often in the first person (I).
Example: “I lied,” Charles thought, “but maybe she will forgive me.”
Notice that quotation marks and other punctuation are used in the same way as if the character had spoken aloud.
You may also use italics without quotation marks for direct internal dialogue.
Example: I lied, Charles thought, but maybe she will forgive me.
Indirect internal dialogue refers to a character expressing a thought in third person and is not set off with either italics or quotation marks.
Example: Bev wondered why Charles would think that she would forgive him so easily.
The words she would tell us that she did not think these exact words.
Due to the E-Newsletter's large readership, we are unable to respond to individual English usage questions.
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 Wordplay
Two weeks ago, our Wordplay featured a spoonerism, (the transposition of initial or other sounds of words, usually by accident, as in a blushing crow for a crushing blow).
One of our faithful readers wrote in with a spoonerism of her own:
"When she was a child, my daughter always asked for a chilled grease sandwich (instead of a grilled cheese sandwich)!
Sometimes I thought her description was more apt."
Thanks to Aileen Z. and her daughter, Annette, for this week's Wordplay!
Learn all about who and whom, affect and effect, subjects and verbs, adjectives and adverbs, commas, semicolons, quotation marks, and much more by just sitting back and enjoying these easy-to-follow lessons. Tell your colleagues (and boss), children, teachers, and friends. Click here to watch. |
