Look Who’s Talking



Look Who’s Talking

Remember the Rules of Dialogue:

1) Dialogue is the exact words spoken by characters in a story.

“You are to dig one hole each day, including Saturdays and Sundays. Each hole must be five feet deep, and five feet across in every direction. Your shovel is your measuring stick. Breakfast is served at 4:30.” (Holes)

2) Quotation marks are placed at the beginning and end of the words being spoken.

I said, “Ow!” (Bud, Not Buddy)

3) Do not put quotation marks around words unless they are the exact words spoken by characters in a story.

I am bothered when my Dad telephones me and finishes by saying, “Well, keep your nose clean, kid.” Why can’t he say he misses me, and why can’t he call me Leigh?

(Dear Mr. Henshaw)

4) A speaker’s words begin with a capital letter.

“Oh, we’ll let him keep his name. Even a prince” – this in her most Terabithian voice – “even a prince may be a fool.” (Bridge to Terabithia)

5) A new paragraph begins when a new person speaks.

“Sure, I would. Billy said. “Mud. What’s mud? Just dirt with a little water in it. My father says everyone eats a pound of dirt every year anyway.”

“How about poison?”

“That’s different.” Billy rolled over on his back.

“Is your mother going to make you eat the leftovers today at lunch?” he asked Tom.

“She never has before.”

“How about worms?” Alan asked Billy.

(How to Eat Fried Worms)

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