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When citing a shorter work (essay, magazine or newspaper article, short poem, chapter of a book, one-act play, song, etc.) in your essay, place the title in quotation marks. It is only appropriate to italicize titles of longer works (books, movies, epic poetry, albums, magazines, newspapers, etc.). If, however, you are handwriting your essay, go ahead and underline these titles. That being said, a strict answer to your question is no. You should not underline the title of an essay when using it in your own essay. You should place it in quotation marks.
Guidelines for titles dictate that a work that is large and stand alone be either underlined or italicized. Since a play is a work which can stand on its own, it should be underlined or italicized.
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It should be enclosed in quotation marks.
In quotation marks
Enclose the quote with quotation marks: "Put the quote from a play here."
When naming characters from a play in an essay, you should italicize their names. This helps to distinguish them as specific elements of the play and conforms to standard formatting conventions for literary works.
It depends if the quotation is a question or statement. If the quote is a question, the quotation mark goes before the punctuation; if the quotation requires a period, the marks goes outside of the statement.
Modern style guides (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.) don't underline anything--instead they use italics. If, however, you teacher requires you to use underlining, or if you're writing an essay by hand (like on a test), then yes, titles of plays are underlined, just like books and movies.
"The Twelve Angry Men" should be italicized if it is the title of a play or a film, and placed in quotation marks if it is the title of a short story or an episode in a television series.
Quotation marks in essays are used for indicating that an outside source has been used in the essay. Quotation marks would only have to be used on thoughts if thethoughts were someone else's. If the thoughts came from a book, computer source, or some other source, then quotation marks should be used. However, the writer of the essay does not have to quote his or her own thoughts.
When citing a shorter work (essay, magazine or newspaper article, short poem, chapter of a book, one-act play, song, etc.) in your essay, place the title in quotation marks. It is only appropriate to italicize titles of longer works (books, movies, epic poetry, albums, magazines, newspapers, etc.). If, however, you are handwriting your essay, go ahead and underline these titles. That being said, a strict answer to your question is no. You should not underline the title of an essay when using it in your own essay. You should place it in quotation marks.
Guidelines for titles dictate that a work that is large and stand alone be either underlined or italicized. Since a play is a work which can stand on its own, it should be underlined or italicized.
dialogue is where two or more characters are having a conversation. when dialogue is used in a ( play ) it uses quotation marks.
When writing an essay, you should italicize the title of the work being referenced (e.g., book, movie, journal) to differentiate it from the rest of the text. If italicizing is not an option (e.g., in a handwritten assignment), underlining the title is also acceptable. Avoid using quotation marks unless you are citing a shorter work within a larger work.