1. Using Dialog to make your writing come alive.
Narrative Writing
Using Dialog to make your writing come alive.

2. Explanation
Dialogue makes a narrative come alive with added information about the experience. It reveals the speakers’ personalities and keeps the action moving.

3. Quotation marks go around the exact words that a person says
“Marianne studied every day after school. Can you believe she missed being outdoors the first week of spring for one silly test?” Sarah laughed.

4. Periods, question marks, exclamation points, and commas go inside quotation marks.
“Do you think you did well on the test? You didn’t even study one smidge!” Spencer replied.

5. Commas set off quotations.
“Study? What you are looking at,” stated Sarah confidently, “is a genius.”

6. When a quote is divided and written as two distinct sentences, begin the second sentence with a capital letter and no comma preceding the second sentence
“I was absent a few days last week, wasn’t I?” Sarah reminded Spencer. “I mean, so Marianne got a 100, and all of the bonus questions right?”

7. When the speaker changes, begin the next quotation with a new paragraph.
“The weather is nice outside today,” he smiled.
“Oh, I love spring,” she replied.