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# Italics

> There are some rules of Italics and examples, may be it will help you to understand Italics better) ...

There are some rules of Italics and examples, may be it will help you to understand Italics better)

Definition:

A style of typeface in which letters are slanted to the right. *This is printed in italics*.

### Etymology:

From the Latin, "Italy"

### Guidelines for Using Italics:
- As a general rule, **italicize** the titles of complete works: books: *Catch-22*, by Joseph Heller

- magazines and journals: *Time*

- newspapers: *The Times*

- plays: *A Raisin in the Sun*, by Lorraine Hansberry

- movies: *The Godfather*

- television programs: *Doctor Who*

- works of art: *Nighthawks*, by Edward Hopper

- albums and CDs: *OK Computer*, by Radiohead

The titles of comparatively short works--songs, poems, short stories, essays, and episodes of TV programs--should be enclosed in [quotation marks](http://grammar.about.com/od/pq/g/quotemarksterm.htm).

- As a general rule, **italicize** the names of aircraft, ships, and trains; foreign words used in an English sentence; and words and letters discussed *as* words and letters: "These are the voyages of the starship *Enterprise*." (title sequence of the original *Star Trek* TV series)

- From 1925 to 1953, a passenger train named the *Orange Blossom Special* brought vacationers to sunny Florida from New York.

- "There is no danger that *Titanic* will sink. The boat is unsinkable and nothing but inconvenience will be suffered by the passengers." (Phillip Franklin, Vice President of White Star Line)

- "Come kiss me, and say goodbye like a man. No, not good-bye, *au revoir*." (William Graham, "Chats With Jane Clermont" 1893)

- "Every word she writes is a lie, including *and* and *the*." (Mary McCarthy on Lillian Hellman)

- As a general rule, use **italics** to emphasize words and phrases: "I don't even like *old* cars. I mean they don't even interest me. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least *human*, for God's sake." (J. D. Salinger, *The Catcher in the Rye*) "**Italics** rarely fail to insult the reader's intelligence. More often than not they tell us to emphasize a word or phrase that we would emphasize automatically in any natural reading of the sentence." (Paul Robinson, "The Philosophy of Punctuation." *Opera, Sex, and Other Vital Matters*. Univ. of Chicago Press, 2002)

[http://grammar.about.com/od/il/g/italterm.htm](http://grammar.about.com/od/il/g/italterm.htm)

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