Revising: Quotation marks The italic words in the following sentences are titles or direct quotations. Insert quotation marks where italics should not be used. Be sure that other marks of punctuation are correctly placed inside or outside the quotation marks. Example: The award-winning essay is Science and Values. The award-winning essay is "Science and Values." 1. In the title essay of her book The Death of the Moth and Other Essays, Virginia Woolf describes the last moments of a frail and diminutive body. 2. An insect's death may seem insignificant, but the moth is, in Woolf's words, life, a pure bead. 3. The moth’s struggle against death, indifferent, impersonal, is heroic. 4. Where else but in such a bit of life could one see a protest so superb? 5. At the end Woolf sees the moth lying most decently and uncomplainingly composed; in death it finds dignity.