Be and be better. For they existed. Poetry Daily. For example:. Adding quotations and poetry to your MLA format essay gives it an added depth and helps draw the reader into your essay.
They also strengthen your thesis. Some instructors require adding quotations as well. Vote count: 4. Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than that dark form and savage face which broke upon us out of the wall of fog.
Doyle However, if the first sentence quoted does not begin a paragraph in the source, do not indent it the additional amount, only indent the subsequent paragraphs. Here is an example where the first sentence is the beginning of a paragraph:. Sir Henry lay insensible where he had fallen. We tore away his collar, and Holmes breathed a prayer of gratitude when we saw that there was no sign of a wound and that the rescue had been in time.
Already our friend's eyelids shivered and he made a feeble effort to move. Lestrade thrust his brandy-flask between the baronet's teeth, and two frightened eyes were looking up at us. Quotations can be integrated into a text in several ways. Guidelines that apply to all short quote formats: All punctuation should be the same in the quote as in the source text. The parenthetical citation should always appear in parentheses at the end of your sentence, regardless of the location of the quote within the sentence.
If the source does not use page numbers, do not include a number in the parenthetical citation. Punctuation such as periods, commas, and semicolons are placed after the parenthetical citation. Quoting poetry When quoting up to three short lines of poetry, indicate breaks in verse by placing a forward slash at the end of each verse line.
How useful was this post? Click on a star to rate it! We are sorry that this post was not useful for you! Let us improve this post! Tell us how we can improve this post? Submit Feedback. Citation Basics. The entire block quotation should be indented one inch from the left margin.
The first line of the excerpt should not be further indented, unless you are quoting multiple paragraphs—in which case the first line of each quoted paragraph should be further indented 0. As should the rest of your paper, a block quotation in MLA style should be double-spaced.
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