Use brief quotations -- four lines or fewer -- or you must follow special indenting rules.
Do not start a sentence with a quotation. Use your own words to introduce the quote.
Include the author’s last name and page number in parentheses AFTER the quotation marks but BEFORE the next piece of punctuation, which is usually a period. You should do it “like this” (Weis 32).
DIRECTIONS
There are lots of ways to seemlessly weave quotations into your writing to support the point you are trying to make. Using the six quotes you have chosen for your essay, practice each of the following ways of incorporating quotes.
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Question 1
1.
WAY TO INCORPORATE A QUOTE #1:
BLOCK QUOTATION
For a quotation that is more than four lines long when you type it out in your paper, place the quotation in a free-standing block of text and omit quotation marks. Introduce the long quotation with a colon, and then start the quotation on a new line, with the entire quote indented with a hanging indent. Your parenthetical citation should come after the closing punctuation mark.
Example:
Nelly Dean treats Heathcliff poorly and dehumanizes him throughout her narration:
They entirely refused to have it in bed with them, or even in their room, and I had no more sense, so, I put it on the landing of the stairs, hoping it would be gone on the morrow. By chance, or else attracted by hearing his voice, it crept to Mr. Earnshaw's door, and there he found it on quitting his chamber. Inquiries were made as to how it got there; I was obliged to confess, and in recompense for my cowardice and inhumanity was sent out of the house. (Bronte 78)
Imagine the entire block quote is indented like this... sorry, Formative doesn't currently have indenting capabilities.
Practice this type of quote introduction using the longest of your chosen quotes from 1984.
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Question 2
2.
WAY TO INCORPORATE A QUOTE #2:
WORK A SHORT PHRASE FROM A QUOTE INTO YOUR OWN SENTENCE:
Lady Anne calls Richard a “dreadful minister of hell” (Shakespeare 7).
Practice this type of quote introduction using another of your chosen quotes from 1984.
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Question 3
3.
WAY TO INCORPORATE A QUOTE #3:
INTRODUCE A QUOTE WITH A DIALOGUE TAG: (tag, comma, quotation mark, capital letter)
Partial list of dialogue tags:
argues
writes
points out
concludes
comments
notes
maintains
suggests
insists
observes
counters
asserts
states
claims
demonstrates
says
explains
reveals
Example:
Scout admits, “I sometimes felt a twinge of remorse, when passing by the old place, at ever having taken part in what must have been sheer torment to Arthur Radley” (Lee 242).
Practice this type of quote introduction using one of your chosen quotes from 1984.
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Question 4
4.
WAY TO INCORPORATE A QUOTE #4:
INTRODUCE QUOTE WITH COMMON PHRASES: (comma, quotation mark, capital letter)
Examples:
In the words of X, “…………” (Noethe 104).
According to X, “………” (Daniels 122).
In X's view, “…..” (Baxter 105).
Practice this type of quote introduction using another of your chosen quotes from 1984.
3 points
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Question 5
5.
WAY TO INCORPORATE A QUOTE #5:
INTRODUCE QUOTE WITH THAT: (no comma, capital letter not required)
Because of the way she treated Boo, Scout admits that “[she] sometimes felt a twinge of remorse” when she walked by the Radley’s house (Lee 242).
FYI, [brackets] are used when you need to change a word in a quote so that the quote fits more smoothly into your sentence. In the example above, the original quote said, "I sometimes felt a twinge of remorse," but the writer changed it to [she].
Practice this type of quote introduction using another of your chosen quotes from 1984.
(Bracket usage optional)
3 points
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Question 6
6.
WAY TO INCORPORATE A QUOTE #6:
INTRODUCE QUOTE WITH COLON if the quote explains what you just said:
King Edward admits his guilt just before his death: “O God, I fear thy justice will take hold on me, and you, and mine, and yours for this!” (Shakespeare 33-34).
Practice this type of quote introduction using another of your chosen quotes from 1984.
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Question 7
7.
List your two themes for Diagnostic #1 and your corresponding claims for each one (a sentence about each theme explaining how/why it is important to the Party or how it functions in the world of 1984).