Quoting+The+Bard


 * The following information is taken directly from [|The Keables Guide to English].**

**THE KEABLES GUIDE TO IN TEXT CITATION** Jane Eyre speaks to her master boldly: "You are human and fallible" (129). Sentences ending in question marks or exclamation points are exceptions: An inner voice urges Jane, "Depart!" (300). REDUNDANT: Karenin feels both a "good spiritual force" (382) and a "coarse power" (382). BETTER: Karenin feels both a "good spiritual force" and a "coarse power" (382).   Use extracted quotations sparingly. Parenthetical citation for extracted quotations goes //after// the period and one blank space. The following example is spaced and indented ( 3/10 inch) as it would appear in an essay: Baldwin uses a metaphor to describe the narrator's reaction to the shocking news: A great block of ice got settled in my belly and kept melting there slowly all day long, while I taught my classes in algebra. It was a special kind of ice. It kept melting, sending trickles of ice water all up and down my veins, but it never got less. Sometimes it hardened and seemed to expand until I felt my guts were going to come spilling out or that I was going to choke or scream. (272)  WRONG (NO INTRODUCTION): Macbeth has changed. "Out, out, brief candle!" (5.5.23). WRONG (UNGRAMMATICAL): Macbeth has changed "Out, out, brief candle!" (5.5.23). RIGHT: A changed man, Macbeth wearily exclaims, "Out, out, brief candle!" (5.5.23). WRONG (NO COMMENTARY): Macbeth says, "Out, out, brief candle!" (5.5.23). RIGHT: Upon hearing that his wife has died, Macbeth can only cry, "Out, out, brief candle!" (5.5.23), for life now seems to him no more than a flame that quickly vanishes.
 * 1. **** QLD **** : documentation. ** Place the page or line number in a parenthesis after the quotation:
 * a. Never misquote the text. ** Check quotations for details, even punctuation.
 * b. Use correct form. ** End punctuation goes outside the parenthesis. Use no abbreviations such as p. or pp. Leave one blank space between the quotation marks and the parenthesis:
 * WRONG: "fallible." (129) || "fallible" (p. 129)  || "fallible (129)".  || "fallible"(129).  ||
 * ** RIGHT ** : "fallible" (129). ||  ||  ||  ||
 * c. Two or more consecutive quotations from the same page need only one citation: **
 * 3. **** QL Ex **** : extracted quotations **** . ** If a prose quotation takes more than four lines, or a quotation from poetry takes more than three, indent one inch, using double-spacing and no quotation marks. Indent from the left only. Do not indent more for the start of a paragraph unless your quotation covers more than one paragraph; if it does, indent paragraph beginnings three tenths of an inch.
 * 7. **** QLI **** : introducing quotations **** . ** There are two critically important rules:
 * a. Introduce every quotation smoothly and grammatically into a statement of your own. ** Do not leave the quotation hanging with no introduction, and do not violate the rules of grammar to include the quotation. The second example below is a fused sentence.
 * b. Your sentence must comment on the significance of the quotation. ** Do not just introduce your evidence. Just as an attorney shows a jury a forged check or murder weapon, a literary critic shows the reader evidence--a word, a series of phrases, a paragraph--to prove a point about character, theme or style. As you quote, clearly indicate the context of the passage and the purpose it serves in your argument. Your sentence should include commentary: