We cannot have these people parading through the streets in their strange costumes. PRIME MINISTER GATTUSO: heartless? It’s simply a matter of restoring order. PRIME MINISTER GATTUSO: We cannot allow any more of these robed people into our country.ĪNDREA PEERLESS: I can’t accept such a heartless …
#MLA HOW TO INTRODUCE A QUOTE HOW TO#
In David Baird’s play Broken Glass, the leaders of the main political parties are divided about how to stem the tide of illegal immigrants from the Vatican: With the exception of brief snippets, quotations of dialogue from plays or screenplays are treated as block quotations. In that case, indent the second line a bit more (hanging indentation). This also applies if the quotation starts in the middle of a line.įinally, it may happen that a line of verse is so long that it cannot fit on one line of text. Note that all the original spacing is retained in a block quotation. One wonders whether Ella Pencil’s poem “Spaced Out” parodies itself:Īs with any block quotation, we have a signal phrase (usually a formal introduction), the lines are indented a tab space, and the final punctuation is deleted unless it is an exclamation mark or question mark. Do not use slashes, but copy each line (including its punctuation) on a separate line just as it appears in your source: If you are quoting 4 or more lines of poetry, use a block quotation. Īs with a regular quotation, delete the final punctuation (unless it is an exclamation mark or question mark). If your quotation skips a stanza break, use a double slash (//). Make sure you put a space on either side of the slash. In “Aristo-cat,” Emily Thompson confesses her mixed emotions about her pet: “I love my cat / Though he’s a brat” (1-2). If you are quoting 2 or 3 lines of poetry, use slashes to indicate line breaks: Here are the essential rules for quoting poetry. Usually you will want to continue with your paragraph and explain the significance of the quotation. In particular, you should typically avoid continuing your sentence after the quotation, even though you will often see this in older academic texts.įinally, after the block quotation there is no need to indent your next sentence. Otherwise, the reader may have a hard time making sense of the quotation. The reason is that if you are quoting a significant amount of text you need to give it a fairly detailed introduction. Most block quotations are introduced by a formal introduction. There are no quotation marks, the entire quotation is indented one tab space, and the final punctuation comes before the citation, and not after. In a block quotation, almost all the regular rules for quoting are inverted or changed. I have always found Ellen Grammar to be extremely repetitive, as she shows in this passage from Why I Love Quotations: In the case of poetry, you count the number of poetic lines in the original text, even if there are only a few words per line. To check the length of a quotation, just start typing it out in your own text and if it exceeds three lines then you know it should be a block quotation. In MLA format, the rule is that when a quotation is longer than three lines of text (i.e., four or more lines) you should turn it into a block quotation. If your quotation is rather long, you have to set it off differently. You don’t have to memorize every rule, but try get a general sense of things and then consult specific sections when you have questions. Once you are familiar with how to introduce a quotation using a signal phrase, you are ready to learn the more advanced rules on this page.
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