Embedding Quotations (+ poetry and drama)

Embedding Quotations (+ poetry and drama)

by H Purvis

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct in-text citation for a quotation from this source:

Website: CNN

Title: "Are bionic superhumans on the horizon?"

Author: Ramez Naam

Date: April 25, 2013

• (CNN 1)

• ("Are bionic superhumans on the horizon?")

• (Naam, Are bionic superhumans on the horizon?, 1)

• (Naam)

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct in-text citation for a quotation from this source:

Text: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Author: Shirley Jackson

Publisher: Penguin

Page: 70

• (Jackson 70)

• (Jackson, 70)

Multiple Choice

"Said" is dead. Which of the following verbs is a better option?

Stephen King once said, "Fiction is the truth inside the lie."

• disagreed

• questioned

• suggested

• quoted

Multiple Choice

In which is the quotation, from the character Kainene, more organically incorporated?

• At one point in the novel, she says, “the benefit of being the ugly daughter is that nobody uses you…” (Adichie 37).

• Perhaps Kainene is right to say that "the benefit of being the ugly daughter is that nobody uses you…” (Adichie 37).

Multiple Choice

In which is the quotation more organically incorporated?

• She decides to get married because “a complete Muslim is a married man,” (Ben Jelloun 35) and she must appear to be as normal a man as possible.

• Mohammed Ahmed gets married to appear as normal a Muslim man as possible: “a complete Muslim is a married man” (Ben Jelloun 35).

Multiple Choice

Which is formatted correctly?

• For example, when Ugwu urges the family to leave the house, “they said that war would not come and that people were simply panicking” (Adichie 220).

• For example, when Ugwu urges the family to leave the house, “they said that war would not come and that people were simply panicking,” (Adichie 220).

Multiple Select

In which is the quotation more organically incorporated?

• It is “the powerless against the powerful, the poor against the rich, the worker against the worked for and the ragged against the well dressed” (Angelou 25) in the segregated Stamps.

• Stamps pits "the powerless against the powerful, the poor against the rich, the worker against the worked for and the ragged against the well dressed" (25).

Multiple Choice

Which is punctuated correctly?

• As far as being a reserved man goes, Richard “hope[d]…assumed he was distant [and]…he feared they saw through him and saw that he simply felt out of place” (Adichie 66).

• As far as being a reserved man goes, Richard “hope[d]…assumed he was distant [and]…he feared they saw through him and saw that he simply felt out of place.” (Adichie 66)

Multiple Choice

Which is formatted correctly?

• For example, young Angelou had “built such elaborate fantasies” about her father that reconnecting with him destroyed all of them (54).

• For example, young Angelou had “built such elaborate fantasies” (54) about her father that reconnecting with him destroyed all of them.

Multiple Choice

Which is formatted correctly?

• The storyteller who narrates this portion of Ahmed’s tale admits “that [his] religion is pitiless for a man who has no heir” (Ben Jelloun 10).

• The storyteller who narrates this portion of Ahmed’s tale admits “that (his) religion is pitiless for a man who has no heir” (Ben Jelloun 10).

​Quoting poetry

• ​Quote much the same as prose: "Maybe Shakespeare is right that people are "fools".

• ​If quoting from more than one line, use a / between lines: Reflecting on the “incident” in Baltimore, Cullen concludes, “Of all the things that happened there / That’s all I remember.”

• ​If quoting from a section with a stanza break, use two // between stanzas: The Tao te ching, in David Hinton’s translation, says that the ancient masters were “so deep beyond knowing / we can only describe their appearance: // perfectly cautious, as if crossing winter streams…”

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​See the Page in Canvas that explains block quotations.

Multiple Choice

Shakespeare establishes that the magical world of the woods is different by changing the meter with Puck's first line: "How now, spirit; whither wander you?" (1).

• correct

• incorrect

Multiple Choice

Shakespeare continues to emphasize this new meter by adding in other elements of rhythm with the fairy's repetition of "over" (2-4) and "thorough" (3-5) and by rhyming "dale" (2) with "pale" (4) and "briar" (3) with "fire" (5).

• correct

• incorrect

Multiple Choice

Puck asks the audience to applaud at the end of the play: "Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends" (415-416).

• correct

• incorrect

Multiple Choice

Puck asks the audience to applaud at the end of the play: "Give me your hands, if we be friends, // And Robin shall restore amends" (415-416).

• correct

• incorrect

Multiple Choice

Puck asks the audience to applaud at the end of the play: "Give me your hands, if we be friends, / And Robin shall restore amends" (415-416).

• correct

• incorrect

• ​This should be used RARELY, only when the dialogue is essential to quote directly.

• Set a dialogue apart from your main text like a block quotation.

​Quoting multiple speakers in drama