Integrating Quotations into your Writing

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Integrating Quotations into your Writing

• Literary Analysis

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Methods to Introduce Quotations

• Use an explanatory phrase
• Slice and dice the quote to make the authors
  words fit perfectly with yours
• Use a colon

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Use an introductory or explanatory phrase

• Scrooge refuses to donate to the charity men,
  exclaiming, I wish to be left alone! (8).

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• Bucks indomitable spirit is evident when he
  thinks, He was beaten (he knew that) but he was
  not broken. Despite being cruelly treated, Buck
  does not allow himself to be defeated. He quickly
  learns to become powerful and dominant instead.

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Punctuating Introductory or Explanatory Phrases

• Use a comma to separate your own words from the
  quotation when your introductory or explanatory
  phrase ends with a verb such as "says," "said,"
  "thinks," "believes," exclaims, "recalls,"
  "questions," and "asks."

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Slice and Dice

• Marley introduces Scrooge as a covetous, old
  sinner (3).

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• Original Quote During the four years since his
  puppyhood he had lived the life of a sated
  aristocrat he had a fine pride in himself, was
  even a trifle egotistical, as country gentlemen
  sometimes become because of their
  insular situation.
• What I need Before being kidnapped, Buck lived
  the life of a sated aristocrat. Buck was used to
  an easier, pampered lifestyle, which made it hard
  for him at first to embrace his primitive side.

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Slice and Dice Punctuation

• No comma is needed before the quote because the
  words melt in with your sentence. Period is
  outside the page .

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Introduce the quotation with a complete sentence
and a colon.

• Marley introduces the reader to Scrooge
  Englands most tight-fisted hand at the
  grindstone, Scrooge! (3).

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• The final turning point in Bucks character
  development is defined by violence Buck stood
  and looked on, the successful champion, the
  dominant primordial beast who had made his kill
  and found it good. This moment shows that Buck
  is willing to do whatever it takes to become the
  leader.

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Colon Punctuation Rules

• After your complete sentence introduction, place
  a colon before the quote. This prevents the
  quote from looking like it was randomly dropped
  in (very bad).
• Period goes after page number outside of
  parentheses.