Take a few minutes to
read through the
topics and guidelines
of this assignment…
 Please have out two
annotated readings for
me to check.
Computer Lab 10/30
Outline Due 11/3
Paper Due 11/11
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Bloom’s Literary
Reference
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Center
Literature Resource
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Try to use things labeled
as “Critical Essay” and
and “Literary Analysis”
Avoid citing
Encyclopedias with no
individual author…
These are fine to get
background knowledge,
but not great as a
secondary source in your
paper…
Italicize the titles of plays.
Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare
(not a novel! Not a book!)
Place a parenthetical reference after each
quotation containing its act, scene, and line
numbers separated by periods.
Do not use page numbers!
Cite line-number ranges under 100 like this: 34–37.
Above 100, repeat only the last two digits of the
second number: 211–12 (but of course, 397–405
and 96–102).
E.g. (1.5.268–76).
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Use arabic numerals for all reference numbers.
(Some older texts used roman numerals for act
and scene references — like this: III.viii.7–34 —
but modern scholars use arabic numerals.)
You may refer to a scene in the text with the act
and scene numbers — in arabic numerals —
separated by a period.
In 3.1, Hamlet delivers his most famous
soliloquy.
Do not say: “In Act III, scene i, Hamlet delivers
his most famous soliloquy.”
Periods and commas always go inside
quotation marks:
“Periods and commas,” says Mr. Phelan,
“always go inside quotation marks.”
If a prose quotation runs four lines or less,
put it in quotation marks and incorporate
it in the text.
Lady Macbeth first learns of the witches from
her husband’s letter: “'They met me in the day
of success: and I have learned by the perfectest
report, they have more in them than mortal
knowledge’” (1.5.1-3).
1.
2. Format prose quotations that run more than four
lines as block quotations. Start on a new line and
set the quotation one inch in from the left margin.
Do not add quotation marks. A colon generally
introduces a block quotation.
In Macbeth, Lady Macbeth first learns off the witches from her husband’s letter:
They met me in the day of success: and I have learned by the perfectest report,
they have more in them than mortal knowledge. When I burned in desire to
question them further, they made themselves air, into which they vanished. Whiles
I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who all-hailed me
'Thane of Cawdor;' by which title, before, these weird sisters saluted me, and
referred me to the coming on of time...
(1.5.1-10).
1.
If you quote all or part of a single line of
verse, put it in quotation marks within your
text.
Macbeth, urging caution, initially refuses to
carry out the murder of Duncan, telling his wife
“We will proceed no further in this business”
(1.7.34).
2. You may also incorporate two or three lines
in the same way, using a slash with a
space on each side [ / ] to separate them.
Macbeth, urging caution, initially refuses to
carry out the murder of Duncan, telling his wife
“We will proceed no further in this business. /He
hath honored me of late, and I have bought /
Golden opinions from all sorts of people”
(1.7.34).
3. Verse quotations of more than three lines should be set as block
quotations: start a new line and set each line one inch in from
the left margin, adding no quotation marks not appearing in
the original. If the quotation starts in the middle of a line of
verse, reproduce it that way, don’t shift it to the left margin.
Jaques begins his famous speech by comparing the world to a
theater:
All the world’s a stage
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. (2.7.138–42)
He then proceeds to enumerate and analyze these ages.
4. If you quote dialogue between two or more characters in a play, set
the quotation off from your text as described above. Begin each
part of the dialogue with the appropriate character’s name indented
one inch from the left margin and written in all capital letters.
Follow the name with a period, and start the quotation. Indent all
subsequent lines in the character’s speech an additional quarter
inch. When the dialogue shifts to another character, start a new line
indented one inch from the left margin. Maintain this pattern
throughout the entire quotation.
A short time later, Lear’s daughters try to dismiss all of their father’
servants:
GONERIL.
Hear me, my lord.
What need you five-and-twenty, ten, or five
To follow in a house where twice so many
Have command to tend you?
REGAN.
What need one?
LEAR. O, reason not the need! (2.4.254–58)
There are four main ways to integrate a quote:
1.
Introduce the quotation with a complete sentence
and a colon.
In 2.3, the drunken Porter provides dark comic relief as
he pretends to be manning the door of hell: “Here’s a
knocking indeed! If a man were porter of hell gate, he
should have old turning the key” (1-3).
2. Use an introductory or explanatory phrase, but
not a complete sentence, separated from the
quotation with a comma.
In 2.3, the drunken Porter provides dark comic
relief when saying, “If a man were porter of hell
gate, he should have old turning the key” (2-3).
3. Make the quotation a part of your own sentence without any
punctuation between your own words and the words you are
quoting.
Macbeth, urging caution, tells his wife that “[they] will proceed no
further in this business” (1.7.34), as he initially refuses to carry
out the murder of Duncan.
***Notice that the word "that" is used in the examples above, and
when it is used as it is in the examples, "that" replaces the
comma which would be necessary without "that" in the
sentence.
4. Use short quotations--only a few words--as part of your
own sentence.
Immediately after the murder of Duncan, the drunken
Porter’s scene provides dark comic relief, as the audience
sees this drunken buffoon pretending to “devil-porter” the
door while he leisurely attend to his duties--- holding forth
on his own “carousing” and the ambiguous effect the
substance has on “lechery” (2.3.17-25).
Quotes within quotes: “He said ‘Chimp!’” (Chimp 23).
Blending Quotes!
Use Brackets [like so] for clarifying a sentence, or helping it
flow with a quote:
Chuck Mangione reflects on the nature of reality, positing
that “nothing here [in the world] is real” (96).
Being concise is the key to quoting well!
You can always omit parts of quotes using “…”
NEVER AGAIN WRITE: “This quote shows…” or “This quote
says…”
For this essay, quote should always be attached to
character!
Make sure you INTERPRET Quotes…
Restating, or summarizing a quote does not in
constitute ANALYSIS.
Let’s look at this model CASS Wuthering
Heights Essay and see what we’re going for…