MLA In-Text Citation Practice

Which quote and citation is properly formatted?  The information for the cited quote is the following
He was stone dead.
Edgar Allan Poe
page 85

• "He was stone dead. (85 Poe)"
• "He was stone dead" (Poe 85).
• "He was stone dead." (Poe, 85)
• "He was stone dead" (Poe, 85).

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

If a quote is longer than 4 lines in length when typed into your essay, we call this a ___ quotation, and there is a special way to format it.

• square
• long
• block
• boring

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CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D

How do you properly format this quotation and citation?
I smiled- for what had I now to fear?
Edgar Allan Poe
page 87

• "I smiled- for what had I now to fear?" (Poe 87).
• "I smiled- for what had I now to fear" (Poe 87)?
• "I smiled- for what had I now to fear? (Poe, 87)".
• "I smiled, for what had I now to fear?" (Poe, 87)

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CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D

In-text citations are also known as...

• Textual citations
• Parentheses citations
• In-text parentheses
• Parenthetical citations

Tags

CCSS.L.1.2B

CCSS.L.5.2

Paraphrasing another person's ideas or words does NOT require an in-text citation.

• True
• False

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D

Is the use of quotation and in-text citation correct?
In The Hitchhiker, Ronald Adams asks the mechanic, "What about hitchhikers?" to which the mechanic replies, "(half-laughing) Hitchhikers- here?" (Fletcher 95). 

• Yes
• No

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CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D

Is this quote short enough to be cited normally, or should it be a block quotation?
"I stepped on the gas like a shot, That's lonely country through the Alleghenies, and I had no intention of stopping.  Besides, the coincidence, or whatever it was, gave me the willies.  I stopped at the next gas station."

• A normal in-text citation would be fine!
• This quote needs to be a block quotation!

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D

What goes in the parentheses for this block quotation?
Fletcher's character, Ronald Adams explains:
I stepped on the gas like a shot, That's lonely country through the Alleghenies, and I had no intention of stopping.  Besides, the coincidence, or whatever it was, gave me the willies.  I stopped at the next gas station. (?)
This quote is from page 92

• p. 92
• Fletcher 92
• 92 (No quotation marks around the quote needed)
• 92 (And you better put quotation marks around that quote, Mrs. Ford!)

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D

What goes in the parentheses for this block quotation?
Fletcher's character, Ronald Adams explains:
"I stepped on the gas like a shot, That's lonely country through the Alleghenies, and I had no intention of stopping.  Besides, the coincidence, or whatever it was, gave me the willies.  I stopped at the next gas station." (?)
This quote is from page 92

• p. 92
• Fletcher 92
• 92
• Fletcher, 92

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CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D

The four parts of an in-text citation are...

• open parenteses, author's last name, page number, and close parentheses
• open parentheses, author's first name, page number, and close parentheses
• open parentheses, author's last name, a comma, the page number, and a close parentheses
• parentheses, quote, comma, author's last name

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CCSS.L.6.2A