In Text Citation MLA Style!

All of these questions ask you if the in-text citation is correct or incorrect for MLA style citations.

Correct citations have the authors last name and page number within parentheses like this:

"A person's a person no matter how small" (Seuss 15).

The period goes at the end of the citation, not at the end of the sentence. If the sentence you're quoting ends in a question mark or exclamation point, keep it and also put a period at the end of the citation. Like this:

"You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!” (Seuss 24).

• Last name... page number... got it

• Period at the end of citation -- easy

• Keep the question mark, okey dokey

• Exclamation points stay... I got this.

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CCSS.L.6.2A

“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known” (Dickens 104).

• Correct

• Incorrect

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same” (Bronte 94).

• Correct

• Incorrect

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.W.6.9A

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us” (Tolkein page 229).

• Correct

• Incorrect

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CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.W.8.9A

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose" (Seuss #21).

• Correct

• Incorrect

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be" (JK Rowling 301).

• Correct

• Incorrect

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CCSS.RL.6.2

“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone … just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had" (Fitzgerald 142).

• Correct

• Incorrect

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.5

“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what” (Lee 24).

• Correct

• Incorrect

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CCSS.RL.6.1

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep” (William Shakespeare 33).

• Correct

• Incorrect

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CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.4

“A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise" (Milne pg. 14).

• Correct

• Incorrect

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.4