Mechanics
This is used to add clarifying words or to show changes to the original text
What are square Brackets?
the text that you are copying into your own writing from another place?
The missing part:
"I ask them to take a poem / and hold it up to the light" (1).
What is a setup?
This is used to cut out 1+ words from a quotation because it does not fit your sentence
what is an ellipsis?
This is embedded in your paragraph to connect evidence back to a specific page in a specific text from your Works Cited.
What is a parenthetical reference
the missing part of the following quotation:
Macduff says, "O horror, horror, horror!"
what is a parenthetical reference?
This is used to mark the end of a poetic line
What is a forward slash?
This essential part transitions the reader from the writer's language to the source text's language. This must be included in the same sentence as the quotation.
What is a set-up (or intro)?
The missing thing:
Even though he didn't quite break even, the job was "something to do" and "got him off the couch" (40)
What's end punctuation? period after (40).
In MLA, the placement of these two punctuation marks depend on whether the source text uses them or whether the writer of the paper uses them
What are question marks and exclamation points?
If two, this gets added
What is Page number, what is author's last name
Name the error:
Macbeth admits that he "[is] in blood / Stepped in so far that, should [he] wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er" (Macbeth).
What is the parenthetical reference?
In MLA, these two punctuation marks are always moved from the inside of the quotation to after the parenthetical reference
If citing a text—poetry or prose— for a AP Lit college board essay, this one thing would go into the parenthetical reference
what is line number
The error in the following quotation
The Chin Chin Man says, "'no hitting,' ...and then he begins to speak to Nana" (50).
What is an illogical set up?