 Identify the subject and predicate, prepositions, adverbs and adjectives.  “While the bubbles were yet sparkling on the brim, the doctor's four guests snatched their glasses from the table, and swallowed the contents at a single gulp” (Hawthorne 102).  Write your own sentence, mimicking the pattern of the above sentence.

Incorporating quoted material into literary analysis

 To support my argument.  To demonstrate my familiarity with the text.  To avoid getting kicked out of school for plagiarism!

 An embedded quote flows naturally into your own writing. When reading a well-embedded quote, it should sound like part of your own sentence.  A dropped-in quote does not flow with the rest of the sentence. It sounds jarring and disrupts the sentence and paragraph.

 Beneatha is a character who believes in freedom of expression. She said this quote: “People have to express themselves one way or another” (Hansberry 48).  Beneatha is a character who believes that “people need to express themselves one way or another” (Hansberry 48).

 Holden gets frustrated and decides to leave. “People are always ruining things for you” (Salinger 88).  Holden gets frustrated and decides to leave, claiming that “people are always ruining things” (Salinger 88).  Holden gets frustrated and decides to leave. He claims that “people are always ruining things” (Salinger 88).

 Capitalization  Leaving words out  Adding words in  Punctuation  Where to put the period.

 The quote is part of your sentence. Do not capitalize any word unless it would ordinarily be capitalized.  Example: Holden gets frustrated and decides to leave, claiming that “people are always ruining things” (Salinger 88).  Do not capitalize “people” even though in the original text it is the first word of the sentence.

 When it is necessary to leave out a few words from the original text, use an ellipses (…) indicating where the words were skipped.  He claims that “people are … ruining things” (Salinger 88).  NOTE: it is important you do not change the meaning of the original quote by omitting or adding words

 Sometimes a word needs to be changed in order for the sentence to be grammatically correct.  Use brackets to enclose added words:  She is just about to apologize when she realizes that this nun is not “Mama or Papa [who she] could argue things with” (Alvarez 15).  (The original text is written in first person.)

 Lead your reader into the quote.  Use the quoted material.  Explain how the quote relates to the main point of your paragraph.  Hmm. Sounds like the PEE chain; claim, data, warrant; and claim, evidence, reason, doesn’t it?

 Lead the reader: From early childhood to adulthood, people are conditioned to hate books and nature. Toddlers are offered books and flowers by their nurses. While the children play with their new toys, a nurse presses the lever, and shocks them to terror.  The quote: By doing this, the Director says, “they’ll grow up with what the psychologist used to call an ‘instinctive’ hatred of books and flowers” (Huxley 22).  Explanation: As a result, people in this society no longer see the beauty of literature or nature.

 The closing punctuation always goes at the very end of the sentence, i.e. after the parenthetical citation.  Beneatha is a character who believes that “people need to express themselves one way or another” (Hansberry 48).

 Avoid plagiarism! At the end of the sentence, include a parenthetical citation.  In most cases (at college), the author’s name and page number is required (Author 348).  In some cases (frequently here in class), only a page number is needed (348).  In Shakespeare’s plays, you need Act.scene.line (IV ).

 Do not require a works cited page if you are only using quotes from a single source – the novel or play itself  Use parentheticals  Generally just the page number will be needed  Your college essay should also only require parenthetical citations

Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of Publication.