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Using Quotations
In your analytical essays
The Three Steps ofEffective Quoting
Introduce the quotation
Quote the quotation
Explain the quotation
Introduce the Quotation
Give the context for the quotation
Who is speaking
To whom
In what situation
Quote the Quotation
Pick a juicy, meaningful quotation that tells us a lot about a character or
situation.
Lindo Jong tells Waverly, “So you think your mother is this bad” (Tan 201).
Quote the Quotation
Lindo Jong tells Waverly, “So you think your mother is this bad” (Tan 201).
Speech tag tells reader who is speaking
Quote the Quotation
Lindo Jong tells Waverly, “So you think your mother is this bad” (Tan 201).
Use “tells” or “says”if you are quoting a character
Quote the Quotation
Amy Tan writes, “So you think your mother is this bad” (Tan 201).
Use “writes” if you are quoting the author
Quote the Quotation
Lindo Jong quotes Waverly, “So you think your mother is this bad” (Tan 201).
Do NOT use “quotes.”You are quoting them;
they did not quote.
Quote the Quotation
Lindo Jong tells Waverly, “So you think your mother is this bad” (Tan 201).
Speech tag, comma, quotation mark at beginning;
Comma, quotation mark at end
Quote the Quotation
Lindo Jong tells Waverly, “So you think your mother is this bad” (Tan 201).
Citation: Where did you get the quotation?
Quote the Quotation
Lindo Jong tells Waverly, “So you think your mother is this bad” (Tan 201).
Parentheses
Quote the Quotation
In The Joy Luck Club, Lindo Jong tells Waverly, “So you think your mother is this bad” (Tan 201).
Underline the book title
Quote the Quotation
Lindo Jong tells Waverly, “So you think your mother is this bad” (Tan 201).
Which page did you find the quotation?
Explain the Quotation
Analyze the quotation
What the quotation means
What it shows about the character or situation
How it proves your point
Example:from Huckleberry Finn Essay
Huck makes the choice between helping Jim, which he thinks will damn him to hell, and giving Jim back to his owner. “All right then, I’ll go to hell” (Twain 214) is a ground-breaking decision for Huck between what society has taught him to believe and what he, and the reader, know to be the right path. Mark Twain brilliantly showed that the racist view that African Americans are property was incredibly incorrect, and that they are people with feelings too.
Example:from Huckleberry Finn Essay
Huck makes the choice between helping Jim, which he thinks will damn him to hell, and giving Jim back to his owner. “All right then, I’ll go to hell” (Twain 214) is a ground-breaking decision for Huck between what society has taught him to believe and what he, and the reader, know to be the right path. Mark Twain brilliantly showed that the racist view that African Americans are property was incredibly incorrect, and that they are people with feelings too.
Introduce the quotation:What is the context?
Example:from Huckleberry Finn Essay
Huck makes the choice between helping Jim, which he thinks will
damn him to hell, and giving Jim back to his owner. “All right then, I’ll go to hell” (Twain 214) is a ground-breaking decision for Huck between what society has taught him to believe and what he, and the reader, know to be the right path. Mark Twain brilliantly showed that the racist view that African Americans are property was incredibly incorrect, and that they are people with feelings too.
Quote the quotation, including citation
Example:from Huckleberry Finn Essay
Huck makes the choice between helping Jim, which he thinks will damn him to hell, and giving Jim back to his owner. “All right
then, I’ll go to hell” (Twain 214) is a ground-breaking decision for Huck between what society has taught him to believe and what he, and the reader, know to be the right path. Mark Twain brilliantly showed that the racist view that African Americans are property was incredibly incorrect, and that they are people with feelings too.
Explain the quotation: What does it mean?
What does it show about the character?
Example:from Huckleberry Finn Essay
Huck makes the choice between helping Jim, which he thinks will damn him to hell, and giving Jim back to his owner. “All right then, I’ll go to hell” (Twain 214) is a ground-breaking decision for Huck between what society has taught him to believe and what
he, and the reader, know to be the right path. Mark Twain brilliantly showed that the racist view that African Americans are property was incredibly incorrect, and that they are people with feelings too.
Explain the Quotation:How does it prove your point?
Example 2:from Huckleberry Finn Essay
After Huck lied to Jim about the accident in the fog and told him it was just a dream, Jim understood that Huck was lying. Huck felt miserable and he understood that Jim had feelings too. He thought, “It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger, but I done it, and I warn’t ever sorry for it afterwards, neither” (86).
Example 2:from Huckleberry Finn Essay
After Huck lied to Jim about the accident in the fog and told him it was just a dream, Jim understood that Huck was lying. Huck felt miserable and he understood that Jim had feelings too. He thought, “It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger, but I done it, and I warn’t ever sorry for it afterwards, neither” (86).
Introduce the quotation:What is the context?
Example 2:from Huckleberry Finn Essay
After Huck lied to Jim about the accident in the fog and told him it was just a dream, Jim understood that Huck was lying. Huck
felt miserable and he understood that Jim had feelings too.
He thought, “It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger, but I done it, and I warn’t ever sorry for it afterwards, neither” (86).
Quote the quotation,including citation.
Example 2:from Huckleberry Finn Essay
After Huck lied to Jim about the accident in the fog and told him it
was just a dream, Jim understood that Huck was lying. Huck felt miserable and he understood that Jim had feelings too. He thought, “It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger, but I done it, and I warn’t ever sorry for it afterwards, neither” (86).
Explain the quotation:What does it mean?
What does it show us about the character?
To summarize…
Introduce the quotation
Quote the quotation
Explain the quotation