QUOTABLE QUOTE – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

1) Begin with an S-A-T topic sentence that contains the

Subject you’ll be writing about (main idea) Author of the work Title of the work, underlined

2) Type your quote using proper MLA format.

Use quotation marks.

For short quotes, use the following format: “When it was daylight, here was the clear Ohio water in-shore, sure enough, and outside was the old regular Muddy! So it was all up with Cairo” (93).

For prose quotes of four lines or longer, indent the quote and do not use quotation marks. At the end, the mark of punctuation goes BEFORE the line reference.

3) Focus on plot and plot analysis. Discuss

o who the speaker is (a character or the narrator) o whom the passage is about o where/when the scene is occurring o what is happening in the scene o how the passage represents the piece of literature as a whole

4) Focus on literary elements and language. Explore

o tone o figurative language and imagery o symbolism o dialect o italics and punctuation o any other interesting use of language

FCA 1: S-A-T topic sentence (20) FCA 2: plot and plot analysis (40) FCA 3: literary elements and language (40)