Embedding Quotations Practice

Name______Date ______Embedding Quotations Practice It can be challenging to integrate quotations from literary works into your own commentary and to properly cite the sources. Today, we will practice different ways to do that. A signal phrase can be helpful to identify the author or the speaker or narrator in your quotation.

When Rita sees Johnny’s relaxed attitude, she blushes, “like a wave of illness” (159). It is important to establish who is being described or is speaking in the quotation. Sometimes with a short quotation, it is easiest to include it in the context of your own sentence.

Poet Andrew Marvel describes his fear of death by personifying time: “But at my back I always hear/Time’s winged chariot hurrying near” (21-22). The signal phrase should indicate the speaker or author. If the quotation is a complete sentence, then a signal phrase can set up the quotation and function as the topic sentence.

Sister’s tale begins with “I,” and she makes every event revolve around herself, even her sister’s marriage: I was getting along fine with Mama, Papa-Daddy, and Uncle Rondo until my sister Stella- Rondo just separated from her husband and came back home again. Mr. Whitaker! Of course I went with Mr. Whitacker first, when he first appeared here in China Grove, taking “Pose Yourself!” photos, and Stella-Rondo broke us up. (46) Use a block quote when the quotation is three or more lines long. Here the signal phrase can be used as a topic sentence of the paragraph.

Choose one of the quotations on the second page and write a paragraph about what you think it means. The main thing I want to see is that you can integrate the quotation with a clear assertion and then include a few sentences explaining the quotation. Therefore, include the following elements in your paragraph: a clear topic sentence, integrated quotation, and a few sentences of commentary.

______1. "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) 2. "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) 3. "Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." - Henry Ford (1863-1947) 4. "The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad." - Salvador Dali (1904-1989) 5. "If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) 6. "But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near." - Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) 7. "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato (427-347 B.C.) 8. "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." - H. G. Wells (1866-1946) 9. "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) 10."Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions." - Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959) 11."I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters." - Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959) 12."Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Works Cited Robins, Dr. Gabriel . Computer Science at the University of Virginia. Good Quotations by Famous

People. 20 Mar. 2006 .