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Dont Float Your Quote

• How to effectively embed your text evidence using
  your own commentary

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Effectively incorporating quotations into writing
can be tough!

• Sometimes writers leave quotations floating or
  unattached to a sentence which causes confusion
  and usually results in a loss of meaning.

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One way to support a key idea in your analysis
is to include words and phrases from a piece of
literature.

• These words and phrases (or quotations) do NOT
  have to be dialogue from a character.
• An effective way to use quotations is to blend
  them into your sentences

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with the quote at the beginning,

• Example
• There was blood upon her white robe, and the
  evidence of some bitter struggle upon every
  portion of her emaciated frame, suggesting her
  journey upward went beyond a mere return from
  literal darkness (Poe 90).

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with the quote broken in the middle,

• Example
• There was blood upon her white robe,
  suggesting her return from the early grave went
  beyond a literal journey when combined with the
  evidence of some bitter struggle upon every
  portion of her emaciated frame (Poe 90).

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and with the quote at the end.

• Example
• When she journeys back from below, Lady Madeline
  is undertaking more than a literal return, There
  was blood upon her white robe, and the evidence
  of some bitter struggle upon every portion of her
  emaciated frame (Poe 90).

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Final Considerations

• When you blend a quotation into a sentence, be
  sure that the quoted material fits grammatically
  into the sentence.
• For example, be sure that what you end up with
  is a complete sentence and not a sentence
  fragment.

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Final Considerations

• From that chamber, and from that mansion, the
  narrator aghast (Poe 90).
• Whats wrong with this sentence?
• Its missing a VERB!
• The sentence should be written as
• From that chamber, and from that mansion, the
  narrator flees aghast (Poe 90).

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Blended Quotation Practice

• For each sentence below, blend the quotation and
  the sentence on your own paper. You do not have
  to use all the words in a quotation, but you
  should pick out the KEY words and phrases that
  emphasize the point you are trying to make.
• Sentence Poe uses sensory details to
  create a feeling of terror.
• Quotation His room was as black as pitch
  with the thick darkness.
• KE SURE YOUR SENTENCE IS A COMPLETE SENTENCE!

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Blended Quotation Practice

• Sentence Edgar Allan Poe uses comparisons
  for description.
• Quotation old mans heart and sound, such
  as a watch makes when enveloped in
  cotton.
• Sentence In The Tell-Tale Heart, Poe
  immediately establishes the narrator as
  troubled.
• Quotation nervousvery, very dreadfully
  nervous