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To quote Shakespeare in MLA, cite by act, scene, and line numbers instead of page numbers, and preserve the verse line breaks. A citation looks like (Hamlet 3.1.56-58): act 3, scene 1, lines 56 to 58, separated by periods. Short quotations of up to three lines run into your sentence with forward slashes between lines;…

To quote lines from a poem, keep the poet’s line breaks and cite by line number rather than page. For up to three lines run into your sentence, mark each break with a forward slash. For four or more, set the lines off as a block quote with the original formatting. In MLA, the in-text…

Chicago style offers two citation systems, and how you quote depends on which one your paper uses. Notes-bibliography style cites a quotation with a superscript number and a matching footnote. Author-date style cites it with the author, year, and page in parentheses, like APA. In both, short quotations run inside the text in quotation marks,…

To quote a website in MLA, put the borrowed words in quotation marks and follow them with an in-text citation naming the author, or the article title if there is no author. Because most web pages have no page numbers, the in-text citation is usually just the author’s last name: (Smith). The full source then…

To quote a song, put the borrowed lyrics in quotation marks, separate lines with a forward slash, and cite the songwriter or performer. In MLA, that means an in-text citation with the artist’s name and a Works Cited entry for the recording; in APA, an in-text citation with the songwriter and year plus a reference…

To cite a quote from a website, put the author’s last name in the in-text citation and, because web pages rarely have page numbers, leave the page number out. In MLA that means just the author’s name; in APA it means the author, year, and a paragraph or section marker if you can find one.…

To analyze a quote, do three things after you introduce it: explain what it means in your own words, examine how it says it (word choice, tone, devices), and connect it back to your thesis. A quote never speaks for itself in an essay; the analysis is your job, and it is what earns the…

These are end of year teacher quotes for the last day of school: short attributed lines for a thank-you card to a teacher, a note from a teacher to a class, or a caption. They are grouped by who is writing to whom, and each is credited to its real author. From students and parents…

These are Albert Einstein quotes on education, with the real wording and source where it can be traced. Einstein is one of the most misquoted figures on this topic, so each line below is marked as documented, paraphrased, or unverified, so you do not put a fabricated sentence in his name. The documented quotes These…

An 8th grade yearbook quote should fit on one line, make sense to someone reading it in ten years, and clear whatever your school’s approval process is. Most yearbooks cap the quote at 100 characters and reject anything with a name in it, a song lyric under copyright, or a joke that only three people…