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Literary Analysis. MLA/APA Documentation. MLA: Quoting Two Lines or Less. Set off the material with quotation marks Indicate separate lines by using a virgule (/) with a space before and after Parenthetical documentation after the last quotation mark – inside the period
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LiteraryAnalysis MLA/APA Documentation
MLA: QuotingTwoLines or Less • Set off the materialwithquotation marks • Indicateseparatelines by using a virgule (/) with a spacebefore and after • Parenthetical documentation after the last quotation mark – inside the period • First citation includes the wordline • Succeeding citations use only the numbers
Sample At the end of Oedipus Rex, Kreonchastises Oedipus, remindinghimthathe no longer has control over hisown life northat of hischildren: ‘‘Come now and leaveyourchildren. / Think no longer thatyou are in command here ’’ (lines 112-113).
MLA: QuotingThreeLines or More • Indenttenspaces/1 inchfromleftmargin • Citation at the end of the last line • If itwill not fit: next line, flush with the right margin of the quotation
Sample At the end of Oedipus Rex, Kreonchastises Oedipus, remindinghimthathe no longer has control over hisown life northat of hischildren: Think no longer thatyou are in command here, but ratherthink /How, whenyou were, youserved / your won destruction. (112-114)
MLA: Quoting Dialogue • Set off fromessay • Indent 1 inch/tenspacesfromleftmargin • Begin withcharacter’sname • Type name in all capital letters • Followwith a period, space • Reproduceany extra spacingused in the original
Sample At the end of Oedipus Rex, Kreonchastises Oedipus, remindinghimthathe no longer has control over hisown life northat of hischildren. OEDIPUS. Send me fromThebes? KREON. Godgrantthat I may! OEDIPUS. But sinceGodhates me . . . KREON. No, hewillgrantyourwish. (112-115)
MLA: Citations for Multiple Literature • Use an abbreviatedform of the title • 1st reference for eachincludeline(s) • (Oed. line128) • (Ant. line 113) • 2ndreferences do not includeline(s)
APA: Citations for ClassicalLiterature • Work has no date of publication, cite the author’snamefollowed by n.d. with in parentheses Seeingpsychicemotions as . . . (Sophocles, n.d.). • Cite the year of any translation used, preceded by trans. And give the date of the version used, followed by version Plato (trans. 1963) offered a moralitythat . . . Plato’sPhaedrus (1982 version) explored . . .
If you know the original date of publication, includeditbefore the date of the translation or version In hisPoetics, Aristotle (350 B.C.) viewed the structure of the plot as a requisite to a good poem. • Classicalworks, including the Bible, are not included on the References page – they must beidentified in the text In Macbeth Lady Macbeth repeats, ‘’Out, out damn spot’’ (V:i:238).