Quotation marks surround the quote. The quote is indented on the left only and single-spaced. No quotation marks are used. Ferdinand destroys the sister whose marriage threatens the integrity of his identity as an aristocrat. . . Whenever you use words or lines from a poem, novel, short story, or play in your writing, they must be properly cited.
Block quotes require that the page number be placed in parentheses after the ending punctuation.
Ferdinand destroys the sister whose marriage threatens the integrity of his identity as an aristocrat. . . Quotation marks surround the exact quote, the page number is in parentheses after the final quotation mark. The proper format for literary analyses follows the MLA Handbook . Below are example of commonly cited texts, taken from the MLA Handbook. Books Kaku, Michio.