Embedding Quotations in a Short Answer response

Embedding quotations using transition helps quoted material flow naturally and coherently into your response.

While traveling on a bus, the author is “Heart-filled, head- filled with glee”. Example (transition is in red): While traveling on a bus, the author is “Heart-filled, head- filled with glee”.

When written properly, the reader should not be able to hear where the quotation marks are when the sentence is read aloud.

When done poorly, the transition is choppy, incomplete, and predictable.

Poor example: This is shown by “And he was no whit bigger”.

The prior example does not make sense when read aloud. Every sentence in a paragraph must make sense, regardless of whether or not it contains quoted material.

You may need to change words within your quote so that the sentence is understandable.

When changing words in a sentence indicate the change by placing brackets [ ] around the change in the word or the changed word.

To omit words in the middle of a long quote, use ellipses (…)

Example: The other boy “called me ‘Shorty.’ / […] That’s all that I remember”.

Notice, anytime you change or add something in a quote, you must use a bracket to indicate your change. In this case, the original lines 9 through 11 were omitted and were represented by […].

How to create a good transition into a quotation:

1) give background for all quoted material -- what is happening, who is speaking?

2) only use the most important part of the quote

3) read your sentence aloud--can you “hear” the quotation marks? You shouldn’t. 3) read your sentence aloud--can you “hear” the quotation marks? You shouldn’t.

4) omit unnecessary words and phrases; use ellipses (…) and brackets [ ] to indicate your changes

The creature even describes himself as a “fallen angel [with an] accumulation of anguish” in his seclusion.

Write a response of your own using transitions and embedded quotes from “Cask of Amontillado” and “Stolen Party”

How is the theme of good vs. evil portrayed in both “Cask of Amontillado” and “Stolen Party”. Use evidence from both texts to support your answer. From “CoA” and “SP” *Remember to EMBED your quote/s