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Guidelines for using parenthetical citations in mla format for poetry and prose. It covers quotation rules for single lines, multiple lines, and long quotations, as well as the creation of a works cited page. It also includes notes on special situations and reminders.
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Use a single quote within a double quote when the line from your poet was quoted by the critic you’re quoting. Eg. In “Memories of West Street and Lepke,” Robert Lowell, a conscientious objector, recounts meeting a Jehovah’s Witness in prison: ‘I was so out of things, I’d never heard/of the Jehovah’s Witnesses’”(36).
Use an ellipsis When you omit a word, a phrase, a sentence or more Use brackets to add information that’s necessary to clarify meaning Quoted material is usually preceded by a colon. From MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (2003)