- 1). Cite up two three lines of poetry without using a block quote. Place the lines in quotation marks with a slash between each line and a space on both sides of the slash. Write the line numbers outside the quotation marks and in parenthesis with the punctuation outside and after the parenthesis. For example, “He went to the store / to buy some more / of the milk he needed.”
- 2). Cite more than three lines using block quote format. Show the lines in the essay exactly as they appear in the poem. Indent the left margin 10 space for all lines. Do not use quotation marks. Place the line numbers in parenthesis at the end of the last line.
- 3). Indicate a missing line or lines from a block excerpt by placing a full line of ellipses where that lines should be. For example, if you excerpt lines four, and six through nine, write line four, then write a full line of ellipses, then write lines six through nine.
- 4). Start an excerpt in the middle of a line by indenting that line further than the ten space indentation. Do not use ellipses.
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