Quote Within A Quote Mla
However if you want to quote more than four lines of prose or three lines of verse from a source you should format the excerpt as a block quotation rather than as a regular quotation within the text of a paragraph.
Quote within a quote mla. Below are some basic guidelines for incorporating quotations into your paper. In this case the phrase realistic optimists is in the source within quotes and the rest of that is just a quote of the source. Doing this preserves the paragraph break.
One level of nesting the most common reason for nesting punctuation is shown in section 1 3 7 of the mla handbook p. In memories of west street and lepke robert lowell a conscientious objector or c o recounts meeting a jehovah s witness in prison. Are you a c.
Note that the realistic optimists part is still the same person talking per se with quotes around it because it s strange language i presume. Use blockquote format when quoting more than one paragraph. To indicate short quotations four typed lines or fewer of prose or three lines of verse in your text enclose the quotation within double quotation marks.
Please note that all pages in mla should be double spaced. When you need to present a quotation within a quotation use double quotation marks around the quotation incorporated into your text and single quotation marks around the quotation within that quotation.
