When I'm using something that a character says as evidence, do I do the extra quotation marks or not? So is it
"'...they’d soon run for their lives...if only the mighty Agamemnon met me with respect'"
or
"...they'd soon run for their lives...if only the mighty Agamemnon met me with respect"
Last year a teacher told me that I shouldn't do the extra quotation marks, and now I'm just confused.
2 comments:
I think if it was me, I wouldn't use the second quotations.
Like if you were saying in your essay:
Achilles is "dumb"
and "dumb" was something a character says, I would write it like that. If I was quoting something like this:
"'Achilles is dumb,' said Agamemnon."
where there was speech and narration within my quotation, I would use the second quotation marks. (Which might be obvious to you, I don't know.)
I am by no means an expert, but this is what I would do. Hopefully Ms. D will write something later on...
Carli is right! Follow her advice.
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