Showing posts with label quotations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quotations. Show all posts

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Quotation question.

When putting quotes from the book, is it important that we separate each line of text as in the book, like this:
"Rage-Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles,
murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses,
hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls,
great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion..." (1)

Or should we lump it together like so:
"Rage-Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls, great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion..." (1)

Another question.

If, in a single sentence, you use quotations from two different pages in the book, how do you cite that?
for example:

Homer shows that warriors are "wolves" and "mountain lions" (417, 335).

or something else?

(this is not a real sentence from my paper, just an example.) Anyone who knows or has an idea is welcome to answer. I appreciate it! Thank you :]