We provide general guidelines and specific suggestions about blending your prose and quoted material as well as information about formatting logistics and various rules for handling outside text.Īlthough this material is focused on integrating your ideas with quotations from novels, poems, and plays into literary analysis papers, in some genres this advice is equally applicable to incorporating quotations from scholarly essays, reports, or even original research into your work.įor further information, check out our Quoting and Paraphrasing resource, or you may wish to see when the Writing Center is offering its next introductory workshop about the genre of literary analysis.
On this page we clarify the purpose of using literary quotations in literary analysis papers by exploring why quotations are important to use in your writing and then explaining how to do this. But how do you do this well? What kind of quotations do you use? How do you seamlessly weave together your ideas with someone else’s words? When you’re asked to write a paper analyzing a work of literature, your instructor probably expects you to incorporate quotations from that literary text into your analysis. For to be social is to be forgiving.Use the guidelines below to learn how to use literary quotations. If one by one we counted people out, for the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long to get so we had no one left to live with. LOUISA MAY ALCOTT ( more Louisa May Alcott quotes) The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY ( more Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes) Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think ‘I’m not going to make it’, but you laugh inside, remembering all the times you’ve felt that way. LEWISĪll we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother’s milk. Never fear the darkness… The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default. If you can feel that staying human is worthwhile, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them. CHARLES DICKENS ( more Charles Dickens quotes) I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape. Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. If you’re always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me. There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. DALE CARNEGIE ( more Dale Carnegie quotes) Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…. It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be.