Can someone help me please?

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Star Collective had this to say about Knight Rider:
Ok, I'm working on a paper for my Comp II class and I'm contrasting two different poems. Anyone know how you're supposed to quote consecutive lines in the same poem? I've been doing "Blah blah blah" (page number) "blah blah blah" (page number). Its supposed to be in M.L.A. format and I'm not sure I'm doing it correctly. I would ask the teacher but it is due first thing tomorrow morning.

Can someone help me please?

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Edit: I looked through my M.L.A. handbook and there is nothing /cry

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Bloodcookie had this to say about (_|_):
I believe you indent the lines on both sides, with the standard parenthetical citation at the end.

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Thanks!

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See, that's what's wrong with America. I can (so they tell me) find as many pictures of nudie women as I want, but should I want to format my document the way a group of yahoos calling themselves the "Modern Language Association" does then nooooo I've got pony up $14.99 for the privledge. And that's just for the soft cover. You know what they need though? A teaser page. First 10 citation rules, and maybe an .mpg of somebody writing in proper style. Rowr.

Oh wait, they do. Sans .mpg's I'm afraid.
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Anyway, the assininely correct thing to do would be to cite the page number after every quotation, and my guess whould be that your teacher would ask you to do so. However there's probably a rule allowing a single-page work to go page numberless if it's included in the bibliography.

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Verily, Iulius Kæsar doth proclaim:
Okay so I was about to get all righteous and point you to mla.org, but they're not giving up the goods till you purchase their book.

<soapbox>
See, that's what's wrong with America. I can (so they tell me) find as many pictures of nudie women as I want, but should I want to format my document the way a group of yahoos calling themselves the "Modern Language Association" does then nooooo I've got pony up $14.99 for the privledge. And that's just for the soft cover. You know what they need though? A teaser page. First 10 citation rules, and maybe an .mpg of somebody writing in proper style. Rowr.

Oh wait, they do. Sans .mpg's I'm afraid.
</soapbox>

Anyway, the assininely correct thing to do would be to cite the page number after every quotation, and my guess whould be that your teacher would ask you to do so. However there's probably a rule allowing a single-page work to go page numberless if it's included in the bibliography.

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Its a three-page so I think I'm just gonna go ahead and put the citations after every one. But thanks!

Also depends on how you mean "consecutive." If you are talking about quoting several lines of poetry, you don't automatically indent (I forget the cutoff for number of lines). If you are talking about "blah blah poetry quotation blah blah poetry quotation," then you use the full parenthetical citation on the first, and simply the page number on the second.

Come to think, though, I think you can indent two consecutive lines.

Eh.

How can your teacher require MLA format if you don't have the handbook?

The reason why you don't want to quote an entire multi-page poem (like "The Raven" for instance, or "Rime of the Ancient Mariner") all at once is that it detracts from the point you're making if you quote the whole bloody thing at once.

So I'd say enclose a copy of the poem(s) you're analyzing after the Works Cited page (don't forget to cite the poems correctly!), and quote the pertinent lines in the body for each given point you make.

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T. E. Bloodsage had this to say about (_|_):
It's in the MLA Handbook. If I was at home, I'd show you the reference.

Also depends on how you mean "consecutive." If you are talking about quoting several lines of poetry, you don't automatically indent (I forget the cutoff for number of lines). If you are talking about "blah blah poetry quotation blah blah poetry quotation," then you use the full parenthetical citation on the first, and simply the page number on the second.

Come to think, though, I think you can indent two consecutive lines.

Eh.

How can your teacher require MLA format if you don't have the handbook?

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In theory, public schools (at high school level) are supposed to keep copies handy in the Library, but some people walk off with them and never return 'em.

Ideally, though, people intending to go to college will just go ahead and buy a copy of the book from online or the bookstore or wherever. MLA: Learn to love it. You will, as I'm sure Sage will agree with me, use it forever and ever. Any major paper will have to be written in MLA. Better to just buy the bloody thing and get it over with.