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Take a look at the passages below
to see if you can identify each of the quotation rules used. Identifying
the rules in the work of others will help you determine whether or
not you are using the rules correctly in your own writing. Click
on the quotation for the correct answers.
from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
I don't
know how long I was asleep, but all of a sudden there was an
awful scream and I was up. There was pap looking wild, and skipping
around every which way and yelling about snakes. He said they was
crawling up his legs; and then he would give a jump and scream, and
say
one had bit him on the cheek—but I couldn't see no snakes. He
started and run round and round the cabin, hollering "Take him off!
take him off!
he's biting me on the neck!" I never see a man look so wild
in the eyes.
Pretty soon he was all fagged out, and fell down panting; then he
rolled
over and over wonderful fast, kicking things every which way, and
striking and grabbing at the air with his hands, and screaming and
saying
there was devils a-hold of him. He wore out by and by, and laid still
a
while, moaning. Then he laid stiller, and didn't make a sound. I
could
hear the owls and the wolves away off in the woods, and it seemed
terrible still. He was laying over by the corner. By and by he raised
up
part way and listened, with his head to one side. He says, very low:
"Tramp—tramp—tramp; that's the dead;
tramp—tramp—tramp; they're
coming after me; but I won't go. Oh, they're here! don't touch me—don't!
hands off—they're cold; let go. Oh, let a poor devil alone!"
from At the Earth's Core, by Edgar Rice Burroughs
“Gad!” he cried, “it cannot be possible—quick!
What does the distance meter read?”
That and the speedometer were both on my side of the cabin, and
as I turned to take a reading from the former I could see Perry muttering.
“Ten degrees rise—it cannot be possible!” and
then I saw him tug frantically upon the steering wheel.
As I finally found the tiny needle in the dim light I translated
Perry’s evident excitement, and my heart sank within me. But
when I spoke I hid the fear which haunted me. “It will be seven
hundred feet, Perry,” I said, "by the time you can turn
her into the horizontal.”
from "Dining & Hospitality" Jennifer Royal
One of the most interesting discussions in Rhyss Isaac's wonderful
history of Virginia in the 18th century, The
Transformation of Virginia 1740-1790, is about hospitality rituals. According to Isaac, Virginians
in the mid-eighteenth century did not think of home as the safe,
comfortable hideaway from public life that we expect it to be today.
Instead, for these Virginians, one of the primary functions of the
home was to represent the self to others in and outside of their
own social group. In other words, public and private life were not
as separate as they are today, and custom required households to
produce the signs of being part of that public, social order in their
own domestic space in the form of hospitality. As
Isaac says, "most
of the dominant values of the culture were fused together in the
display of hospitality, which was one of the supreme obligations
that society laid upon heads of households." The ability of
families to produce this display determined their moral and social
status in the community.
"Air" photo courtesy of PJ Chmiel. http://www.pjchmiel.com
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