Question

1. Make an assertion of your own, add a colon, and follow it with a quotation in a complete sentence.

   2. Create an introductory or closing phrase or clause, and attach a quotation to it with a comma.

   3. Work some brief excerpts of quoted material into an assertion of your own.

Instructions: Bearing these three principles in mind, read the ten examples of quotations listed below, all of which are full of various mistakes. Identify the mistakes in each sentence and correct them. You need not reword or change the entire sentence; just fix the mistakes. Please also pay close attention to the punctuation of these quotations before and after they appear in the sentences.

1. J.K. Rowling’s initial description of her hero Harry Potter is anything but heroic; in the first book of the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Rowling describes Harry’s odd appearance in great detail to emphasize his uniqueness. “Harry had a thin face, knobbly knees, black hair, and bright green eyes. He wore round glasses held together with a lot of Scotch tape because of all the times Dudley had punched him on the nose. The only thing Harry liked about his own appearance was a very thin scar on his forehead that was shaped like a lightning bolt.” (Rowling 20)

2. Annie Dillard writes that she got the idea for her essay “Living like Weasels” when she was out walking, and she inadvertently "startled a weasel that startled me, and we exchanged a long glance." (58)

3. When Elizabeth reveals that her younger sister Lydia has unexpectedly eloped with Wickham, Mr. Darcy drops his customary reserve, “'I am grieved, indeed,' cried Darcy, 'grieved — shocked'” (Austen 295).

4. At first, Juliet has doubts about their elopement. She tells Romeo that “Although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract tonight./ It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden” (2.2.117-8). Juliet’s hesitation illustrates her impressive foresight, since she is able to see the possible consequences of their hasty actions.

5. Throughout the story, Atwood contrasts “Canadian” with “American” through the characters of Lois and Lucy. For example, “Lucy was from the United States where comic books came from, and the movies.” (Atwood 272)

6.   Jane reveals the depths of both her loyalty and her misery by secretly pining for Rochester, as is evident when she declares that she “could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me” (Brontë 252).

7. At first Mrs. Ramsey finds Mr. Tansley annoying, especially when he mentions that no one is going to the lighthouse (52). However, rather than hating him, at this point she feels pity. "She pitied men always as if they lacked something" (85).

                             

8. Throughout the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Scout admires her father for his quiet strength “It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.” (Lee 64)

                             

9.      “I wandered lonely as a cloud,/ That floats on high o'er vales and hills,/ When all at once I saw a crowd,/ A host, of golden daffodils” ( ll. 1-4) is the innocuous beginning to Wordsworth’s brief meditation on the potency of remembered joy and its life-giving qualities.

10.   As the poem draws to an end, Dickinson refers to the power of the imagination, “The revery alone will do,/ If bees are few” (l. 4).

Answer 1

1. J.K. Rowling’s initial description of her hero, Harry Potter is anything but heroic, in the first book of the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Rowling describes Harry’s odd appearance in great detail to emphasize his uniqueness. “Harry had a thin face, knobbly knees, black hair, and bright green eyes. He wore round glasses held together with a lot of Scotch tape because of all the times Dudley had punched him on the nose. The only thing Harry liked about his own appearance was a very thin scar on his forehead that was shaped like a lightning bolt.” (Rowling 20)

2. Annie Dillard writes that she got the idea for her essay “Living like Weasels” when she was out walking, and she inadvertently: "startled a weasel that startled me, and we exchanged a long glance." (58)

3. When Elizabeth reveals, that her younger sister Lydia, has unexpectedly eloped with Wickham, Mr. Darcy drops his customary reserve, “'I am grieved, indeed,' cried Darcy, 'grieved — shocked'” (Austen 295).

4. At first, Juliet has doubts about their elopement. She tells Romeo that, “Although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract tonight./ It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden” (2.2.117-8). Juliet’s hesitation illustrates her impressive foresight, since she is able to see the possible consequences of their hasty actions.

5. Throughout the story, Atwood contrasts “Canadian” with “American” through the characters of Lois and Lucy. For example, “Lucy was from the United States where comic books came from, and the movies.” (Atwood 272)

6.   Jane reveals the depths of both her loyalty, and her misery by secretly pining for Rochester, as is evident when she declares that, she “could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me” (Brontë 252).

7. At first Mrs. Ramsey finds Mr. Tansley annoying, especially when he mentions that no one is going to the lighthouse (52). However, rather than hating him, at this point she feels pity,"She pitied men always as if they lacked something" (85).

8. Throughout the novel,To Kill a Mockingbird,” Scout admires her father for his quiet strength, “It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.” (Lee 64)

9. “I wandered lonely as a cloud,/ That floats on high o'er vales and hills,/ When all at once I saw a crowd,/ A host, of golden daffodils” ( ll. 1-4), is the innocuous beginning to Wordsworth’s brief meditation on the potency of remembered joy and its life-giving qualities.

10. As the poem draws to an end, Dickinson refers to the power of the imagination, “The revery alone will do,/ If bees are few” (l. 4).