Review: Three Basic Techniques of Quotation Integration: 1. An assertion or statement of your own and a colon followed

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Review: Three Basic Techniques of Quotation Integration: 1. An assertion or statement of your own and a colon followed

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Review: Three Basic Techniques of Quotation Integration:
1. An assertion or statement of your own and a colonfollowed by a quotation in a complete sentence.2. An introductory or closing phrase or dependent clausewith a dialogue marker, followed by a quotation, and punctuatedwith a comma.3. Brief Excerpts of quoted material worked into an assertionof your own (with no punctuation).
Instructions: Correct the mistakes and perform QuotationIntegrations using (as needed) one from among the three techniqueslisted above in the following sentences. Please pay closeattention to the punctuation of these quotations before and afterthey appear in the sentences as well. (Note: you only need to fixthe errors; you do not need to rewrite the entire sentence).
1. Mrs. Wilmot appears as a loving mother to the rest ofthe world, while inwardly caring very little for her children.“When her children were present, she always felt the centre of herheart go hard.” (120)
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2. Annie Dillard writes that she got the idea for her essay,“Living like Weasels,” when she was out walking, and sheinadvertently "startled a weasel that startled me, and we exchangeda long glance." (58)
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3. When Elizabeth reveals that her younger sister Lydia hasunexpectedly eloped with Wickham, Mr. Darcy drops his customaryreserve, “'I am grieved, indeed,' cried Darcy, 'grieved —shocked.'” (Austen 295)
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4. At first, Juliet has doubts about their elopement. Shetells Romeo that “Although I joy in thee, I have no joy of thiscontract tonight./ It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden”(2.2.117-8). Juliet’s hesitation illustrates her impressiveforesight, since she is able to see the possible consequences oftheir hasty actions.
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5. Throughout the story, Atwood contrasts “Canadian” with“American” through the characters of Lois and Lucy. Forinstance, “Lucy was from the United States where comic books camefrom, and the movies.” (Atwood 272)Correction:
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6. Surprisingly, Mrs. Mallard is happy at the thought ofher husband’s death: “Free, free, free!” (4).
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7. At first Mrs. Ramsey finds Mr. Tansley annoying, especially whenhe mentions that no one is going to the lighthouse (52). However,rather than hating him, at this point she feels pity. "She pitiedmen always as if they lacked something" (85).
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8. As soon as he enters his former home, and sees it crowdedwith unwanted suitors who desire both his queen and his crown,Odysseus realizes that saying his name will get him into trouble.“My name is Nobody. That is what I am by my mother and father andby all my friends.”
Correction:_______________________________________________________________________________________9. In her novel, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen has herheroine’s father, Mr. Bennet, mock society at crucial moments; “Forwhat do we live but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh atthem in our turn” (Austen 58)?
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10. George Orwell had a difficult time acting as a policeofficer in Lower Burma. As demonstrated in the followingexcerpt from “Shooting an Elephant,” he feels frustrated by hisconflicting need to maintain law and order, while believing thatthe Burmese had the right to be free. “All this was perplexing andupsetting. For at that time I had already made up mymind that imperialism was an evil thing and the sooner I chucked upmy job and got out of it the better. Theoretically --and secretly, of course -- I was all for the Burmese and allagainst their oppressors, the British.” (Orwell 352)Correction:
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