Question

Quotation: A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

Author: Nabokov

Page: 43

Answer 1

How should this information be formatted for an in-text citation?

"A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past" (Nabokov 43).

"A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past." “Nabokov, 43”

"A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past." ‘Nabokov, 43’

"A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past" – Nabokov 43.

Answer 2

The authors name and the page # should go in parentheses in in text citations with MLA formatting.

Answer 3

And when that's in parentheses it doesn't need to have a comma between the authors name and page number, unless it separating chapter and page number

Answer 4

the in text citations with the () should go after the quotation mark and before the period

Answer 5

*marks

Answer 6

thank you @Abbiegalie223489 i got the question right. i'll give you a medal. :)

Answer 7

Your welcome :D and thank you