Question

If a student is going to use a direct quote from lines 12-14 of the Julius Caesar speech above, which would be the correct MLA in-text citation?

A) “Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral …He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious;” (12-14).
B) "Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral …He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; (12-14)
Eliminate
C) “Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral …He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious;”. (Page 12-14).
D) “Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral …He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious;”(LINE 12-14)

Answer 1

The correct answer is A because the quote needs to be in quotation marks. The citation would be (12-14). because before you end the sentence you put the citation in the sentence too.
A

Answer 2

It is A notice that the period is at then end after the line numbers