made me crave to listen, and I tried to say
'Untie me!' to the crew, jerking my brows;
but they bent steady to the oars. Then Perimedes
got to his feet, he and Eurylochus, 80
and passed more line about, to hold me still.
–The Odyssey,
Homer
Which quotation is correctly formatted using MLA citation?
“I tried to say / 'Untie me!' to the crew, jerking my brows.” (Homer 80)
Homer writes, “I tried to say / 'Untie me!' to the crew, jerking my brows” (80).
“I tried to say / 'Untie me!' to the crew, jerking my brows” (Homer 77-78).
Homer writes, “I tried to say / 'Untie me!' to the crew, jerking my brows (77-78).”
1 answer
The correctly formatted quotation using MLA citation is:
Homer writes, “I tried to say / 'Untie me!' to the crew, jerking my brows” (80).
In this option, the quote is properly attributed to Homer and the page number is correctly placed after the quote, following MLA conventions.
