For an MLA block quote, first introduce the quote with a sentence or two. Then, to start the quote, press “Enter” and then “Tab” to indent, and start typing in the quote without quotation marks. Make sure to indent the whole quote. At the end of the quote, write the author’s name and the page number the quote appears on in parentheses. Press “Enter” again, delete the indent, and continue your paragraph. * Use block quote in MLA when the quote is longer than 3 lines of verse (poetry) or 4 lines of prose. Template: [Short introduction], Quote. ([Author last name] [page number]). [Continue with paragraph]... Example: Mansfield begins the story with two full pages of description that, rather than revealing the bay, shroud it and render it unknowable: The sun was not yet risen, and the whole of Crescent Bay was hidden under a white sea-mist. The big bush-covered hills at the back were smothered. You could not see where they ended and the paddocks and bungalows began. The sandy road was gone and the paddocks and bungalows the other side of it; there were no white dunes covered with reddish grass beyond them; there was nothing to mark which was beach and where was the sea. A heavy dew had fallen. (Mansfield 1). This “hidden” quality follows the characters throughout the story...