Question

Song for the Deer and Myself to Return On Joy Harjo

This morning when I looked out the roof window before dawn and a few stars were still caught in the fragile wet heft of ebony night I was overwhelmed. I sang the song Louis taught me: a song to call the deer in Creek, when hunting, and I am certainly hunting something as magic as deer in this city far from the hammock of my mother’s belly. Which sentence uses ellipses correctly for this quotation?

A) Harjo writes that "This morning when I looked out the roof window . . . I was overwhelmed" (1-4).

B) Harjo writes that "This morning when I looked out the roof window . . . I was overwhelmed . . ." (1-4).

C) Harjo writes that ". . . This morning when I looked out the roof window . . . I was overwhelmed" (1-4).

D) Harjo writes that "This morning . . . when I looked . . . out the roof window . . . I was overwhelmed" (1-4).

Answer 1

The answer is A. There is no further explanation needed

Answer 2

A) Harjo writes that "This morning when I looked out the roof window . . . I was overwhelmed" (1-4).

It is unnecessary to include ellipses at the start and end of a quote that you have taken from a larger sentence. The ellispes in this example accurately represent the chunk of information that was deleted from the sentence in order to improve clarity.