And I’m not talking about pears, either. Two go-to references for me in high school were Roget’s Thesaurus and Bartlett’s Quotations. Add in a copy of Webster’s for the obligatory “The dictionary defines accomplishment as…” essay beginning and you’d have the trifecta of ways to b.s. a paper. Tell me, have you ever thought of Bartlett or Roget since then? (College excluded.) But there’s more to quotations that just pithy essay fodder (no, really), which is why we’ve got one more quotation art to handle before moving on: 33 Quoting the classics in answering questions. Probably the easiest example I can give of this is to paraphrase the infamous star-crossed love story… Honey, you’ve got to listen to reason, you can’t be into him, he’s a Montague! What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; She could have just said (to herself, because this was all monologue) I don’t care what his name is or he’s not just his daddy’s name or even pfft, we’ll just change his name later, no biggie–you get the point. Point is, by saying it in a deep and meaningful way–and preferably with deep, meaningful [...]
