Quotation

:This article is about quoting. For information about the punctuation mark, see Quotation mark

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A quotation is a fragment of a human expression that is inserted into another human expression. It is most often a written or oral fragment and in such cases it is also called a quote. This latter type of quotation is almost always taken from literature, though speech transcripts, film dialogues, and song lyrics are also common and valid sources.

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Besides this, a quotation can also refer to the use of a piece of other artistic works ?elements of a painting, scenes from a movie or sections from a musical composition? into another one.

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The rest of this article will deal only with written or oral quotations.

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Lyrics: Lyrics are the written words in a song. Lyrics can be written during the composition of a song or after the accompanying music is composed. Sometimes, however, music is adapted to or written for a song or poem that has already been written. The meaning conveyed in lyrical verses can be explicit or...