Eye floaters and flashes can be the result of the retina becoming detached from the inner back of the eye or the vitreous pulling away from the retina, says Marilyn Haddrill of All About Vision. Ordinary eye floaters that are no cause for alarm can also cause these symptoms. Continue Reading.
Prose or verse quotations less than four lines long are not indented. For quotations of this length, use the patterns described above. Indent longer quotations in a block about ten spaces in from the left margin; when a quotation is indented, quotation marks are not used. The MLA Handbook (1995) recommends that indented quotations be double-spaced, but many instructors prefer them single-spaced.
A block quote is similar to a direct quote except that it is four or more lines in length. When a quote becomes four or more lines in length in your essay, the quote should be set off from your text (see the example below). MLA conventions state that the block quote should be double-spaced and indented ten spaces from the margin. Also, the period that is usually placed after the parentheses is omitted.