Exercise

Put checkmarks by the two sources cited in the essay.
Essay	Works Cited
In Book XIII, we learn the key to the relationship between Odysseus and Athena. Athena admits that they are two of a kind. She favors Odysseus because, like Athena herself, he possesses an innate cunningness and mastery of "trickery and plots" (Homer 367). It is this common gift of trickery that serves as a link that connects the mortal to the immortal. According to M. H. Abrams, the relationship between Odysseus and Athena demonstrates one aspect of the epic in the tradition of Western literature in which "the gods and other supernatural beings take an interest or an active part" in the lives of the hero figures (54).	Abrams, M. H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. 6th ed. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993. Auerbach, Eric. Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature. Trans. Willard R. Trask. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton UP, 1974. Homer. The Odyssey. Trans. Robert Fitzgerald. The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces: Expanded Edition. Ed. Maynard Mack. Vol. 1. New York: W. W. Norton, 1995. 219-503. Niane, D. T. Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali. Trans. G. D. Pickett. Hong Kong: Longman, 1993. Okpewho, Isidore. The Epic in Africa: Toward a Poetics of the Oral Performance. New York: Columbia UP, 1993.
The citation in the essay above that appears as "(Homer 367)" tells readers that the quotation can be found on page 367 of the work by Homer that is listed on the Works Cited page at the end of the paper. The citation in the essay that appears as the page number only, "(54)" can be used because the sentence has already indicated the name of the author by means of a signal phrase: "According to M. H. Abrams." Read about types of sources