"Perhaps you'll begin with an epigraph."
—Firstname Lastname
Then you'll start with the sentences making up the paragraphs of your essay.
More sentences making up yet more paragraphs of your essay, but this time emphasizing something important or including a Book Title or the "Title of an Article We Read."
Yet more sentences making up even more paragraphs of your essay.
Here is a block quote
(broken
up like a poem)
so you can show your readers what you are discussing.
Lastname, Firstname. "Essay, Article, or Chapter Title." Book Title. 3rd ed. Place: Publishing House, year. 47-68.