<p>When the prompt is to respond to a quote, should you directly respond to the quote in the essay? </p>
<p>For example, I wrote my essay for Amherst on the following quote: ''Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted.''</p>
<p>Would somewhere in my essay, I say something like,
Difficulty thus does not "foreshadow despair or defeat," instead, blahblahblah this is why not. </p>
<p>Or should it just be implicitly worked in there?</p>