How should you use ellipsis points in an essay that quotes a work of literature? 1. to help set the style and tone of the essay
2. to show omitted words in quoted passages
3. to mean in other words, namely, or for example
4. to set off introductory phrases and clauses

The great depression, which lasted throughout the 1930s in the united states, affected many people, and it had a devastating impact on an entire subset of the u.s. population. modernist writer john steinbeck wrote about the toll the depression took on these families, many of whom were forced to leave their farms and find other sources of income.