The phrase "quoted passage" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a specific section of a written work, usually enclosed in quotation marks, that is taken directly from another source or author. Example: In his essay, the author referenced a quoted passage from Shakespeare's play Hamlet to support his argument about the complexities of human nature.
If the quoted passage contains an argument, reconstruct the argument in more explicit, straightforward terms.
This often quoted passage sounds fanciful, but it is at the heart of Marx's thought.
The quoted passage concerns a trip I made, while in the Nixon White House, to Moscow.
In a lengthy quoted passage, a lobbyist told a legislator that he would need to find "a backdoor way" to arrange a payoff.
Cardman returns Edward's chapter on mid-nineteenth-century mining legislation, saying that there were fifteen transcription errors in the first quoted passage.
But the serious meaning of rhetoric is language shaped to persuade, and the quoted passage with short declarative sentences certainly means to persuade.
In one much-quoted passage, Mr. Perry compares gays and lesbians to alcoholics who choose to drink.
In an oft-quoted passage from his 1985 novel, "White Noise," Don DeLillo imagined "the most photographed barn in America".
In a much-quoted passage at the end of "The Origin of Species," Darwin wrote elegantly of a quasi-religious "grandeur" in the scientific view.
Although Kripke's theory of proper names is clearly the work of an analytic philosopher, there is an oft-quoted passage from "Naming and Necessity" that could have been lifted from the 19th-century literature of forgeries, doubles and mistaken identities.
"A statesman, never losing sight of principles, is to be guided by circumstances," he wrote, in an oft-quoted passage, "and judging contrary to the exigencies of the moment he may ruin his country for ever".
