excerpt

To use a passage from or section of something, often a text. A noun or pronoun can be used between "excerpt" and 'from." I'm planning to excerpt this section from Hamlet in my term paper so that the professor can see my close reading of it. You were supposed to excerpt lines from "Ode on a Grecian Urn," not just talk about the poem broadly. If you excerpt more than four lines from the poem, do you need to format it as a block quote?

to select a part of something from the whole. We excerpted a few short scenes from the play and performed them for the class. A few paragraphs had been excerpted from the film as an example.