Wild Card
This is the type of verb that introduces a quotation.
What is a signal verb?
Uh-oh! You used this type of pronoun in an essay. Even one is not allowed.
What are second-person pronouns?
This is what MLA stands for.
What is Modern Language Association?
This is another word for story.
What is narrative?
When used with a quotation, punctuation marks go here.
What is inside the quotation marks?
This is the worst signal verb in existence.
What is "states/stated"?
Does it seem like a good strategy to use these in an essay?
What are rhetorical questions?
In MLA, these words appear at the top of the final page of the essay.
What is Works Cited?
This is the top point of the narrative arc.
What is the climax?
Two sentences that run together will give you this aptly named error.
What is a run-on sentence?
This Word of the Day comes from a Tamil word meaning "drum."
What is "pariah"?
True or false: "in conclusion" is outdated, but using "in summary" might be okay.
What is false? Any kind of leading phrase in the conclusion is considered bad style.
This is the name for the "signals" that appear in an essay that direct readers to the Works Cited page.
What are in-text citations?
You can show or tell. You can give a scene or give this.
What is exposition?
What is an independent clause?
This is the correct American English form of the directional word that means "in the direction of."
What is toward?
This is the delicious name used to explain how to incorporate quotations into an essay (name and explain).
What is the quote sandwich?
An in-text citation should include these two parts.
What are last name and page number (if available)?
This fancy French word (literally "unknot") refers to the part of the narrative arc where things settle down.
What is the denouement?
An independent clause contains these two vital parts.
What is a subject and a predicate?
This is the rule for writing numbers in MLA.
What is "if it takes more than three words to write out, switch to numbers (1, 2, 3); otherwise, use words (one, two, three)"?
These words are not allowed in essays because they're too vague (list five).
What is good, bad, a lot, thing, and stated?
If no author is listed for a source, you use this.
What is the article title?
The narrative arc is also referred to as this.
What is Freytag's Pyramid?
Two independent clauses connected by just a comma is called this.
What is a comma splice?