MLA
BEST WORDS
IN-TEXT FORMATTING
Literary Terms
The Essay
100
The name of the last page of a research paper.
What is the "works cited" page?
100
This word as a adjective that denotes possession.
What is T-H-E-I-R.
100
This goes after the closing parenthesis in an in-text reference.
What is a period?
100
Three periods with spaces in between that indicate that words have been left out.
What is an ellipsis mark?
100
It is the statement of your main point
What is the thesis statement?
200
The placement/order of resources on the "works cited" page.
What is alphabetization?
200
This word denotes that one is present.
What is H-E-R-E?
200
This gets quotes within the in-text reference.
What is an article or essay?
200
These allow the writer to insert his/her own words in order to clarify a confusing reference or to keep a sentence grammatically correct.
What are brackets?
200
The font (style and size) used in the traditional paper.
What is Times New Roman 12?
300
The spacing necessary on the "works cited" page.
What is double-spaced?
300
This word is the plural of medium
What is m-e-d-i-a?
300
This source gets italicized.
What is a book or a film?
300
This usually names the author of a source and provides some content, and commonly appears before the source material.
What is a signal phrase?
300
This is a prewriting technique in which a person writes continuously for a set period of time without regard to spelling, grammar, or topic to produce raw, often unusable material, but helps writers overcome blocks of apathy and self-criticism.
What is "freewriting?"
400
Another name for the "works cited" page.
What is the bibliography?
400
This word refers to the building where lawmakers meet.
What is C-A-P-I-T-O-L?
400
This follows the name of an organization or a company in order to use it more conveniently in the essay.
What is an acronym or abbreviation
400
This is used when the writer inserts more than three/four typed lines of quote into his/her paper.
What is a "block quotation?'
400
This is the active writing of observations, questions and key points in the margins of a text, in order to thoroughly analyze a written piece.
What is "annotation?"
500
The second line of the resource on the "works cited" page is formatted like this.
What is indented 1/2 inch?
500
The possessive form of you.
What is y-o-u-r?
500
It is the word for stating an author's basic point
What is paraphrasing?
500
This is used 1.To form possessives of nouns 2.To show the omission of letters 3.To indicate certain plurals of lowercase letters
What is the apostrophe?
500
This is the word that writers use to describe the thing that grabs the reader and reels him in.
What is "the hook?"
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