General MLA Guidelines
Parenthetical Citation
Parenthetical Citation
Literary Terms
Literary Terms
100
This is the where the page number goes on an essay
What is top right corner?
100
This is the correct way to write the author/page format with the following information: Author: Melanie Thompson page: 5 (please write on the chalk board)
What is (Thompson 5)
100
This is the formal name for the puntcuation mark used when omitting information from a quotation.
What is an ellipsis?
100
An antagonist who is in direct opposition to the hero
What is a foil?
100
The attitude of the author toward the subject.
What is tone?
200
This accompanies the page number on every page of your essay.
What your last name?
200
This is used when the author's name is unavailable.
What is the title of the source?
200
True or false: When the author's last name is used in the lead in, it must also be used again in the parenthetical citation.
What is false. When the author's name is used in the preceeding sentence or lead in, it is not required in the parenthetical citation.
200
Criticism that a poem should be judged on its structure and not the emotional effect on the reader
What affective fallacy?
200
A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that give a line of poetry rhythm
What is meter?
300
True or false: MLA always requires a cover page.
What is false? It is not required, but up to your instructor to require one.
300
This is used when no page number is available for a source.
What is paragraph number?
300
This is the correct way to cite a source that has the following authors: John Smith Chan Yang Leslie Moore Page: 906 Write correct format on the chalk board
What is (Smith, Yang and Moore 906)
300
A poetic form where the speaker addresses a silent listener.
What is dramatic monologue?
300
Writing that commencts on human flaws, social customs or institutions with the purpose of reform.
What is satire?
400
This is the standard margin for an essay.
What is 1 inch on all sides?
400
Double spaced or single spaced. This is the line spacing for a block quote.
What is double spaced?
400
These are the rules when citing a web address that lacks an author.
What is abbreviate the title and use no page number?
400
Sound pleasing to the ear.
What is euphonic?
400
A literary work where most all of the characters, settings, and events symbolize a moral lesson.
What is allegory?
500
These items are included, in order, in the header of an essay.
What are your name, professor's name, course, date?
500
Identify the correct parenthetical citation for this source and the following quote: Deborah Tannen. The Argument Culture. Toronto:Random House, 1998. 7. “In the argument culture, criticism, attack, or opposition are the predominant if not the only ways of responding to people or ideas” Write the correct format on the chalk board
What is “In the argument culture, criticism, attack, or opposition are the predominant if not the only ways of responding to people or ideas” (Tannen 7).
500
When citing the Bible, this is italicized.
What is the Bible's translation?
500
An elaborate figure of speech that makes a coparison between two significanly different things.
What is conceit?
500
Poetry that idealizes the simple lives in a rural setting.
What is pastoral?
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