MLA Format
This type and size font is used in MLA.
What is Times New Roman, size 12?
a comparison of 2 different things using like or as
What is a simile?
This is how the sources are arranged.
What is alphabetical order by the author's last name?
This is the type of essay that would discuss similarities and differences between two makes of cars.
What is compare/contrast?
John watched carefully as Mary washed the dishes[] folded the laundry[] and cleaned the kitchen.
What is a comma?
This is the spacing used throughout an MLA paper
What is double spaced?
This is the term for an exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
This is the special way an entry must be formatted.
What is hanging indent?
This is an essay breaking down the different types of contact sports.
What is classification and division?
the type of error in the sentence
I really enjoyed watching the baseball game it was an action-packed game.
What is a run-on sentence?
This is the name of the source list at the end of the paper.
What is Works Cited?
This is the term for a direct comparison of two different things (____ is ______).
What is a metaphor?
This is what an entry usually begins with.
What is with the author's last name?
This essay explains how to make slime.
What is a process essay?
the reason commas are in this sentence
Please, Burt, shut the door when you come in.
What is direct address?
This information goes in an in-text citation for the following quote "Her voice is full of money." The quote is found on page 120 of The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
What is (Fitzgerald 120)?
this gives human characteristics to something that is not human
What is personification?
This is how an entry begins if there is no author.
What is the title?
This type of essay is set up as either point-by-point or subject -by-subject.
What is comparison/contrast?
I hated the idea [] but she didn't care.
What is a comma?
This information is left justified and is called the heading.
What is
student name
teacher name
class
date ?
this is a reference to something, some place, someone, or some event from religion, history, or another work of literature
What is an allusion?
This is how the author portion of a source with the following authors would appear on a works cited page: James Joyce, Oscar Wildes, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What is Joyce,James, et al?
This type of essay attempts to explain something by giving examples.
What is exemplification?
The panther eyed its prey from a distance[] then it began creeping slowly before advancing in a charge.
What is a semicolon?