MLA: Back to Basics
This is the appropriate spacing for an MLA-formatted essay.
What is double-spaced?
Who is Nelly Dean?
This section of a story typically resolves or begins to resolve the conflict.
What is the climax?
Gatsby originally lies and says he is from this city in the "middle west."
What is San Francisco?
This woman is not a sea witch but one of the waiting gentlewomen of Hero.
Who is Ursula?
All the text, with the exception of the titles, should be oriented to this side of the page.
What is the left side?
Cathy Linton marries this son of Isabella and Heathcliff.
Who is Linton Heathcliff?
This section introduces the setting and the main characters.
What is exposition?
As revealed in Chapter 6, Gatsby is actually from this state.
What is North Dakota?
Dogberry holds this title within the city watch.
What is constable?
The works cited entries should be formatted with this type of indent for any entries longer than a single line.
What is a hanging indent?
This character is fond of gambling, alcohol, and dangling babies from bannisters.
Who is Hindley Earnshaw?
In this section the conflict is fully resolved and the story heads to its conclusion.
What is falling action?
Accompanying Gatsby's body in the pool after his death was a "cluster" of these things.
What are leaves?
The action of Much Ado takes place in this area of Italy.
What is Messina?
What is author's last name and page number?
Heathcliff is buried with these two other characters.
Who are Catherine and Edgar Linton?
In this section, characters struggle against the conflict.
What is the rising action?
This Greek man and owner of the coffee shop in the ash heap was the principal witness at the inquest of Myrtle's death.
Who is Michaelis?
Making a grand entrance in Act II, Scene iii, this character gets two lines totaling six words.
Who is Boy?
What is Modern Language Association?
Heathcliff was found in the town of Liverpool, making him this, the name for someone from Liverpool.
What is Liverpudlian?
This is a cool French word and the closing moments of the story.
What is denouement?
Fitzgerald implies on the final page of the novel that the American Dream began when settlers of this nationality arrived.
Who are the Dutch?
In some editions referred to as Leonato's Brother, the character actually bears this name.
Who is Antonio?