Direct Cast/Ch
Character Motivations, an indirect understanding
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Titles/or MLA
Grammar Potpourri
100

The one with a questionable limp.

Sydelle Pulaski

100

She claims to be a "proud liberal", but her actions are discriminatory to others.

Grace Windsor Wexler

100

The misdirection in a mystery

The Red Herring

100

In MLA, a long work like a novel must be formatted in this way.

Italicized

100
The who or what the sentence is about.

The simple subject.

200

The witch who lost a cross. 

Turtle Wexler
200

He tries to impress his fiance with his doctoral vocabulary.

Dr. Denton Deere

200
Imagery that centers around sight.

Visual Imagery

200

In MLA, a title of a short work like a short story or poem must be formatted in this way.

With quotation marks

200

The complete subject in the following: The Wexler family is suspicious within the Sunset Towers complex.

The Wexler family

300

The restaurant owner

Shin Hoo
300

He shows himself to be a very protective big brother. 

Theo Theodorakis

300

This is often limited in order to build suspense.

Point of View

300

These three word categories are not to be capitalized within a title. Conjunctions, Prepositions less than 5 letters, and....

Articles

300

The simple subject can be either these two parts of speech.

A noun or pronoun.

400

The patriot

Sam Westing

400

She uses her initials as her first name so that others take her seriously, having faced discrimination perhaps in the past (both gender and race). 

J.J. Ford (Josie Jo)
400

This imagery centers around the sense of smell.

Olfactory Imagery

400

Following textual evidence, this is an example of an MLA in-text citation for The Westing Game.

(Raskin #), (Raskin 54). 

400

The correct punctuation to go at the end of an interrogative sentence.

A question mark.

500

The name of the "incompetent" lawyer who greeted the heirs at the Westing house.

E.J. Plum

500

He doesn't care about school. All he wants to do is run.

Doug Hoo
500

Type of sentence used to create style and form in order to build suspense (for it has suspense in the grammar)

A fragmented sentence.

500

This punctuation is used to decipher between a title and a subtitle. 

The colon (:)

500

This punctuation mark is rarely used in academic writing, and if ever used, it is used sparingly with intent.

The exclamation mark (for the exclamatory sentence).

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