MLA
What are acceptable fonts for MLA?
Times New Roman and Ariel
What logical fallacy is being used below?
Everyone I know is voting for Kanye, so you should too! (Please don't vote for Kanye)
Bandwagon Fallacy
What are the phrases we learned this semester?
Prepositional
Infinitive
Participle
Gerundial
What are the five types of commas we learned this semester?
Listing / Oxford Comma
Bracketing Comma
Comma's between two adjectives
Introductory Phrase
Introductory Clause
What type of English is being used below?
Hwæðre iċ þǣr licgende lange hwīle
behēold hrēowċeariġ Hǣlendes trēow,
oð ðæt iċ ġehȳrde þæt hit hlēoðrode.
Old English
What is this punctuation mark called and what is its function? [ ' ]
Name: Apostrophe
Function: To denote contraction or possession.
What goes in the Header of an MLA paper?
Last name and Page Number
What logical fallacy is being used below?
My whole family loves UT and UT football. I'm kinda a fan of A&M but because my family likes UT I'll root for them and buy all their merch and donate to the family team.
Sunk Cost
Prepositions tell you what?
Where and When
What type of comma is being used below?
The melancholy, slow song hurts to listen to.
A comma between two adjectives.
What type of English is being used below?
In hevene and helle, in erthe and salte see
Is felt thy might, if that I wel descerne;
As man, brid, best, fish, herbe and grene
Middle English
Write a sentence with a semicolon.
Sentence
What do you need to do to a title in an MLA paper?
Center it and Capitalize each main word, and nothing else.
What logical fallacy is being used below?
Whenever I am picking a new book to read, I look at Stephen King's favorite novels and pick from that list.
Appeal to Authority.
Participal phrases have what two forms?
Past and Present
What type of comma is being used below?
Basil Rathbone, the British actor, is my favorite version of Sherlock Holmes tied with Benedict Cumberbatch.
Bracketing Commas
Mass was given in this language during the reign of Willaim and Conquerer
Latin
True or False, Colons come after sentence fragments, and the written material after the colon is unrelated to the sentence fragment.
False
Which of these should be italicized and which should be quoted?
A novel
A play
A song
A video game
An article
Italicized: Novels, Plays, Video Games
Quoted: "Songs," "Articles"
What logical fallacy is being used below?
Kids can't have any idea about their gender because they haven't hit puberty yet.
Appeal to Ignorance
What is the gerundial phrase in the sentence below?
Binging Netflix is what she did in the summer.
Binging Netflix
What makes an Oxford comma an Oxford Comma?
An Oxford comma has a comma before the and in the list.
Ex: I like books, movies, and podcasts!
What is Proto-Indo-European?
The alleged "base language" of English. This language does not exist. English primarily emerged from Germanic/Nordic languages and French.
What is a sentence fragment?
A dependant clause, often a subordinating clause.
True or False, all of these should be quoted?
An album
An essay
A journal article
A chapter of a book
False
What logical fallacy is being used below?
My bestie and I argue all the time that tea or coffee is better. As a coffee drinker, all I can say is coffee is better, and she does the same with tea.
Circular Argument
What is the infinitive in the sentence below?
To go to bed on time is my new goal!
To go
What's the difference between an introductory phrase and an introductory clause?
An introductory phrase does not start with a subordinating conjunction. An introductory clause does.
Put the items in chronological order and give the proper dates/date ranges for each
The Norman Conquest
The Great Vowel Shift
Modern English
The Norman Conquest - 1066 - 1200 ADE
Modern English - 1480 ADE
The Great Vowel Shift - 1600 - 1700 ADE
What are the coordinating conjunctions and the subordinating conjunctions?
CC: For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
SC: Although, Since, If, Because, Until, When, Whenever, Before