Marks of Punctuation
Sentences?
formatting
Capitalization and punctuation
MISC
100

Use this to separate items in a series.

What is a comma?

100

A group of words that has a subject and predicate and finishes a thought

What is a sentence?

100

The initials of the organization that attempts to standardize the format of English papers.

What is M-L-A?

100

In this title the words that should be capitalized--reasons for the gifted program.

What are Reasons, Gifted and Program.

100

These words show relationships between words, phrases or paragraphs

What are transitions?

200

This paired mark encloses an in-text citation.

What is parenthesis?

200

A group of words that is missing either a subject or predicate

What is a fragment?

200

The information at the top of the page that has the author's last name and the page number

What is the running head?

200

This mark of punctuation is used after the author's name and after the name of the article in the works cited.

What is a period?

200

The consideration of audience, purpose, design, and stance

What is the rhetorical situation?

300

In American English periods and commas go inside this mark

What is quotation mark

300


a sentence with more than one subject or predicate.


What is a compound sentence?

300

The title of the page that contains the information about the sources that were used in the paper.

What is Works Cited?

300

The identifying feature of the container.

What is italics?

300

These are the three classical appeals

What are ethos, pathos, and logos

400

These three dots show that material has been left out.

What is an ellipsis?

400


a sentence containing a subordinate clause or clauses.


What is a complex sentence?

400

The spacing between the title and the text in an MLA document

What is double?

400

A writer who introduces the use of borrowed material by using the author's name is using this.

What is a signal phrase?

400

In a composition class, this is what the text calls "taking notes."

What is annotating

500

If you see this mark you should "note what follows"

What is a colon?

500

Two or more independent clauses joined only by a comma

What is a comma splice?

500

The name given to the kind of formatting used on the second line of a works cited entry?

What is hanging indent?

500

These paired marks indicate that the writer has used exact words from a source or is referring to an article, song or poem

What are quotation marks?

500

The genre of Danielle Allen's "Our Declaration"

What is textual analysis?

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