Commas, Semicolons, and Colons
Integrating Sources
Clauses and Sentence Types
MLA, Part 2
Quizzical
100
In speech, a comma mimics this.
What is a pause?
100
These may be used to omit words from the middle and end of a quote, but generally not from the beginning.
What are ellipsis?
100
An independent clause needs at least these two things.
What are a subject and a verb.
100
When citing a book in your Works Cited, page numbers are needed only when this is the case.
What is when you've used a certain section or chapter and nothing else?
100
"Shakespeare and Narcotics" was an essay in this chapter, one of the six devoted to the different types of argument.
What is Arguing the Past?
200
Commas can take the place of these punctuation marks in order to set off a clause that provides supplemental information or interrupts the sentence.
What are parentheses?
200
These are used to indicate that you've added a word or phrase to a quote.
What are brackets?
200
A compound sentence contains two clauses of this same type.
What is an indepedent clause?
200
Students often wrongly insert this punctuation mark between the last name and page number of a parenthetical citation.
What is a comma?
200
In "More Than Cherries," the author argued that this was causing cancer among the local population.
What are chemical pesticides?
300
This accompanies a comma when separating two independent clauses.
What is a coordinating conjunction (ex: and, but, etc.)?
300
This kind of phrase helps to introduce a quote.
What is a signal phrase?
300
A complex sentence contains an indendent clause, and at least one type of this kind of clause.
What is a subordinate clause?
300
When a source has no author, this takes the name's place in the parenthetical citation.
What is a recognizable word from the title in quotation marks?
300
When David Wallace compared the Maine Lobster Festival to the Nebraska Beef Festival, he was supporting his argument with this.
What is an analogy?
400
A semicolon generally separates clauses of this type.
What are independent clauses?
400
This mistake is made when a quote is given without any context or introduction.
What is a dropped quote?
400
Major ideas belong in this type of clause, and minor ideas belong in this type of clause.
What are an independent clause and a subordinate clause?
400
This is added to a parenthetical citation when a source you are citing is quoting someone else.
What is qtd. in ... ?
400
The author Malcolm Gladwell wrote that there should be three criteria for classifying the severity of racist acts. One of them called this.
What are content, conviction, and intention?
500
A colon is used within a sentence to call attention three things. Name two.
What is a list, a quote, or an appositive.
500
These are three of the five reasons to quote a source.
What are when language is vivid and expressive, when exact wording is needed, to let debaters use their own language, to lend authority, and when the language itself is the topic of your discussion?
500
These two types of sentence errors occur when a sentence does not have either a subject or verb, and when a sentence lacks appropriate punctuation that separate clauses.
What are sentence frangments and run-on sentences?
500
On the board, put this source in the proper order with correct punctuation. Use underlines instead of italics. Author: Sam Schwartz Title: The Etymological Origins of Shaka Smart's Name Journal: VCU Quarterly Medium: Web Volume: 2 Issue: 3 Date Accessed: April 10th, 2012 Page Numbers: 1-45 Date: Spring 2012 Database: ReallySmartStuff
What is Schwartz, Sam. "The Etymological Origins of Shaka Smart's Name." VCU Quarterly 2.3 (Spring 2012): 1- 45. ReallySmartStuff. Web. 10 April 2012.
500
Hegelian logic conducted through these three steps.
What are thesis, antithesis, and synthesis?
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