MLA & APA
Capitalization
Parts of Speech
Literary Elements
Studied Texts
100

This citation style uses a "Reference Page."

What is "APA"?

100

This word should always be capitalized regardless of its location in a sentence.

What is "I"?

100

This part of speech describes verbs and adjectives.

What are "adverbs"?

100

This literary element is used to create pictures in the readers mind.

What is "imagery"?

100

This story includes parallel plots to show the protagonist's perspective on dreams and reality.

What is "The Night Face Up"?

200

In-text citations go in this location of written work in relation to the evidence.

What is "at the end of the sentence that contains the evidence"?
200

Geographic names such as cities, states, and countries should be capitalized in these cases.

What is "always"?

200

"Wow, great job!" is an example of this part of speech.

What is an "interjection"?

200

This type of figurative language describes the feeling of the author.

What is "tone"?

200

Syrita and X live in this city in the United States.

What is Los Angeles, California?

300

Book titles should be in this format unless they are printed in a series.

What is "italicized"?
300

Words such as east, west, north, and south are not capitalized when they are doing this in a sentence.

What is "indicating direction"?

300

The word pronouns replace is this form of a noun.

What is an "antecedent"?
300

Line 6 of "A Contribution to Statistics" uses this type of figurative language.

What is an "idiom"?

300

The author of "A Contribution to Statistics" uses these two literary devices to comment on human nature without explicitly stating her direct meaning.

What is "euphemism" and "idiom"?

400

This is the key difference between MLA and APA styles.

What is "APA includes the year in its in-text citations"?

400

School subjects should not be capitalized except for in these instances. 

What is when the classes are "names of languages or official course names"?

Examples may also be accepted.

400

Select the correct preposition(s) in the sentence below:

 Due to the storm, it was difficult to walk against the wind even among all the trees.

What is "against" and "among"?

400

This element of plot precedes the rising action.

What is the "inciting incident"?

400
"The Night Face Up" forces the audience to alter their perspective through this way.

What is "the reader's understanding of society impacts their perspective on the modern world actually being a dream versus the Aztec world being the reality"?

500

APA is an acronym for this organization.

What is "American Psychological Association"?

500

Correct this sentence:

one of the most important Goddesses of Ancient greece was athena.

One of the most important goddesses of ancient Greece was Athena. 

500

A and an are this type of adjective.

What are "indefinite articles"?
500

This character's purpose is to highlight their difference(s) with the central character(s).

What is a "character foil"?

500

The author of "Super Human" also wrote these two novels that have film versions. Knowing an author's background helps readers understand their perspective.

What is "Everything Everything" and "The Sun is Also a Star"?