MLA Format
Modern Language Association of America
What does MLA stand for?
When words are used in quick succession and begin with letters belonging to the same sound group.
What is alliteration?
The titan who created humanity and stole fire from the gods.
Who is Prometheus?
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
What is the full title of Hamlet?
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
What is the full title of Frankenstein?
(Zafiridis 29)
What is an in-text citation?
The first element of plot structure.
What is exposition?
An author who focuses on realism and fantastical elements.
Who is Franz Kafka?
A speech wherein an individual is memorialized after their death.
What is a eulogy?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
A number that appears on the top-left of an essay to indicate the amount of pages.
What is a page number?
The mode of narration that author’s use to describe what is being seen and heard in a story, poem or play.
What is point of view?
A character who undergoes dynamic transformation as a result of his preference for life imprisonment.
Who is the Lawyer?
The place Fortinbras wanted to conquer.
What is Poland?
Victor's wife.
Who is Elizabeth Lavenza?
A list of consulted and referenced sources.
What is a Works Cited page?
Creates an intimate connection to narrator’s thoughts & feelings.
What is an advantage of first person narration?
It involves: the celebration of terror, a rejection of social constraints, ethics and limiting beliefs and ideas, the mystery behind exploring the ‘forbidden’.
What is the sublime? OR What is Gothic Literature?
The falling action and denouement of a Shakespearean play.
What is a catastrophe?
An individual who left his future wife so that she could be with the one she loved.
Who is Walton's lieutenant?
A genre of writing that requires the student to investigate an idea, evaluate evidence, expound on the idea, and set forth an argument concerning that idea in a clear and concise manner.
What is expository writing?
oSpeech: what does the character say: How does the character speak?
oThoughts: what is revealed through the characters private thoughts or feelings?
oEffect: What is the character’s effect on others? How do other characters interact with them?
oActions: what does the character specifically DO? How do they behave?
oLooks: how does the character look physically? Dress? Mannerisms?
Could be read as synonymous with domestic violence.
What is the "Tell-Tale Heart"?
What is Deus Ex Machina?
A form of writing that presents itself in meta-narratives, often in the first person.