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MLA
Grammar
100
Who is the antagonist in the "Most Dangerous Game"?
General Zaroff
100
Diction
Author's word choice
100
Define: ebullient
cheerful and full of energy.
100
What is in the upper right-hand corner of your paper?
Last name and page number
100
Is this sentence in active or passive voice? Outside in the rain the girls were dancing.
Passive
200
What point of view is the story "The Scarlet Ibis"?
First-person
200
Direct Characterization
in literature and drama, the method of character development in which the author simply tells what the character is like
200
despondent
in low spirits
200
Is this citation correct (Hurst p. 2)
No
200
Is this sentence simple, compound or complex. Joe waited for the train, but the train was late.
Compound
300
What is the inciting incident in "The Most Dangerous Game"?
Rainsford falls off the ship
300
a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
Allegory
300
lean and haggard
gaunt
300
How do you write the date on a MLA style paper?
day, month, year
300
Is this sentence simple, compound, or complex? Because Mary and Samantha arrived at the bus station before noon, I did not see them at the station.
Complex
400
Where is this quote from? "Once upon a midnight dreary..."
"The Raven"
400
A character that does not grow or change.
Static Character
400
having a thick, sticky consistency between solid and liquid
viscous
400
Where should the title of a paper be placed?
Top center
400
What piece of punctuation belongs in the blank? My grandmother seldom goes to bed this early __ she's afraid she'll miss out on something.
semicolon
500
What piece of literature is this quote from? "And the summer was over"
"The Flowers"
500
the repetition of the sound of a vowel
Assonance
500
sagacious
having or showing keen mental discernment and good judgment; shrewd.
500
How do you order a works cited?
Alphabetical by author's last name
500
What piece of punctuation belongs in the blanks? Calhoun's ambition_ to become a goalie in professional soccer_ is within his reach.
commas