"A Good Man is Hard to Find"
"Song of Solomon"
Poetic Devices
MLA Formatting
Essay Structure
100

At the beginning of the story, The Grandmother does not want to visit this state.

Florida.

100

Milkman breastfed from his mother Ruth until he was this age.

4

100

This refers to poetic language that makes use of the five senses.

Imagery

100

The standard font and font size for MLA formatting is this.

12pt. Times New Roman

100

This is traditionally the last sentence of the introductory paragraph.

The thesis.

200

The family gets into a car accident when this animal bursts from hiding in the backseat of the car.

The cat.

200

Guitar's eyes are described as being this color.

Gold

200

This is a technique in which an author gives nonhuman objects human-like qualities.

Personification

200
Titles of long texts like books or films should be formatted in this font style.

Italics

200

The first sentence of a body paragraph is traditionally called this.

Main Idea Sentence or Topic Sentence

300

This is the first name of the father in the story.

Bailey

300

Milkman's two sisters are named this (both names, please.)

Lena and First Corinthians
300

This is a comparison between two unalike things without using "like" or "as."

Metaphor

300
The upper right corner of an essay should include this information.

Your last name and the page number.

300

Sometimes called summary, this refers to rephrasing a quotation and putting it into your own words.

Paraphrasing

400

At the beginning of the story, the mother's face is compared to this vegetable.

A cabbage.

400

Macon Dead I (Milkman's grandfather's) real first name was this.

Jake

400

This refers to a technique in which words, phrases, lines, or stanzas appear more than once.

Repetition

400

This format should be used for quotations longer than 4 lines of text. 

Block quoting.

400

Professor Sheetz explains essay structure using a method named after this classic cocktail.

The martini.

500

The Misfit's two henchmen are named Hiram and this.

Bobby Lee

500

In Chapter 10, Circe is raising a pack of this German breed of dog.

Weimaraner.

500

This is a word, name, or expression used as a substitute for something else with which it is closely associated.

Metonym

500
Entries on your works cited page should be formatted in this way, with the first line being left aligned and the following lines being aligned one degree to the right.

Hanging indent.

500

The conclusion paragraph traditionally begins with this.

The rephrased thesis statement.