MLA Citations
This is the number is the number to indicate WHERE you can find information in a text.
What is the page number?
The name AFTER your name in an MLA heading.
What is the teacher's name?
This is the villain that gets his arm ripped off and head cut off.
Who is Grendel?
This character provides comic relief following the death of Duncan.
Who is the porter?
"The sun is smiling" is this device?
What is personification?
This indicates when the research/reader viewed the online resource.
What is the access date?
This comes first in a correct MLA formatted date.
What is the numeric date. (The number part of the date; i.e. 12 June 2019.)
These are the devices present throughout Anglo-Saxon epic poetry that are compound descriptions of characters and nouns that are synonymous (and replace) characters names.
What are epithets and kennings?
When we know that Duncan was murdered by Macbeth, but other characters don't, is an example of this.
What is dramatic irony?
"He was a tornado, dominating all his finals!
What is a metaphor?
This is a summary of information written in your own words THAT STILL NEEDS TO BE CITED!
What is paraphrase?
When something is the title of a larger work, it should always be this.
What is italicized?
The "shadow of death" is a WHAT for THIS character?
What is kenning? Who is Grendel?
The significance of Macbeth finding out that Birnam wood is "coming" to Dunsinaine.
What is realizing the prophecies are coming true?
This is the stage direction that refers to a character speaking on-stage TOTALLY ALONE to tell the audience their true thoughts and intentions.
What is soliloquy?
This does NOT have to be mentioned in an in-text citation if it's already mentioned earlier in the sentence.
What is the author's last name?
When referring to the title of a smaller work, a title of sorts, it should always use these.
What are quotation marks?
Grendel was described as "monster born of Cain" and this is an example of this device.
What is an allusion?
This character escapes his death in act III and foreshadows his family's future lineage.
Who is Fleance?
"Fair is foul and foul is fair."
On a Works Cited page, this always goes first for the author.
What is their last name?
This is how the title of a paper should be formatted.
What is not bolded, not underlined, not italicized, BUT CENTERED.
While waiting for Grendel, THIS character was described as a "strong-hearted, wakeful-sleeper." This is an example of these two devices (3 answers).
Who is Beowulf? What is epithet? What is kenning?
THIS character announces that "something wicked this way comes" describing THIS other character.
Who is the witch? Who is Macbeth?
"Odysseus let the bright molten tears run down his cheeks, weeping like a wife mourns for her lord on the field where he went down fighting."
What is an epic simile?