MLA Format
Citations
Grammar
MORE MLA
MISC.
100
The acronym MLA stands for...
What is Modern Language Association?
100
How would you cite this in text (in your essay)? "The only way out is up."- The Ledge, pg. xi Authors: Jim Davidson and Kevin Vaughan
"The only way out is up" (Davidson and Vaughan xi).
100
This mode of punctuation is used between two complete clauses without a coordinating conjunction.
What is semicolon?
100
This should be at the top right hand corner of your paper...
What is: Last name and page number
100
Names of essays should be... (underlined, italicized, bolded, quoted)
What is quoted?
200
The header of your paper should contain these 4 elements (in this order)
Name Professor Class Date
200
Cite this: "I lived in Master Hugh's family about seven years." Frederick Douglass, Learning to Read, pg. 25
"I lived in Master Hugh's family about seven years" (Douglass 25).
200
Find the error: Every morning I find time to eat breakfast, brush my teeth and make my bed.
Comma after teeth.
200
The Works Cited page should be arranged by...
What is alphabetized by author's last name?
200
Novel and book titles should be...
What is italicized?
300
Your paper should be in this size and type font...
What is 12 point, Times New Roman?
300
Find the error: "I had no regular teacher," (Douglass 25).
No comma after "teacher."
300
Find the error: I always agree with there ideas.
Wrong form of "their"
300
Find the error: He writes, "I often thought myself a beast" (Douglass 27). He continues, "After a long, tedious effort for years, I finally succeeded in learning how to write" (Douglass 29).
Do not write the author's name twice if quoted more than once in a row. Just the page number. IE: (29) the second time not (Douglass 29)
300
Virginia Woolf uses this book by Professor Trevelyan for historical evidence in "Shakespeare's Sister."
What is History of England?
400
This type of spacing should be between lines in your paper...
What is Double-spaced
400
Find the error: "Women are poorer than men because- this or that" (Woolf, 47).
No comma after Woolf.
400
Find the error: "Women are poorer than men because- this and that," (Austin, 47).
No comma in the quotes, no coma after Austin, and it should be Woolf and not Austin.
400
Double Jeopardy: The MLA formatted paper should be stapled at this degree angle.
What is 45 degrees?
400
Frederick Douglass learned about the dangerous idea of ______ when reading newspapers and The Colombia Orator.
What is Abolition.
500
Left and right margins should contain this much space: And top and bottom margins should contain:
What is 1" margins all around.
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! Cite this in a Works Cited: "Shakespeare's Sister" by Virginia Woolf. pg 47-51. Reading the World: Ideas that Matter. Editor: Michael Austin. Published 2015 by W.W. Norton & Company in New York. Edition 3
Woolf, Virginia. "Shakespeare's Sister." Reading the World: Ideas that Matter, edited by Michael Austin, W.W. Norton, 2015, pp. 47-51.
500
Find the error: "Why should I eat healthy and exercise?," Phillip asked.
No comma after the question mark.
500
Correctly cite this: A web page that is a poem called "The Burn" by Naomi Shihab Nye. It was published in 1952 on the website Split this Rock. The website is www.splitthisrock.org/poetry-database/poem/the-burn.
Nye, Naomi Shihab. “The Burn.” Split This Rock, 1952, www.splitthisrock.org/poetry-database/poem/the-burn. Accessed 8 Dec. 2016.
500
"To be generous with one's own possessions is quite different from being generous with those of posterity." Who is the author, and what is the title, of this quote?
What is Garrett Hardin's "Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor"