MLA Style (writing)
The size of font, style of font, and spacing required in an MLA paper.
What is 12pt Times New Roman, double spaced?
Name the literary device
Silver sand seems soft!
What is alliteration?
This is who loses a glass slipper in Cinderella.
Who is Cinderella?
This is what the first sentence of an essay is called.
What is a hook or opening sentence?
These are the sports you can play at Veritas.
What are soccer, basketball, and baseball/softball?
This is what belongs in the upper lefthand portion of the first page of an essay.
What is a heading?
Name the literary device
There were at least one million people at her birthday party.
What is hyperbole?
This is how many dwarves there are in Snow White.
What is seven?
This is what belongs at the end of an introduction and tells you what the whole paper will be about.
What is a thesis statement?
This is the class you can take at Veritas where you do activities outside and learn about being a leader.
What is Go Leader 1?
This is what belongs in the upper righthand corner of each page of an essay.
What is a header?
Name the literary device
Her smile was like the brightest star I had ever seen.
What is a simile?
This is what stood out about Jonas and the Giver in the story The Giver.
What are blue eyes?
This punctuation can go between two complete sentences. It is not a period.
What is a semicolon?
This is a group you can be involved in at Veritas and it involves singing.
What is worship team?
This is the name of the page where you include all of your resources.
What is a Work's Cited page?
Name the literary device
She is my sunshine!
What is a metaphor?
These are what come to Scrooge to show him the error of his ways in A Christmas Carol.
What are the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future?
Sentences should not begin with these in formal writing.
What is a conjunction?
Veritas students do this at the beginning of every school year to help raise funds for the school.
What is a walkathon?
This is how you format and cite a quote.
Lead up to the quote, use quotation marks, follow the quotation marks with parentheses including the author's name and page number, then end the sentence with a period.
Name the literary device.
It's raining cats and dogs outside!
What is an idiom?
This is who Aslan represents in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
Who is Jesus?
This acronym makes up body paragraphs in an essay.
What is ICE?
Introduce
Cite
Explain
This is something that seniors at Veritas are allowed to do during lunch.
What are leave and go out to lunch?