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Modern Liposis
POS Posse
Shakespeare at Night
Parallel
Say What?
100
The list of sources that appears at the end of a paper or essay in MLA format.
What is Works Cited?
100
Person, place, thing, idea, or state of being.
What is a noun?
100
He said, "Beware the Ides of March!"
Who is the Soothsayer?
100
Change this sentence to reflect parallel structure: Oscar liked reading books, attending plays, and to search for antiques.
What is "searching for antiques"?
100
Author who wrote, "There was a sound of thunder..."
Who is Ray Bradbury?
200
The correct order for listing sources in Works Cited.
What is alphabetical by author's last name or, if there is no author, title?
200
These words modify verbs and tell more about the action, as in when, at what speed, how frequently, etc.
What are adverbs?
200
Character who said, "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings."
Who is Cassius?
200
When I graduate from high school, I plan to got a job, go travelling around the world, got married, and then I will find a suitable mate and undergo holy matrimony.
What is When I graduate from high school, I plan to get a job, travel the world, and get married.
200
He wrote, "Never shall I forget the little faces of the children whose bodies I saw turn into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky..."
Who is Elie Wiesel?
300
What is the order in which elements of an MLA heading should appear on the first page of the paper?
What is your name, instructor's name, class name, and date by number day, month, and year (no commas)?
300
These little words occur at the beginning of phrases and often indicate position or location of nouns in a sentence.
What are prepositions?
300
"Brutus is an honorable man" is an example of what rhetorical mode?
What is ethos?
300
Change to make it parallel: Bob performs his tasks quickly, willingly, and with accuracy.
What is accurately?
300
She wrote a memoir that included the story "Fish Cheeks."
Who is Amy Tan?
400
The writer of the paper includes a direct quote from a movie review. What is the first word that will appear in the Works Cited listing?
What is reviewer's last name?
400
These words connect clauses to make compound, complex, or compound-complex sentences.
What are conjunctions?
400
Elie Wiesel survived what catastrophic historical event?
What is the Holocaust?
400
Change to make it parallel: Kanye West's problem is not that he earns too little money, but spending it so foolishly.
What is "but that he spends it so foolishly"?
400
She wrote a memoir about the differences in attitude and culture between herself and her father.
Who is Sandra Cisneros?
500
The word for the academic crime that is committed when a writer steals someone else's ideas or words and presents them as his or her original work.
What is plagiarism?
500
These words express emotion or add emphasis in a sentence.
What are interjections?
500
The literary genre or form in which Elie Wiesel's Night is written.
What is memoir?
500
Maricela, dressed for prom, came down the stairs, was smiling at her date, then she trips and is falling into his arms.
What is "came down the stairs, smiled at her date, then tripped and fell into his arms"?
500
Poet who wrote, "There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling all around..."
Who is Sara Teasdale?