MLA Quizlet (Long)

What does MLA suggest how elements should be listed in order?

1. Author. 2. Title of source 3. Publisher 4. Publication date 5. Location Said, Edward W. Culture and Imperialism. Knopf, 1994. New York.

MLA format should contain size ________________ point font.

12

What indicates the end of a line of verse and the beginning of the next line?

A slash mark ( / )

What do you have to do in terms of writing the location of the citation?

Give only the first city listed for the place of publication and do not list state names

Short poems should be ________________ in MLA format.

In quotation marks

Which is TRUE of a Works Cited page?

Indent the second and all subsequent lines five spaces "Work(s) Cited" is centered, without quotes or underlining

Books should be ________________ in MLA format.

Italicized

What does the acronym MLA stand for?

Modern Language Association

Identify the order of the title page in MLA format

Name, Teacher's Name, Class, Date

What tense should be used in essays?

Present

How should an in text citation look like when documenting one author by name in a text, which is correct, when the author's name is "Smith" and the page number is "107."

Smith said, "this" (107).

What is the BEST, most economical and reliable, place to find an MLA style guide?

The Owl at Purdue

To cite an anonymous source in text, what information should be included in parentheses?

The shortened form of the title and the page number

What type of font does MLA Prefer?

Times New Roman

How should dialogue within quoted text look like?

Use single quotations inside double quotations to indicate from Frye's book, "the owl said, 'hey' and then he" (15). or From frye's book, "the owl said, 'hey"' (15).

What can you use around words you add for clarification within a quotation?

brackets [ ]

In text citations always go at the......

end of the sentence

When should block quotes be used?

more than four lines of prose or three lines of verse (poetry)

What is a parenthetical citation?

when the author's name is NOT in the sentence "This is this" (Frye 17).

What is an MLA in-text citation?

when the author's name is used in the text of the sentence. "Frye said......."this" (17).

If the text to be quoted is "The test is almost over" and the author's name is "Slucher" and the page number is "34", what should the parenthetical citation look like?

"The test is almost over" (Slucher 34).

In MLA documentation, how should the following parenthetical reference (in-text citation) appear if there is only one author's name, "Barrett" ,and the page number is "17"?

(Barrett 17)

In general, how is the Works Cited list arranged?

Alphabetically, by author's last name

Quotes are generally introduced with ______________. For example, " Frye said ________ "this" (15).

Comma Frye said _ , _ "this" (15).

How should an MLA formatted paper be spaced?

Double

MLA requires the first page of your paper to be

Double-spaced with a heading in the left corner