MLA Style & Formatting

"MLA" stands for Mandatory Language Association.

• True

• False

In the MLA header, whose name is below YOUR name?

• Your principal's name

• The author's name for the piece of literature you are analyzing

• Your teacher's name

The correct format for writing today's date on the MLA header would be...

• August 25, 2020

• 25 August 2020

• 2020 August 25

• 8/25/2020

Everything in your MLA-formatted paper should be ______-spaced.

MLA in-text citations include which two pieces of information?

• Year of publication

• Page number

• Author's last name

• City of publication

A block quote is _______ 4 lines.

• longer than

• shorter than

A block quote should be indented 1/2 inch from the margin.

• True

• False

What is the name of the ... that means you left out, or omitted, part of the quotation?

• elephant

• elliptical

• ellipsis

• elementary

What do you put around information that you added inside a quote?

• ( )

• [ ]

• < >

• + +

If you don't have an author for a quote, you don't have to include a citation.

• True

• False