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Name: Dr. Michelle Brown / English 102 and 209 / rev. Spring 2016

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MLA FORMAT QUIZ Directions: Circle the letter that designates the correctly formatted example in each question below. Use the MLA Handbook. Due: at the beginning of class on the date listed on the syllabus. 1. First Page Format (assume oneinch margins) a)

Janet R. Jones ENG 236 12/19/2002

There has always been a place for women in British Romanticism, but not necessarily a place they would want to inhabit. Eighteenth century women writers endured critical and public ridicule and apathy…

b)

Janet R. Jones ENG 236 12/19/2002

British Romanticism and the (Dis)Placing of Women

There has always been a place for women in British Romanticism, but not necessarily a place they would want to inhabit. Eighteenth century women writers endured critical and public ridicule and apathy…

c)

Janet R. Jones

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Professor Simth 19 December 2002 British Romanticism and the (Dis)Placing of Women There has always been a place for women in British Romanticism, but not necessarily a place they would want to inhabit. Eighteenth century women writers endured critical and public…

d)

Janet R. Jones

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Professor Smith ENG 236 19 December 2002 British Romanticism and the (Dis)Placing of Women There has always been a place for women in British Romanticism, but not necessarily a place they would want to inhabit. Eighteenth century women writers endured critical and public ridicule and apathy…


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2. First Mention of a Work: InText Citation a) In “Irregular Verses,” Dorothy Wordsworth claims she has not become a poet for “fear that elder heads might blame” her for attempting to enter an intellectual community she is not privileged, as a female, to join (65). b) Dorothy claims she has not become a poet for “fear that elder heads might blame” (line 65) her for attempting to enter an intellectual community she is not privileged, as a female, to join. c) In “Irregular Verses,” Dorothy Wordsworth claims she has not become a poet for “fear that elder heads might blame” her for attempting to enter an intellectual community she is not privileged, as a female, to join. d) Dorothy Wordsworth claims she has not become a poet for “fear that elder heads might blame” (P. 123) her for attempting to enter an intellectual community she is not privileged, as a female, to join.

3. Second (or later) Mention of a Work: InText Citation a) Caroline Frankenstein finds economic value in Elizabeth’s beauty: “her hair was the brightest living gold, and, despite the poverty of her clothing, seemed to set a crown of distinction on her head.” (p. 79) b) Caroline Frankenstein finds economic value in Elizabeth’s beauty: “her hair was the brightest living gold, and, despite the poverty of her clothing, seemed to set a crown of distinction on her head” (79). c) Caroline Frankenstein finds economic value in Elizabeth’s beauty: “her hair was the brightest living gold, and, despite the poverty of her clothing, seemed to set a crown of distinction on her head.” 1 __________________________________ Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. The Norton Anthology of British Literature. Vol. 2 of 2. 7th ed. M. H. Abrams, Gen. Ed. New York: Norton, 2000. Page 79. 1

d) Caroline Frankenstein finds economic value in Elizabeth’s beauty: “her hair was the brightest living gold, and, despite the poverty of her clothing, seemed to set a crown of distinction on her head” (Shelley, Frankenstein. Page 79).

4. Block Quotations: Prose a)

In direct castigation of the Revolution’s failure to uphold the Revolutionary ideals of universality, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote in A Vindication of the Rights of Women:

Block quote indented one inch, left margin only.

But if women are to be excluded, without having a voice, from a participation of the natural rights of mankind, prove first, to ward off the charge of injustice and inconsistency, that they want reason, else this flaw in your NEW CONSTITUTION will ever show that man must, in some shape, act like a tyrant…. Let there be no coercion established in society, and the common law of gravity prevailing, the sexes will fall into their proper places. (17, 18, emphasis in original) As Wollstonecraft criticizes the French Revolution’s failure to dismantle the patriarchy, Mary Shelley and Dorothy Wordsworth later propose that British Romanticism has failed in this way as well.

Name: Dr. Michelle Brown / English 102 and 209 / rev. Spring 2016 b)

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Block quote italicized and indented one inch, both margins.

But if women are to be excluded, without having a voice, from a participation of the natural rights of mankind, prove first, to ward off the charge of injustice and inconsistency, that they want reason, else this flaw in your NEW CONSTITUTION will ever show that man must, in some shape, act like a tyrant…. Let there be no coercion established in society, and the common law of gravity prevailing, the sexes will fall into their proper places. (pages 17, 18) As Wollstonecraft criticizes the French Revolution’s failure to dismantle the patriarchy, Mary Shelley and Dorothy Wordsworth later propose that British Romanticism has failed in this way as well.

c)

In direct castigation of the Revolution’s failure to uphold the Revolutionary ideals of universality, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote in A Vindication of the Rights of Women, “But if women are to be excluded, without

Quotations under five entire lines are not blocked.

having a voice, from a participation of the natural rights of mankind, prove first, to ward off the charge of injustice and inconsistency, that they want reason, else this flaw in your NEW CONSTITUTION will ever show that man must, in some shape, act like a tyrant…. Let there be no coercion established in society, and the common law of gravity prevailing, the sexes will fall into their proper places” (17, 18, emphasis in original). As Wollstonecraft criticizes the French Revolution’s failure to dismantle the patriarchy, Mary Shelley and Dorothy Wordsworth later propose that British Romanticism has failed in this way as well.

d)


Block quote indented ½ inch, left margin only.

But if women are to be excluded, without having a voice, from a participation of the natural rights of mankind, prove first, to ward off the charge of injustice and inconsistency, that they want reason, else this flaw in your NEW CONSTITUTION will ever show that man must, in some shape, act like a tyrant…. Let there be no coercion established in society, and the common law of gravity prevailing, the sexes will fall into their proper places (17, 18). Another way Wollstonecraft displays her feminist agenda is through her deliberate use of “feminine” gendered rhetorical techniques. If contemporary ideology considered women’s writing to be disjointed and…

5. Two to Three Lines of Poetry: InText Citation (assume second or later mention) a) In “Thoughts on My SickBed,” Dorothy Wordsworth chronicles several images that later reappear in William’s published poetry and, “[r]ecalling thy prophetic words, Bard, Brother”, reestablishes her ownership of them.

b) In “Thoughts on My SickBed,” Dorothy Wordsworth chronicles several images that later reappear in William’s published poetry and, “[r]ecalling thy prophetic words, Bard, Brother” (page 669), reestablishes her ownership of them.


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c) In “Thoughts on My SickBed,” Dorothy Wordsworth chronicles several images that later reappear in William’s published poetry and, “[r]ecalling thy prophetic words, / Bard, Brother” (4748), reestablishes her ownership of them. d) Dorothy chronicles several images that later reappear in William’s published poetry and, “Recalling thy prophetic words,/Bard, Brother” (Wordsworth, page 669, lines 4748), reestablishes her ownership of them. 6. Block Quotes: Poetry a)

John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn” begins with the speaker directing a flurry of questions to the urn: What leaffring’d legend haunts about thy shape

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Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales or Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy (lines 510)? Yet, in the end, this “still unravished bride of quietness” (line 1) gives neither the speaker nor the reader any clear answers.

b)

John Keats’s “Ode to a Grecian Urn” begins with the speaker directing a flurry of questions to the urn: What leaffring’d legend haunts about thy shape

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Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales or Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? (page 851). Yet, in the end, this “still unravished bride of quietness” (page 851) gives neither the speaker nor the reader any clear answers.

c) Blocking quotes from poetry is optional.

John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn” begins with the speaker directing a flurry of questions to the urn: “What leaffring’d legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales or Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?” (ll. 510). Yet, in the end, this “still unravished bride of quietness” (l. 1) gives neither the speaker nor the reader any clear answers.

Name: Dr. Michelle Brown / English 102 and 209 / rev. Spring 2016 d)

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John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn” begins with the speaker directing a flurry of questions to the urn: What leaffring’d legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both,

Block quote indented one inch.

In Tempe or the dales or Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? (510) Yet, in the end, this “still unravished bride of quietness” (1) gives neither the speaker nor the reader any clear answers.

7. Work(s) Cited List Format (assume oneinch margins) a)

Works Cited Wordsworth, Dorothy. Irregular Verses. British Literature 17801830. Ed. Anne K. Mellor and Richard E. Matlak. Fort Worth, 1996. Pages 66769. Shelley, Mary. “Frankenstein”. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Volume 2, 7th Edition. Ed. M.H. Abrams. New York, 2000. pages 9071034.

b) No works cited list.

c)

Jones 5 Works Cited Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. The Norton Anthology of British Literature. Vol. 2 of 2. 7th ed. M. H. Abrams, gen. ed. New York: Norton, 2000. 9071034. Print. Wordsworth, Dorothy. “Irregular Verses.” British Literature 17801830. Ed. Anne K. Mellor and Richard E. Matlak. Fort Worth: Harcourt, 1996. 66769. Print.

d)

Jones 5 Works Cited Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. The Norton Anthology of British Literature. Vol. 2 th of 2. 7 ed. M. H. Abrams, gen. ed. New York: Norton, 2000. 9071034.


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8. When citing an online source, where do you provide its URL? a) In the intext citation. b) In the list of Works Cited. c) Nowhere.

EXTRA CREDIT: You may earn up to three extra credit points for identifying mistakes in the wrong answers on this quiz. (Most wrong answers feature several mistakes). You will earn one extra credit point (up to 3) for each mistake that you identify correctly in the space below. Question # , letter Name one thing wrong with it.

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