Wednesday, December 12, 2012

practice exam

Final exam practice questions:
T or F:
1.       The word Hamlet should be italicized when it refers to the play but not italicized when it refers to the character.
2.       Two part titles should use a colon.
3.       Two part titles should mention the work or a character from the work.
4.       Two part titles should give away the essay writer’s main point in a concise format.
5.       Fragments can generally be fixed by attaching the non-sentence to the sentence before it, through the use of a comma.
6.       Final periods should go inside quotation marks, not after the last one.
7.       Correct the errors in the following sentence: “
8.       MLA instructs us to place the comma after the last quotation mark: “To be or not to be”.
9.       Use two unspaced hyphens--to make a dash.
10.    (Shakespeare 1.2.20-25) this means Shakespeare wrote it and it occurs in Act 1, secne 2, lines 20-25.