A question that makes the reader think of the answer based on what they know. Ex: Do you think Anne Frank is a girl all girls should look up to? A question that makes the reader think of the answer based on what they know.
MLA is first and foremost a set of guidelines for including parenthetical information to cite sources. It focuses on author information when giving credit to sources, so most citation involves using the names of the author or authors of any source.
Each entry in the list of works cited is composed of facts common to most worksâthe MLA core elements. They are assembled in a specific order. The concept of containers is crucial to MLA style. When the source being documented forms part of a larger whole, the larger whole can be thought of as a container that holds the source. For example, a short story may be contained in an anthology. The short story is the source, and the anthology is the container.