ENG III Myth Assignment Checklist for Students
Put a check next to the following when you’ve completed the item:
______ Font/Structure: Times New Roman, 12 point type, double spaced paper!!!!!!!!
Heading should be single spaced.
_____ Use Vivid Adjectives: use vivid adjective words in your myth (ex. sparkling green
eyes, azure blue skin, etc.)
_____Use Strong Verbs: (ex. instead of “ran” use something like “galloped”)
_____Creation Aspect - Myth Needs to Explain How Some Aspect of Human
Nature/World Came to be: (ex. birth, death, hurricanes, earthquakes, fire, etc.)
_____Myth Needs to Involve Some Supernatural Being/Event: Think Zeus giving birth
from his knee, or the earth rotating in the opposite direction.
_____Use Authentic Sounding Names and Locations
_____You Need a Conflict
_____You Need Correct Spelling & Grammar Usage and Lots of Vivid Words: NOUNS,
NOUNS, NOUNS and really superb ADJECTIVES to describe your nouns! Make them
strong and exciting!!!
_____You Need Dialogue: Dialogue is spoken language between two speakers (characters).
See below for correct dialogue punctuation.
These are the rules that must be followed for writing dialogue: Every time the speakers
change, a new PARAGRAPH begins.
Here are examples of correct dialogue punctuation.
Bill replied, “No thanks, I’d rather listen to music.”
“No thanks, I’d rather listen to music,” Bill replied.
“No thanks,” Bill replied, “I’d rather listen to music.”
*Please note the placement of quotation marks, commas, and periods.