Thursday, March 9, 2017

Mimicry piece - DUE Tuesday

Authors we’ve read, viewed, or listened to:

Will McAvoy (not the author, but the character), Maya Angelou, Frederick Douglas, Stephanie Ericsson, Lars Eighner, Shannon Cason (audio piece), Sherman Alexie, Plato, JFK (speech), Queen Elizabeth I (speech), Virginia Woolf, Annie Dillard, George Orwell, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jonathan Swift, The Onion article, Marie Winn, Sarah Vowell, Eric Schlosser, Steven Johnson, Steven Colbert, Nancy Mairs, E.B. White

  1. Pick one whose style you found interesting.

Revisit the piece.   Identify what makes this piece unique.

Mimic the style in a two to three-paragraph piece.


   2.  When you are finished, polish the piece, and then identify which devices or stylistic

        flourishes you relied on in your mimicry.  

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