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
- 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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