Author Imitation Assignment
Your task is to write a short story in the style of one of the major 4 Modern American authors we have studied this semester. You have randomly been assigned your author based on your last name. If you want to switch with someone with another author, you both must come in and get my formal permission to switch authors.
The alphabet breakdown:
A-Dough: Hemingway
Doug-Kell: Faulker
Kl-Pon: Fitzgerald
Pr-Zu: Steinback
Your short story should be between 3-4 pages in length (hopefully closer to 3.) You must imitate your author in regards to:
- Subject matter
- Setting
- Characters
- Themes
- Style (diction, syntax, figurative language, etc.)
Other students will be reading your story and attempting to guess which author you are imitating. Therefore, give your story a real (and hopefully significant title) as opposed to calling it “Hemingway imitation story.”
